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2.5.1 a A verb-forming suffix -ize occuring originally in loanwords from Greek that have entered English through Latin or French. Within English -ize is added to adjectives and nouns to form transitive verbs with the general meaning "to render, make, convert into, give a specialized character, to subject to" or intransitive verbs to denote a change of state or behaviour, etc.

Look them up the dictionary and state their general meaning.

2.5.2. a Read the extract and fill in propositions wherever necessary.

b. Discuss the text.

c. Give the text an appropriate heading. 

The best way to understand strategic human resources management is ... (1) ... comparing it ...(2)... human resource management. Human resource management (HRM) focuses ...(3)... recruiting and hiring the best employees and providing them ...(4)... the compensation, benefits, training, and development they need to be successful ...(5)... an organization. However, strategic human resource management takes these responsibilities one step further ...(6)... akigning them ...(7)... the goals ...(8)... other departments and overall organizational goals. HR departments that practice strategic management also ensure that all ...(9)... their objectives are aligned ...(10)... the mission, vision, values, and goals ...(11) ... the hrganization ...(12)... which they are a part. Strategic human resource management is the practice ...(13)... attracting, developing, rewarding, and retaining employees ...(14)... the benefit ...(15)... both the employees as individuals and the organization as a whole. HR departments that practice strategic human resource management interact ...(16)... other departments ,,,(17)... an organization. As a result, the goals ...(18)... a human resource department reflect and support the goals ...(19)... the rest ...(20)... the organization. Strategic HRM is seen as a partner ... organizational success, as opposed ...(21)... a necessity ...(22)... legal compliance or compensation. Strategic HRM utilize the talent and opportunity ...(23)... the human resources department to make other departments stronger and more effective.

2.5.3. a Complete the text with the following words from the box and fill in the grid below.

b. Discuss the text.

In Human Resource Champions (1996), David U Irich argues that there are four HR roles: strategic player, ....(1)..., employee champion, and change agent. According to Langbert, in the new economy, there are ...(2)... The strategic player and ...(3)... roles suggest that HR managers need to colloborate with both line managers and ...(4)... . They need to think about and ...(5)... that match culture, ...(6)..., and organizational structure with the aim of supporting top management's ...(7).... .  Langbert provides examples: In cost-competitive firms like Wal-Mart, HR needs to think about ...(8)... In the differentiation and focues companies ...(9)..., HR needs to help identify training, ...(10)..., and performance management systems that support ...(11)... to innovate, focus on customer needs, improve processes, and ...(12)...

2.5.4 a. Read the text, ignoring the missing parts.

Performance measurements are a good way to track your progress, but how do you manage the results? This is where ...(1)... Performance measurement and performance management may sound similar, but ...(2)... Performance measurement deals specifically with performance measures. ...(3)... Typically good performance measures cover a wide variety of criteria, like: financial measures, customer measures, process measures, and people measures. These measures let you know whether you're on track to achieve your strategy and accomplish your objectives.And that's incredibly helpful information - you can build some great reports around this information andshare those reports around this information and share those reports across your organization. ...(4)... To better explain what I mean, let's look at performance management. While performance measurement asks, "How do we track the progress of the strategy we've put in place?", performance management asks, ...(5)... This is a subtle (but important) distinction.

b. Look at the missing parts A-H and fit them in the gaps. There is one extra you don't need.

1. But frankly, that doesn't get you far enough.
2. These are the quantitative indicators you put in place to track the progress against your strategy.
3. What the five key action steps that will help you?
4. performance management comes in.
5. while they are complementary to one another, they are entirely separate strategic practices.
6. "How do we manage the strategy we've put in place?"

2.5.5. a. Look these words up in the dictionary: bonus, compensation, incentive, award, reward. Match the words with their meanings. Fill in the grade.

b. Fill in the blanks with the correct form of the following words: measurement, assessment, monitoring, estimation, gauging.

1. ... is defined as the act of measuring or the size of something.
2. ... is the process of considering all the information about a situation or a person and making a judgement.
3. ... is watching and checking a situation carefully for a period of time to discover something about it.
4. In my ... a lot of other banks are going to have the same problem.
5. ... is to find a number that shows the amount of something. A ... unit is a standard quantity used to express a physical quantity.
6. The impact of all this propaganda on the staff is beyond ...
7. If you disagree with out ..., you have the right to appeal.
8. The diploma will be awarded based on a final exam and continuous ... throughout the course.
9. The new findings suggest that women are obsessed with ... their cholesterol levels.
10. There is considerable debate in the academic literature over the relevance in ... respondents' solutions to these types or risks.
11. ... is a guess or calculation about the cost, size, value, etc. of something
12. With these simple ... (the meter for length, the kilogram for mass, the second for time), we can measure nearly everything in the world.
13. The lack of systematic age ... appeared to reflect an unofficial consensus which places age at the bottom of the equality agenda.
14. Leaving alone the question as to why this might happen, it seems useful to also produce some precise quantitative ... of such sespected exaggerations.
15. Much of the responsibility for tax ... was passed to the taxpayer.
16. ... is the assignment of a number to a characteristic of an object or event, which can be compared with other objects or events ...
17. The CIA were accused of ... or secretly listening to the president's phone calls.
18. They have asked for an independetn safety .... of the factory.

c. Scan the text again and find the English equivalents for the following:

• Средства анализа данных персонала
• Поиск в данных скрытых закономерностей
• Просеивать, тщательно сортировать
• Динамические характеристики и события
• Машинное самообучение
• Распознавать закономерности
• Искусственный интеллект
• Инструменты поглощения новой информации
• Дерево принятия решений
• Делать прогноз на основе
• анализа имеющихся данных
• Узел древовидной структуры
• Прогностические НR аналитики
• Специалист по теории и методам анализа данных
• Язык программирования R (для статистической обработки данных и работы и графикой)
• Система с открытым исходным кодом
• Динамическая таблица
• Структурированные и неструктурированные данные
• Контролируемое машинное самообучение
• Результаты обработки, выходные данные
• Прогнозировать добровольную текучесть персонала
• Выделение кластеров с общими признаками
• Иметь что-то общее
• Построить прогностический алгоритм
• Данные режима обучения
• Данные контрольного примера
• Принципиальное упущение
• Переобучение искусственной нейронной сети, чрезмерная аппроксимация, лжевзаимосвязь

d. Look these words up in the dictionary and find the odd ones out:

1. benchmark 

2. criterion 

3. grade 

4. measure 

5. standard 

6. touchstone 

7. yardstick 

8. aberration

9. deviation 

e. Look these words up in the dictionary and find the odd ones out.

1. performance 

2. presentation

3. staging 

4. execution 

5. concert 

6. achievement 

7. fulfilment 

8. completion 

9. accomplishment 

10. discharge

f. Look these words up in the dictionary and fond the odd ones out.

1. strategic 

2. planned 

3. deliberate 

4. calculated 

5. well thought out 

6. prudent 

7. shrewd 

8. clever 

9. tactical