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There will usually be summaries or daily account tables for heavy oil, diesel oil, lubricating oil, and fresh water, which will be compiled()
Passage 3 ● Look at the statements below and at the summaries of five business books on the opposite page about recruitment.
● Which book summary(A, B, C, D or E)does each statement 1-8 refer to?
● For each statement 1-8, mark one letter(A, B, C, D or E)on your Answer Sheet.
● You will need to use some of these letters more than once.
● There is an example at the beginning (0).
1. The author of the book is a graduate from a famous university.
2. The book can also be helpful for job applicants.
3. People newly involved in recruitment may find this book particularly useful.
4. You may make use of the questions in the book to eliminate candidates who are not serious.
5. Companies would benefit a lot by acting on the advice given in the book.
6. Interview questions for various jobs and posts are offered in the book
7. The book is very informative, for it deals with questions more than hiring.
8. A good judgement of candidates’ personality is important in recruiting.
A
Hire With Your Head
Lou Adler president of the Power Hiring consulting and training company, provides a systematic approach for finding, interviewing and hiring the best candidate for a job. He emphasizes making an: objective assessment and, to this end, he provides techniques for overcoming first impressions. The book includes charts and checklists that highlight important points. This well-organized guide to effective hiring is highly recommended to company owners, human resource personnel and managers involved in the hiring process. Alert job seekers may also find it useful to learn what a good interview will demand.
B
Hiring the Best
Any manager with hiring authority knows that selecting the ‘right’ candidate for any position is a nerve-wracking task. Author Martin Yate’s basic book can help inexperienced managers hire effectively, although this useful primer on interviewing and hiring is a little wordy. Yates provides great detail about key steps, such as when to schedule a phone interview, what to ask and how to conduct an interview. He even provides numerous sample questions for each major job category, from entry level to management.
C
Ask the Right Questions, Hire the Best People
This book boasts of a list of questions designed to make your interviews effective in weeding out the pretenders and uncovering that dream hire. The book’s real value is in its list of interview questions, with accompanying comments on what answers you should be looking for. It seems impossible that you could read this book and not stumble over one question that makes you smile and tuck it away to spring later on some unsuspecting interviewee. This book will prove useful for human resource professionals or any manager charged with hiring.
D
Hiring and Keeping the Best People
This book covers a huge amount of valuable information about hiring and retaining a great work-force. If more companies followed its five-step hiring process, not only would talented employees face greater competition for their services, companies would get better staffers and the fit of workers to their jobs would improve. The book demonstrates an awareness of the realities of diversity in the modern workplace and the expectations employees have about work-life balance. This handy guide is clear and concise, and is highly recommended to anyone involved in the hiring and retention process.
E
How to Hire a Champion
David Snyder, a business consultant with a psychology graduate degree form Harvard, believes that managers must be able to evaluate applicants’ personality traits to hire the right people; His assertions are hard to dispute. His book is loaded with good advice, although the writing can get choppy and repetitive. Still, it is strongly believed Snyder provides solid, practical and useful information. When you think how hard it is to live with—or discard—an incorrect hire, you’ll want to be sure you take on the right people.
Passage 7 ● Look at the statements below and at the five short summaries on the opposite page about business books on leadership & management.
● Which book summary(A, B, C, D or E)does each statement 1-8 refer to?
● For each statement 1-8, mark one letter(A, B, C, D or E)on your Answer Sheet.
● You will need to use some of these letters more than once.
● There is an example at the beginning (0).
1. Real life experiences of the author and some others contribute to the formation of the points illustrated in this book.
2. After careful reading, readers may come to accept the author’s viewpoints on the subject discussed in this book.
3. This book mainly concerns the success story of a famous company.
4. This book appeals to human resources managers in that it offers them a positive way of managing people.
5. In this book, the author proposes a new system and introduces some ways of applying it in practice.
6. The author of this book illustrates that nowadays a new leader is often faced with great pressure.
7. This book covers leadership in many different areas.
8. Though the major points of this book are clear enough to be understood and applied, certain parts of it can be better written.
A
The New Boss
Taking over as the ‘new boss’ is never easy. Expectations run high, you have a limited time to make a good impression and the competitive pressure is severe. Peter Fischer identifies ‘seven building blocks of successful leadership transition’ to help you find your way. He devotes a chapter to each step, including lists of unexpected difficulties and easily-made mistakes, suggestions, questions and a summary. The last part of this book contains case studies that focus on different new boss’ situations. Fischer’s unembellished, straightforward style makes his concepts easy to understand and implement.
B
Discipline without Punishment
For CEOs, human-resource staff members and anyone who influences the development of an organization’s disciplinary system, this book is a must-read. Managers, supervisors and Small business owners also will benefit from Dick Grote’s guidance on implementing a non-punitive approach to improved performance. This book is highly appreciated for the thoughtfulness and detail of his suggested disciplinary system, as well as his advice on incorporating this system into your daily management practices.
C
The Game-Changer
This book is both intriguing and highly useful. Procter & Gamble CEO A. G. Lafley and business author Ram Charan draw examples from several large, successful organizations—GE, Honey-well, and Dupont—but their primary focus is Procter & Gamble (P &G). They explore how P&G changed from a staid giant to an organization driven by innovation—and radically expanded its sales and profits along the way. They are candid about P & G’s organizational methods and failed innovations, and they show how willing it has become to open up and connect.
D
The Leader on the Couch
When Manfred Kets de Varies uses many real life stories to show how you can use psychology to understand the workplace, his points are clear and seem immediately applicable. Admittedly, his discussion of the theories varies from instructive to somewhat obscure, and his classifications of personality and organizational types may seem arbitrary, but when he explains the processes involved in change, he is realistic and humane. Readers who exert some conscious patience will find the author’s core points about the role of the unconscious in the business world insightful and useful.
E
The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership
Principles are laws that apply across different cultures, generations, and circumstances. John Maxwell, drawing lessons from his own experiences as well as those of other leaders, has discovered 21 principles for leadership. in each chapter of the book, ,Maxwell describe—each law as a tool that can help people succeed in business, church, sports, and personal endeavors. Anyone in any position, in any field, and in any culture, can learn and practice these laws to become a successful leader. The learning is made richer by real life illustrations that show how the laws are practiced or violated.