步入成功管理类研究生英语教程（下册）

本书是参照MBA英语教学大纲编写的英语教程，分上、下两册，可供两个学期教学使用。编写从听力着手，以阅读为主线，提供大量材料，并配合课文设计了形式多样的学习活动，目的在于培养学生的英语表达能力。
本教程适用于MBA、MPA学生、管理类研究生及渴望进一步提高英语能力的管理者。

本套教材阅读课文的选题具有真实性和新颖性，知识性和趣味性，题材广泛，与MBA相关知识联系密切，便于学生积极参与课堂讨论和教师组织教学。本教程除了适合MBA学生外，还适用于管理类研究生使用。

Unit 1
On Friendship
Unit 2
Ethics and Competitiveness--Putting First Things First
Unit 3
A New Form of Life, or Revenge of Machines?
Unit 4
Companies in a Family Way
Unit 5
Talking from 9 to 5
Unit 6
Sixty Million on the Move
Unit 7
Bill Gates' New Rules
Unit 8
Wagon Masters and Lesser Managers
Unit 9
Make Money by Thinking the Unthinkable
Unit 10
The Edge
Unit 11
The Almighty Customer( I )
Unit 12
The Executive as storyteller
注释及练习答案

书摘
Companies in a Family Way
Some firms do much more than provide "'family friendly" programs.
They' ve redesigned jobs with parents in mind.
Amy Saltzman
1 This is the paradox of the American workplace: Most companies now realize they must make concessions to a world where both parents work, and an increasing number offer flextime, child care, and other programs to help employees cope. But the same companies expect their most ambitious and devoted workers to forgo such options or to take advantage of them only in order to spend more hours at the office. They adhere to a blueprint for success drafted 40 years ago when men went to work and women stayed home. In this conception, work is firmly in the center and "personal life" is squeezed into whatever space remains.
2 At a handful of companies around the country, however, an experiment is underway that turns this formulation on its head. Rather than appending "family friendly" programs to a traditional conception of office life, these firms are redefining the nature of work itself, making balanced lives for employees a central tenet around which the rest of the company is designed.
3 Like most new philosophies, this one was born of necessity. Studies show workers want more balanced lives, and companies are wise to adapt if they want to stay competitive.Most corporations start out offering traditional job flexibility programs, but few employees take advantage of them. Child care would seem a good way to help workers handle family responsibilities, but in some cases it adds a new level of anxiety. With emergency child care available, for example, an employee can now come to work even when a child is too ill for day care, secure in the knowledge that a complete stranger is tending her toddler. "We had to ask ourselves if this is really the message we wanted to be sending employees--that work should come first no
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