Suggestions: Career And Company Topics

[Scoobyqueen]

I am preparing a series of short talks with my teacher with the aim of expanding work vocabulary.

I know my teacher finds these talks interesting so I am keen to cover topics (also a bit controversial and company political) that are still interesting for Chinese people.

My preliminary list includes:

How to obtain a higher budget for next year

Ways to circumvent your boss

Positioning yourself with your boss' boss

How to get a pay rise in an economic downturn

(The above list includes observations of colleagues and does not necessarily concur with how I would do it)..

Any other suggestions would be appreciated.

[Peiruo]

Topics my chinese students (of english) enjoy include:

Management styles

Financial freedom

The benefits of working for a big company versus a small company

Employee engagement

[jbradfor]

Working with co-workers that are in other countries

Working for private-Chinese-owned companies vs government-owned companies vs foreign owned companies

Management or technical? [it seems most Chinese think management is the preferred career path, even though it often pays worse then technical work.]

Workplace romances (if you want juicy)

[Scoobyqueen]

Thanks very much for these suggestions. As a result I used a cross between the above suggestions: cross-cultural difference in management styles and my teacher immediately responded he thought it was a great topic so thanks. If anyone if interested in the vocabulary arising from these sessions, I will write it on this thread.

Oh by the way the suggestion of work romances is a good one (although we dont have any at the moment..just affair) but it reminded me of another one: backstabbing. It would be interesting to see how much that goes on in the Chinese workplace considering how careful they are with their reputation.