国家开放大学电大《管理英语4》形考作业参考答案.docx

《管理英语4》形考作业参考答案 作业一 试题1 —Is it possible for you to work out the plan tonight? I, 11 do that. 1 think so. I* d love to. 试题2 —Could you give us a speech on management functions some day this week? That* a good i dea No, I already have plans T, d 1 ove to, but I* m busy this week 试题3 Even the best continually seek ways to their skills. sharp sharpener sharpen 试题4 The Human Resource Managing Department at Honda is given specific instructions employ the best possible workers. how to on what to on how to 试题5 The responsibilities in handbook that managers have to be concerned with efficiency and effectiveness in the work process. imply indicate interrupt 试题6 二、阅读理解：根据文章内容，判断正误（共50分） Who Killed Nokia? Nokia executives attempted to explain its fall from the top of the smartphone pyramid with three factors: 1) that Nokia was technically inferior to Apple, 2) that the company was complacent and 3) that its leaders didn* t see the disruptive iPhone coming. It has also been argued that it was none of the above. Nokia lost the smartphone battle because of divergent shared fears among the coirpany* s middle and top managers which led to company-wide inertia that left it powerless to respond to Apple* s game. Based on the findings of an in-depth investigation and 76 interviews with top and middle managers, engineers and external experts, the researchers discovered a culture of fear due to temperamental leaders and that frightened middle managers were scared of tel1ing the truth. The fear that froze the company came from two places. First, the company* s top managers had a terrifying reputation. Some members of Nokia* s board and top management were described as extremely temperamentalw and they regularly shouted at people at the top of their lungs . It was very difficult to tell them things they didn, t want to hear. Secondly, top managers were afraid of the external environment and not meeting their quarterly targets, which also impacted how they treated middle managers. To