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English translation: subtle differences and deliberate variations
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| 08:14 Jun 5, 2012 |
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|  Selected response from: B D Finch France Local time: 20:59 | ||||||
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| 4 +3 | subtle differences and deliberate variations |
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| 5 | member of my staff..my employee |
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| 4 | management / executive management (technical an employee but might be the owner if it is a small |
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| 4 | It depends... |
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6 mins confidence: 
management / executive management (technical an employee but might be the owner if it is a small Explanation: I don't know if these are the only choices you've been given. Presidents of companies are usually referred to as management. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 6 mins (2012-06-05 08:21:28 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Sorry, it cut off. Should have been "small company." -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 17 mins (2012-06-05 08:32:16 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Thanks for clarifying what you needed. It depends on the context. "Worker" is used more often in factory contexts; staff can be all-inclusive but it is usually not used to refer to manual workers. "Employee(s)" is the word that best describes all the people who work in a company as it covers all categories. |
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18 mins confidence:
It depends... Explanation: All of the terms are quite vague but, in general. staff are middle management or intellectual workers so you would use staff if it was an IT company (for example). Workers are more manual workers, possible low skilled so you would use this term to perhaps refer to people that work on an assembly line. Employee covers both terms and would be used if you wanted to refer to all the workers in a factory, both middle management and assembly line workers. However, as I said, the terms are quite flexible. In particular, workers are often upgraded to staff - it's cheaper than paying them more money! |
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1 hr confidence:
member of my staff..my employee Explanation: choose when you sayl about your employee? => when your refer to an employee? talk abut an employee => member of my staff..my employee |
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1 hr confidence: peer agreement (net): +3
peer agreement (net): +3subtle differences and deliberate variations Explanation: Workers Not only used for industrial and factory context, e.g. "health service workers", "office workers", "intellectual workers" etc. It is used where the context is more about the activity performed than the fact of being employed or than their being part of the employer's "staff" resource. "Workers" is also used in a political or trade union context to indicate pride in the status of worker, indicating a certain independence. To quote Albert Einstein: “I consider it important, indeed urgently necessary, for intellectual workers to get together, both to protect their own economic status and, also, generally speaking, to secure their influence in the political field.” http://thinkexist.com/quotation/i_consider_it_important-inde... To the boss, the use of the term "workers" serves as a reminder of difference of interests and the fact that these are people, not just a resource to be used or disposed of; which is probably why bosses prefer to avoid this term in favour of "employees" or "staff". Employees The status of being employed is two-edged. To the employee, it denotes security of having a wage or salary (another subtle distinction), the success of having managed to get and keep a job but, at the same time it reminds the employee of their dependent status and the need to watch what they say and do. To the boss, the term "employees" is a reminder of his/her own power to command, hire and fire and also a potential source of pride in confirming his/her status as a provider of employment. Staff This can refer to the higher status employees: a direct borrowing from the term's military use where it refers to higher-ranking officers who directly participate in control of operations. However, it can also be used about the mass of employees operationally available to a company. Thus the manager of a cleaning company referring to his "staff" means the cleaners e.g. "I'll get my staff to clean the toilets." Unlike the term "employees", "staff" includes a sense of being a team who work together, share experiences, support one another, e.g. "a member of staff". A boss using the term "staff" is putting him/herself in the position of a commanding officer with a coordinated and disciplined team of people at his/her disposal. |
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