QUESTIONS ANGLAIS ORAL

JOBS

1) Why did you decide to study trade an economics?

2) Where do you see yourself in 4yrs time?
3) Do you know what a career plan is? Do you have one? why? Why not?
4) What do you understand by career? By job?
5) Do you expect to work for one company all your life or not?
6) What are your priorities in your future working life? (money, status, feeling
useful to society )
7) What will make you accept or refuse a job?
8) React to the following sentence :
o The most common mistake that people make
in their career decisions is to do something
because they are good at it.
o You are responsible for creating your own
career within an organization
o Move towards your long-term objective in
small, easy stage
o Make sure that pre-conceived ideas about
success and failure are not preventing you
from reaching your goals

9) Is this discussion worth it or does you career depend on life’s

circumstances more than anything else?
10) Are you good communicator? Time manager? Team worker?
11)Are you able to take responsibility?

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 12)Which types of workers do you think there will be more/less of in the
future? (blue or white collar, freelancer, temp etc..)
13)If you are working at the moment, how do you feel about your present job?
14)What would you like to be doing in the future, say in 5 or ten years’ time?

Agree ?
o Paying people at the same level in the company at different rates of
competitiveness and pay, introduce raise productivity.
o Job insecurity encourages people to work harder
o People want to feel that their job is important
o Few people are capable of managing themselves. They need firm
management form above.
o People need continuous praise and encouragement to prevent
them from slacking off ( faire moins d’efforts as usual)
o Peer group recognition means more people than management
recognition

Text: Generation X
1) What does that means ?
2) What are the main ideas ? what are your reactions? Is it true for you ?
3) What would you do to attract and keep young employees if you were an
employer?
4) How do your parents manage their work-life balance ?

Text: Giving employees what they want

1) According to David Sirota, what does employees want ? do you
agree ?
2) What are the things companies can do to boost morale ?
3) What is meant by “a ring of defense”
4) What D Sirota’s view on the merit pay system ? do you go along with
him ?

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 5) Which are the 4 forms of management ? which one do you feel more
comfortable with ?

ELECTIONS

1) Can you name the two presidential hopefuls and their running mates ?
2) What do you know about each of them?
3) If you were an American citizen, who would you vote for an why ?
4) If you were a presidential hopeful, what would you emphasize in your
program ?
5) I vote democrats/republican because …
6) Based on the 4 parts (Obama’s speech) would you say the speech is
optimistic or pessimistic?
7) What do like about that speech ? what do you dislike ?
8) Obama says the world is changing. What do you think he means ?
9) “with a black face in a high place, America is changing for the better”.
Agree ?
10)Do you think Obama will improve the relationship America has with the
outside world ?
11)Are you pessimistic or optimistic about Obama’s presidency ?
12)What do you think may change with this new president ?

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KAROSHI

1. What can companies do to help employees relieve the stress?

2. Do you think that people are presently obliged to work overtime if they
want to remain competitive?
3. Do you think that stress can affect our eating habits? Our private life?
Explain.
4. Do you think that stress can increase alcohol consumption?
5. Do you think you could become a workaholic?
6. Are men and women differently affected by stress? Explain.
7. Could we have a case of Karoshi in Europe? Why / Why not?
8. Do you understand people who give up their holidays?
9. Could you sacrifice your family for your job?

CEO

1) What are the aims of your business? What should the aims of large
multinational company be?
2) In what order of importance to your company would you put these groups:
shareholders, customers, employees?
3) What should be the attitude of a modern company to change?
4) When the company needs to save money, which areas of a company’s
expenditure should you consider cutting first? What are the dangerous
areas to cut costs in?
5) What advantages do small companies have over large companies?
6) How can a company be sure it makes good acquisition?

7) What is management? Art or science? Instinct or a set of skills that can be

taught?
8) What is a good manager?

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 9) List 4 important qualities. Which must you be born with?

Text Branson:
1) How much of Branson’s leadership style do you think is a question of
personality, how much is question of technique?
2) Which things do you most admire about Branson’s leadership style?
3) Would you like to work for him ?

ERASMUS

1) Where are you going? Why ?

2) Describe you personal skills

CORPORATE ETHICS

Agree ?
o Companies have a debt to society apart from paying taxes and
obeying and the law?
o By concentrating on making profits, companies are contributing
enough to society ?
o Managers should concentrate on making profits rather than CSR ?

Text : Anita Roddick.

1) Who’s Anita Roddick ?

2) Why is she remarkable ?
3) Give some examples of what se fought for.

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Text : Herald tribune.

React:
1) The human mind has this ability to rationalize away bad acts
2) There is marked correlation between a strong commitment
to ethics and transparency and strong financial results”
3) Give examples of what could be written in a code of
conduct? Do you think it helps work?
4) Do you also believe there is “a wide gulf between how a
business defines ethics and compliance and how the public
sees it ?
5) Greed is part of the fuel of the capitalistic system
6) The key to avoiding ethical disaster is good leadership

MOTIVATION AT WORK

1) As an employee, how important are the following to you to

make your company a good company to work for ?
2) What do you consider the most important motivators at
work?

Which category would you fall into ?

o Some managers believe that most people dislike work
and must be controlled and directed to achieve the
organization’s goals.
o Others believe that most of people like work and
actively seek responsibility. They believe in
empowerment and enabling.
How do you feel about MBO ?
Talk about your career prospects (cfr JOBS)

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PRESENTATIONS

1) What do think about teleworking ?

2) What solutions do you see to traffic problems in cities?
3) Is sustainable development possible or not?
4) Kids soldiers
5) New energies
6) How can we cope with stress?
7) Would you be rather employed or self employed?
8) Marriage
9) For or against government intervention in the economy?