Английский для социологов. Астафурова Т.Н. - 41 стр.

                                                                          Call for
                                                      Accept    Reject    second
                                                                         interview
   3. PRODUCTION MANAGER
 The applicant is a 44 year old woman. You have       Reasons
 recently interviewed twenty people for a very
 responsible post within your company and she is
 one of the two on your final shortlist. The other
 most promising candidate is a 29 year old man. On
 balance, you think the man would probably be the
 better choice but, at present, your company has
 only appointed three female managers out of a total
 of thirty two and you are under a lot of pressure
 from the personnel department to exercise positive
 discrimination in favour of women.
   4. MANAGEMENT TRAINER                              Reasons
The applicant is a 31 year old man. The company
you represent runs assertiveness training courses for
women in management and at the moment you have
an all-female staff. Whilst the applicant has an
excellent track record in management training with
mixed groups, you have some doubts about his
credibility running seminars exclusively for women,
some of whom tend to see male managers more as
an obstacle than an aid to their progress. You re
also concerned about how the rest of the staff will
react to him.

     Have you ever found yourself in a similar position to one of
those above? What did you do?

     9. WRITE A FOLLOW-UP LETTER
     Choose one of the situations above where you decided to reject
the applicant and write a letter to the person concerned explaining
your decision. You may find the notes below helpful.

     Notes:


 Dear …..........
 Thank / application / this post.
 Whilst / impressed / qualifications and experience / and /


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