Учебно-методическое пособие по развитию навыков профессионального общения. В двух частях. Ч.1: Management. Руденко Т.П - 19 стр.

     8. Humour                                                                               TEXT 3
     Men's humour can be cruel – a man's joke usually has a victim.
Female humour is less hurtful. A woman often jokes against herself.                             “Invisible” Resource: Women for Boards
      CAVEAT                                                                                                                                   Felice N. Schwartz
      Many men have a female style of working. Equally many women                                                                        Harvard Business Review
have a male approach. As Ms Stuart says many of the current manage-
ment theorems – flatter organisations*, empowerment, managing by                            Despite the increased appearance of          Boards: (board of
consensus** – have a female style to them.                                               women on corporate boards in recent             directors) group of
                                                                                         years, only 1,8 % of the directors of the top   persons controlling a
      READING                                                                            1,300 boards are women. Almost without          business.
      1 The text is about the different styles that men and women                        exception, these women have been highly
have in the workplace. Look at the cartoons and say which figures                        “visible” for their achievements in govern-     Visible: here, out-
you think represent men and which represent women?                                       ment, education, and nonprofit circles. But     standing, prominent,
                                                                                         there are hundreds of other high achievers      well-known.
                                                                                         who are not so visible. The problem for         Nominating commit-
                                                                                         chairmen and nominating committees is           tees: groups who sug-
                                                                                         twofold: (I) identifying and selecting the      gest possible represen-
                                                                                         best of this “unknown” but talented pool of     tatives or members (in
                                                                                         candidates and (2) defining and communi-        this case, board mem-
                                                                                         cating their expectations from women.           bers).
                                                                                                                                         Pool: common fund,
                                                                                                                                         supply, or service,
                                                                                                                                         provided by or shared
                                                                                                                                         among many.
                                                                                                                                         Expectations: wishes
                                                                                                                                         or confidences of
                                                                                                                                         something to be done,
                                                                                                                                         produced, or received.
                                                                                             Women have only recently entered the
                                                                                         boardroom. The popular perception is that
                                                                                         large numbers have been appointed to cor-
                                                                                         porate boards and that they are now a sig-
                                                                                         nificant presence on the boards of most
                                                                                         major corporations in the United States.
____________________                                                                     But that perception does not yet reflect
   *
     Flatter organisations: organisations in which there are fewer managers and people
have equal status.                                                                       reality.
  **
     Managing by consensus: managing by getting everyone to agree.

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