TEST

You are in a department meeting and you need to borrow a pen in order to take some notes. The head of your department is sitting next to you and might have an extra pen. You:

You have forgotten to write an important report that is due on Friday afternoon, and you realize this on Thursday, just when you are about to leave for a pre-planned long weekend. You think that a close colleague might be able to help even though he’s quite busy. You go to his desk and you:

You are having a project meeting with a partner company. The project leader from your company was not able to attend this meeting and has put you in charge instead. You think that the report the partner company has produced is inadequate and you need them to redo it. You address the project leader of the partner company. You:

You have a radical development idea for a project you are not involved in and that is run by your closest executive. You would really like to get involved even though you know that it is unlikely to be possible. You run into your closest executive in the hallway. You:

You are working on a case with your close colleagues and you have been discussing some core ideas related to the execution of the objectives of the case. You haven’t quite understood the idea of one of your colleagues. You:

You are in the first meeting of a new project team that consists of colleagues from different units of the company. You have not met the others before. It is extremely important that everyone attends every future meeting, and because you all have a very full calendar the meeting schedule has already been set. However, you are not able to attend the next meeting, unless it was rescheduled. You:

You need to install a programme on your computer and you know that your closest executive has the only copy of it. It is quite urgent so you go to her office. The door is open and she is inside. You:

You are executing a project in collaboration with a new partner company. You are in the first meeting of the project and a few colleagues from both companies are present. A colleague from the partner company goes to copy a document of which you also need a copy. You:

Please briefly describe what factors influenced your choice of words and phrases in the above situations?