What are your career goals?

2. What are your career goals? • To find a job. • To have an interesting and creative job. • To be independent • To be an important person... To enjoy everything I do. • I’d like to work in a bank. / To work in tourism. • I’d like to work in a bank, as a financial manager. • To show I am the best in what I do and to run my own firm. • To travel and make money. • To work for a big corporation and have a big salary. • To become a well-educated Croatian citizen... a doctor of science. • To become a businessman, have a lot of money & wear a suit. • To become an expert economist. • No specific goals... Just want the world to be a better place. • Just to do what I love. No point in being rich and unhappy.

3. What are your career goals? 1 To find a job. 2 To have an interesting and creative job. 3 To be independent 4 To be an important person... To enjoy everything I do. 5 I’d like to work in a bank. / To work in tourism. 6 I’d like to work in a bank, as a financial manager. 7 To show I am the best in what I do and to run my own firm. 8 To travel and make money. 9 To work for a big corporation and have a big salary. 10 To become a well-educated Croatian citizen... a doctor of science. 11 To become a businessman, have a lot of money & wear a suit. 12 To become an expert economist. 13 No specific goals... Just want the world to be a better place. 14 Just to do what I love. No point in being rich and unhappy.

4. Some of the motives mentioned: • Financial considerations: 8, 9, 11 • Prestige: 4, 7, 8, 12 • Wishing to fulfill your potential: 2, 7, 10, 12 • Job security: 1, 3 • To make a difference:13 • To love/enjoy what you do: 14 What is missing?

5. MANAGEMENT revised (MK:Unit 2) • What are managers generally in charge of? (MK) • What is integrating all about? (MK) • How many pieces of advice are provided by the two quotes on the following slide?

6. PEOPLE MANAGEMENT What advice is provided in the quotes below? «The secret of good business is good people who are given a lot of trust and freedom as well as the right to make mistakes.” (Sir R. Branson) «If we always hire people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. If we always hire people who are bigger than we are, we shall become a company of giants.» (D. Ogilvy)

7. WORK AND MOTIVATION

8. How do managers motivate their staff? • good pay (salary/wages, bonus) • career opportunities (training, work experience, promotion) • perks • good working conditions (working hours, work environment) • other non-financial benefits (challenging responsibilities, personal fulfillment) More sources of motivation mentioned in MK? (p.15)

9. Good remuneration Good working relations Good working conditions Job security The possibility of promotion A challenging job Responsibility Contact with people A belief in what the organization does A job ... you can make a difference Opportunities to travel Long holidays / vacations

10. Good r_m_ _ _ration(compensation) Good working r_ _ations(with your line manager...) Good working conditions Job se_ _ _ _ty (little chance of losing your job) The possibility of p_ _ _ _ _ _ _n (to get ahead) A ch_l_ _ _ _ _ _g job Responsibility Contact with people A b_ _ _ _f in what the organization does A job in which you can make a difference O_ _ ortunities to travel Long holidays / vacations

11. Discussion: Attitudes to work (p.15) • Which statements do you agree with? • Can they be divided in two groups? • Is this discussion applicable to students? Rephrase the sentences. • Relate the discussion to the texts in MK (pp.16).

12. MK: p 16Words in context? • Outline • Assume • Consequently • Reward • Incentives • Pay rise • Bonuses • Incapable

13. Words in context? • Applicable • Skilled professionals • Knowledge workers • lay foundations • burden of responsibility • authoritarian • progressive

14. Fill in the missing words (MK, p.16) • Theory X 1 that people dislike work, and that they have to be closely 2, and both 3 and 4 with incentives such as a pay 5 or 6. • Theory Y 7 that most people have a 8 need to work, which may be more 9 to skilled 10.

15. Back to the text • What are the two types of workers mentioned in the text? • Who is Theory Y probably more applicable to? • What kind of needs does Theory X relate to? • What kind of needs does Theory Y relate to? • Find the paragraph which talks about Maslow’s “hierarchy of needs.”

16. HW: Write a paragraph comparing Theory X and Theory Y. Include a topic sentence, at least three different elements and a conclusion. Use linking words. You can take either of the two paths: E.g. 1: Whereas Theory X assumes that people are lazy, Theory Y assumes that people want to work. ... Furthermore, Theory X... while Theory Y ... E.g. 2: Theory X assumes that.... Moreover, it ... Finally, Theory X is... Theory Y, on the other hand, assumes that...

17. MK: p 17Words, words, words (MK:p.17) • Job security • Take for granted • Benefits • Sick pay • Unskilled workers • Repetitive jobs • Job rotation • Corporate culture

18. MK: p.17 - Notes on text SATISFIERS VS. MOTIVATORS -job …. - … jobs -good … relations - … jobs -good working … -… -good … -… -… such as: a) … pay -… b) paid … c) … MOTIVATION IN … JOBS? - … responsibilities - job … - shared … ( … culture)  Comprehension (p 18) & Vocabulary (p 19)