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Real Life: Business Jargon (1)
1.When deciding to form a partnership with another company, it
is important to ascertain if the company you want to partner with
is a good fit with your own company. If the partnership
won't align your business with its goals, it may not be a good
choice.

legislative
strategic
efficiency
international
2.Businesses sometimes form partnerships or assign teams to
complete projects to capture the effects of ; where the end
result is greater than the sum of its parts.

synergy
energy
mindset
quality
3.American management is very driven. Managers like to
evaluate employees based on quantitative measures designed to
measure the accomplishment of specific goals.

process
motivation
empowerment
results
4.One of the first steps in implementing a total-quality
management system is conducting a review of all of a business's

activities to ensure that the activities that don't add value are
eliminated and those that are value are improved.

subtracted
added
based
determined
5.Businesses try to eliminate redundancies in their research and
development activities because it is very expensive to reinvent
the these days.

stone
electricity
automobile
wheel
6.Due, in part, to the many cases of accounting fraud in the early
2000's, investors, government entities and non-governmental
organizations are asking businesses for a greater degree of
in their business operations.

lucidity
opacity
duplicity
transparency
7.With today's current focus on sustainability, businesses who
are going are experiencing a great degree of commercial
success.

environment
green

closed-loop
service-and-flow
8.Today's business environment requires companies to be good
corporate as well as be profitable.

governors
neighbors
brothers
citizens
9.Businesses may be able to obtain a competitive advantage over
others by transferring best from where they originated
within an organization to each part and each location of their
business operations.

operations
practices
diligence
governance
10.Today's management theories indicate that if a firm wants to
remain competitive in today's environment, it should focus on its
core in other words things it does better than its
competitors and outsource any operations that others do better.

competencies
agreements
intricacies
intricacies