2013年ESL之商务英语 18 Understanding Corporate Structure

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Understanding Corporate¹ Structure 

Andrea: This organizational chart is really confusing. 

Raffael: Why are you looking at that? 

Andrea: I have an interview next week and I’m trying to bone up on the company I’ll be interviewing with. I want to impress them, but this chart is really confusing. 

Raffael: Let me see. It’s a simple flow chart. You have your board of directors at the top, with the managing director reporting to them, and then the executive officers overseeing major departments. 

Andrea: But I thought managers work below the executive officers. 

Raffael: You’re confusing managers with managing directors. The managing director oversees³ the entire company and managers oversee² daily operations. 

Andrea: Oh, I see. So these here are the departments: accounting⁴, marketing⁵, purchasing, personnel, R & D, sales, and production. 

Raffael: That’s right. Which department are you interviewing for? 

Andrea: I think the job is in purchasing. 

Raffael: You think? Don’t you think that’s something you should get straight before you do anything else? 

Andrea: You might have a point there. 

Script by Dr. Lucy Tse