2.1 Company benefits
1 Complete this list of job benefits using the words in the box.
Unpaid  promotion off  pension
Company flexible good holiday
Your employment package will
include:
●a (0) good salary
●Use of a (1) _____ car
●(2) _____ working hours
●Excellent opportunities for
    (3) ______
●A full (4) _____ on retirement
●Possibility of (5) _____ leave
●Five weeks annual (6) ______
●One day (7) per month for personal training
2 Complete these expressions using take.
0 I am taking a trip to Madrid next week. I hope I’ll
  get some time to see the city.
1 Don’t worry. Andrew is an excellent host. He will
take _________ of you.
2 We have taken _________ a temporary secretary for
Three months to help us get through the work.
3 I think we should take a ___________. We have been
Discussing this for two hours now.
4 You should take what she says with a _________ of salt.
5 The conference will take __________ in New York in October next year.
3 Read the passage about job title inflation and choose the best sentence (A-G) to complete each gap (1-6)
A That is a lot of chiefs and not very many Indians.
B Have you got greater responsibilities?
C They make a public statement that this employee is important to the company.
D In terms of the job they actually do, the title is meaningless.
E After all, the company can’t be made up of only high-flying managers.
F The other will be to have an impressive job title.
Have you just been promoted to the status of manager? Then ask yourself these questions: has your salary risen significantly? (0) B Have your benefits increased? If not, then you are probably the victim of what is known as ‘job title inflation.’ (1)______
One in four company employees in London are now managers. (2) ______ it cannot be the case that companies need so many people giving orders and so few people taking them. So we can only conclude that these managers are managers in name only. (3)______
So why do companies continue to hand our these titles? The answer is simple. They are a cheap way to recognise an employee’s commitment to the job and to give them an incentive to stay. (4) ______ if you ask an MBA student these days what their ambitions are, one will certainly be to pick up a fat pay cheque some day. (5) ________
But companies have to be careful. Too many title promotions can lead to employees feeling suspicious about their value. (6) ______ If the company keeps creating new title (Senior, Deputy, Vice-President, Marketing and so on) their significance soon decreases. 
The Past 
4 Look at the underlined verbs in this dialogue. If the verb is in the correct tense, write “correct”.    If it is incorrect, write he correct form.
Interviewer so, I see from your CV that you are currently with Cadbury’s. How long did you work
(0)have you been working there?
Candidatesort out the facts I have joined (1)________them in 2004. At first, I worked
(2)_________in the sales department but more recently I worked (3)_________in the marketing Innovation department.
Interviewer That sounds interesting. What have you done(4)___________________there exactly?
Candidate We have been researching
(5)________________________what products we should sell into our new markets in the Far East. In some cases we took (6)______________________an existing product and branded it. In other cases we have been developing(7)____________________a completely new product.
Interviewer And you lived(8)_________________in Australia until last January. Is that right?
Candidate Yes, we have moved(9)___________back to the UK in February. I have looked(10)_______for a new job since then.
5 Write the profile of this company using the facts in the box, Begin like this:
I think we all recognise that incentives are important, but why? And what king of incentives work best? Should they be financial or should we concentrate on praising employees for good work or for achieving their targets? The answer is not simple because not every individual responds in the same way.
  Reynard Inc is based in Birmingham in UK.

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