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Ajbilou Employment trends

Work words, synonyms and compounds

A. Match the words to make compounds.
1. Job a. skills
2. Work-life b. package
3. Attrition c. satisfaction
4. Maternity d. security
5. Redundancy e. rates
6. Human f. leave
7. Job g. resources
8. Communication h. balance
B. Complete the sentences with compounds from the box.
job satisfaction work-life balance attrition rates maternity leave
redundancy package human resources job security communication skills
1. Promotion opportunities, a friendly working atmosphere and flexible working hours are all factors which can
affect …………………
2. It doesn't matter how many hours you work: if you have worked continuously for the same employer for two
years, you are entitled to have a ………………………when you are laid off.
3. Despite high ………………………., call centres in India are expected to continue to grow.
4. Most employers today are looking for people who can work across a wide variety of tasks within the
workplace so ……………………….., the ability to get on with other people and work in a team, are
particularly important.
5. High employee turnover is a huge …………………………….challenge for managers.
6. …………………………….used to be a given, but today growing numbers of professionals are reinventing
themselves by setting up as portfolio workers.
7. When my …………………………….was up, my employers agreed to let me finish at 3 o'clock instead of 5
so I could spend more time with my baby.
8. Portfolio workers should be able to have a better …………………………….but the people who employ them
often expect them to be on call 24/7.
C. Complete each set of sentences with the same word.
1. A. The new regulations ………………..to all companies employing 150 people or more.
B. Fraudsters can use your personal details to …………..for credit cards, loans and other financial products.
C. She is planning to ……………….for a full-time job as a computer technician.
2. A. Our consultant helped us to resolve the conflict and to ……………mutually beneficial relationships.
B. The new manager's ambition is to ……………… up the company to be an industry leader.
C. We will …………..on last year's success and improve our earnings before interest and tax by 15 per cent.
3. A. How can consultation exist when company directors may be thinking of substituting their
permanent workforce with a cheaper …………… supply based overseas?
B. At the meeting, workers will vote whether to withdraw their ……………. or to continue working.
C. The company is desperately trying to keep ………………costs down.
4. A. The manager soon ………………….a reputation as an expert on conflict resolution.
B. She worked extremely hard but only ……………….a meagre wage.
C. While he was in Canada, he ………………..a living as a music teacher.
5. A. The British car industry had one of its most depressing years on ………………….
B. The company was trying to raise production to a ………………..level.
C. The candidate should have a proven ……………….of excellent research or be able to
demonstrate potential for such research.
6. A. Organisations are ………………. rid of staff but they will buy back some of them on a portfolio basis.
B. After I had the baby it was ………………to be impossible to combine full-time work with my
family commitments.
C. The work was ……………….. too stressful and I started having trouble sleeping.