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Writing anglais commercial 2017

Centre National de l'Evaluation des Examens et de l ? Orientation Filière Épreuve de Examen National du Brevet de Technicien Supérieur Session Sujet Page Toutes les ?lières du BTS Commercial MT- PME- CG- TC- MC- GA Durée Heures La langue Anglaise Coe ?cient Management in Germany and Britain - A study comparing Britain and German approaches to management has revealed the deep gulf which separates managerial behavior in many German and British companies The gap is so fundamental especially among middle managers that it can pose severe problems for companies from the two countries which either merge or collaborate The ?ndings are from a study called ??managing in Britain and Germany ? carried by a team of German and British academics from Manheim University and Templeton College Oxford -According to the academics study the di ?erences are shown most clearly in the contrasting attitudes of many Germans and Britons to managerial expertise and authority German managers both top and middle consider technical skills to be the most important aspect of their jobs They also consider that they earn their authority with colleagues and subordinates from the ? expert knowledge ? rather than from their position in the organizational hierarchy In contrast British middle managers see themselves as executives ?rst and technicians second As a result German middle managers may ?nd that the only people within their British partner companies who are capable of helping them solve routine problems are technical specialists who do not have management rank -Other practical results of these di ?erences include a greater tendency of British middle managers to regard the design of their departments as their own responsibility and to organize them more frequently than what happens in Germany German middle managers can have ??major problems in dealing with this ? the academics point out since British middle managers also change their jobs more often As a result UK organizations often undergo more or less constant change -Of the thirty British middle managers in the study thirteen had held their current jobs for less than two years compared with only three in Germany Many of the Britons had also moved between unrelated departments or functional areas for example from marketing to human resources In contrast all but one of the Germans had stayed in the same functional area Twenty of them had occupied their current positions for ?ve years or more compared with only ?ve of the Britons -The researchers almost certainly exaggerate the strengths of German pattern its stability helps to create the rigid attitudes which stop many German companies from adjusting to external change But the authors of the report are correct about the drawbacks of the more unstable and less technically- oriented British pattern And they are right in concluding that the two countries do not merely have di ?erent career systems but also di ?erent ways of doing business I-COMPREHENSION POINTS A Fill in the chart with information from paragraph and about the main di ?erences between German and British managers