2011商务英语中级口语精讲班讲义第一讲63
1. Purchasing: how to evaluate and select new products
2. Purchasing: how to maintain good relationship with suppliers
3. Purchasing: how to ensure that stock control systems are run effectively
1: inventory forecast. 2: keep good inventory practices and audits. 3: use of information technology.
4. Project management: the importance of teamwork for the effective management of projects
5. Project management: how to ensure inter-departmental cooperation on new projects
6. Technology: the importance of computer skills for the workplace of the future
7. Technology: the importance of training staff in how to use new technology when introducing it into the workplace
8. Technology: how to plan for the impact of new technology on a company
1: education and training. 2: awareness. 3. good staffing decisions
9. Health and Safety: the importance to a company of having a health and safety policy
10. Health and Safety: the importance of ensuring that all staff are aware of the need for health and safety procedures
11. Health and Safety: the importance of a safe working environment for maintaining staff morale
12. Health and Safety: how to develop a responsible attitude among staff to the health and safety requirement of a company
13. Travel: the importance of being aware of differences in appropriate behavior in other cultures
14. Travel: how to choose a good hotel when on business trip
--It is also important to consider the location. Some people like to be lodged in hotels downtown in order to facilitate business dealings. Other prefer airport hotel as it is easier to come and go.
--Facilities in the hotel is also an important factor for some businessmen. Some prefer a fitness club, a clinic in the hotel they stay at. Others even desire spa or Jacuzzi if possible. But the more pragmatic business people will want a business center in the hotel, where they can fax and copy documents. Some better hotels even offer wireless internet connect in their rooms. But of course that comes at a high price tag.