أخبار الأعمال 06 – نقل إلى الخارج

This Business English News podcast examines the topic of offshoring jobs. “نقل إلى الخارج” means to move part of a company’s operations (usually supporting functions such as finance or HR) to another countryliterallyoff shore.Another commonly used term related to this topic isoutsourcing” – this means to use a different company to handle some supporting tasks. The key difference is that outsourcing doesn’t necessarily mean the work is done in a different country.

The topic of offshoring, or outsourcing work overseas, is certainly a popular one these days, and many people in Western Europe and North America are quite concerned that this practice will lead to less job opportunities in their countries. لكن, our story details a report from a well know management consultancy that concludes these concerns may be exaggerated oroverblown.

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أخبار الأعمال 05 – اجتماعات افتراضية

How do you conduct your meetings? Face-to-face, على الهاتف, by videoconference or maybe even using VOIP/Skype? حسنًا, now there is a new way – اجتماعات افتراضية, or meetings where participants are represented by computer generated characters.

Listen to how IBM is using the virtual world of a website called Second Life as the next best thing to in person corporate meetings. After listening to the article, we’ll highlight some of the new vocabulary and provide definitions and further examples.

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أخبار الأعمال 04 – أسلوب الإدارة

Our Business English news story today is about the changes in management style taking place around the world.

After you listen to the story, we’ll explain some of the new English vocabulary and provide further examples of how they can be used.

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أخبار الأعمال 01 (نص) – علاقات عمل

This is the transcript for the first of our regular Business English News podcasts. We hear how people communicate at work and the different factors that can affect how communication takes place.

We suggest that you first listen to the reading and make a note of any English words you are not familiar with. Then read a copy of the article and see if you can guess the meaning of the words by looking at how it is used. أخيرا, listen to the explanation and discussion of the vocabulary and see if you guessed correctly.

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أخبار الأعمال 3 – 200 خطأ مليون دولار

Our news story today is about a share trader in a Japanese bank who made perhaps the worlds most expensive typing error!

After you listen to the story, we’ll explain some of the new vocabulary and provide further examples of how it can be used. The transcript for this Business English News podcast is in the ‘Archives’ الجزء:

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