新剑桥商务英语(高级)单词总结.doc

1. autonomous: independent, able to take decisions without consulting a higher authority 2. decentralization: dividing an organization into decision-making units that are not centrally controlled. 3. function: a specific activity in a company, e.g. production, marketing, finance 4. hierarchy: system of authority with different levels, one above the other. 5. line authority: the power to give instructions to people at the level below in the chain of command 6. report to: to be responsible to someone and to take instructions from him or her 7. subordinates: people working under someone else in a hierarch 8. industrial belt: an area with lots of industrial companies, around the edge of a city 9. wealth: the products of economic activity 10. productivity: the amount of output produced (in a certain period, using a certain number of inputs 11. corporate ethos: a company’s ways of working and thinking 12. collaboration: working together and sharing ideas 13. insulated or isolated: alone, placed in a position away from others 14. fragmentation: breaking something up into pieces 15. motivate :To inspire, to induce, to give a reason or incentive to someone to do something. 16. employee: A person employed by someone else, working for money. 17. labor relations: Relations between employers and employees, managers and workers, management and unions. 18. responsibility: Having control of something as part of your job 19. wages: Money paid (per hour or day or week) to manual workers 20. salary: A fixed regular payment made by employers, usually, for professional or office work. 21. benefits or perks: Advantages that come with a job, apart from wages or salary. 22. promotion: To be raised to a higher rank or better job. 23.job security: Knowing that there is little risk of losing one’s job. 24. skilled: Having particular abilities, acquired by training. 25. subcontractor : Any company that provides goods or services for another one 26. component : Any of the pie