british at work
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Political Union in The United Kingdom of Great Britain
The United Kingdom of Great Britain that came into being on 1 May 1707 was
political union of the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland.
After The Political Union in The United Kingdom of Great Britain
Over the next three centuries, The United Kingdom developed as one of the world’s leading economies,
Between 1870 and the end of 20th century
Commonwealth politics
Queen Elizabeth II is the head of commonwealth. The commonwealth of
Nations is an intergovernmental organization of fifty-three independent member states (2009). All but two of these countries were formerly part of
the British Empire.
Faces of Business
The Fastest growing business in UK are Services industries hotels, restaurants, travel, shopping, and computer and financial services.
A “Round the clock” Service
The usual working day in Britain starts at 9 a.m. and finishes at 5 p.m. most people work a five-day week. But now many companies
want to give their customers a “round-the-clock” service 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
British Working Intensity
The British working week is, on average the longest of any country in Europe. In 1998 a new law was made. Workers do not have to work more than average of 48 hours a week if they don’t want to. But 22% of British workers do work more than a 48-hours a week.
British Working Intensity
In most Western European countries, working time is gradually decreasing. The European Union’s working time directive imposes a 48 hour maximum working week that applies to every members expect the United Kingdom.
British Working Intensity
About 45% of British workers are women, but many them are part time jobs.
About 44% of women work part time.
Only 9% of men work part time.
About 16% of men self employed.
About 7% of women self-employed.
British Working Intensity
There are about 3.7 million business in UK. Many of these are large companies. About 3.000 British businesses employ more than 500 people. Of the top of 500 European companies, about 150 are British.
The Tea Break
Frequent tea break are bane of office productivity. One strange custom requires you to ask everyone around whether they’d like tea or coffee whenever you go to get some for your self. Often people will try and wait each other out so that they can avoid this chore.
Meetings
Generally a meeting schedule for one hour always lasts one hour. The objective of meeting are spelled out the onset and the communication is so clear and simple that the discussion hardly ever meanders.
ECONOMY
The UK is fourth largest economy in the world, with a gross domestic product (GDP) of US $1.93 trillion. It has second largest economy in Europe after Germany.
Britain main industries today are :
Banking and finance
Steel
Transport equipment
Oil and gas
Machine tools
Electric power equipment
Automation equipment
Railroad equipment
Etc
Farming (Agriculture) industry products are :
Cereals
Oilseed
Potatoes
Vegetables
Cattle
Sheep
Poultry
Fish
In energy industry are :
Coal
Natural gas and
Oil reserves
Primary energy production accounts for 10% for GDP.
Who is the richest in Britain
The top 20
1. Lakshmi Mittal and family, steel, £22,450 million, up 108 per cent.
2. Roman Abramovich, oil and Industry, £7,400 million, up six per cent.
3. Duke of Westminster, property £6,750 million, up four per cent.
4. Emesto and Kirsty Bertarelli, pharmaceuticals £5,950 million up 19 per cent.
5. David and Simons Reuben, property and internet, £5,532 million, up 121 per cent.
Who is the richest in Britain
6. Alisher Usmanov, steel and mines, £4,700 million up 213 per cent.
7. Galen and George Weston and family, retailing, £4,500 million, up 400 per cent.
8. Charlene and Michel de Carvalho, inheritance, brewing, banking, £4,400 million, up 49 percent.
9. Sir Philip and Lady Green, £4,105 million, up 7 per cent.
10. Anil Agarwal, mining, £4,100 million, up 583 per cent.
Who is the richest in Britain
11. Hans Rausing and family, packaging, £4,000 million, unchanged
12. Joseph Lau, property, £3,825 million (new entry)
13. Kristen and Jorn Rausing, inheritance and investment, £3,500, up 40 per cent
14. Vladimir Kim, mining £3,160, up 480 per cent.
15. Leonard Blavatnik, industry £3,000 million (new entry)
Who is the richest in Britain
16. John Fredriksen, shipping £2,750 million, up 10 per cent.
17. Joe Lewis, foreign exchange and investment £2,700 million, up 7 per cent.
18. Sir Richard Branson, transport, internet and mobile telephones, £2,600 million up 117 per cent.
19. Earl Cadogan and family, property £2,300 million, up 15 per cent.
20. Alan Parker, duty-free shoping, £2,074 million, up 15 per cent.
Cooping, J. (2010). Sunday Times Rich List 2010: Britain’s richest see wealth rise by one third. www.telegraph.co.uk [retrieved on 22/08/10]
The City of London
The Centres of Commerce Index covers 75 cities, ranking them on a range of factors including legal systems, political and economic stability, and ease of doing business.
New York came second, Tokyo was third, Singapore fourth and Chicago fifth. The two north American cities in the top 10 were New York and Chicago. The top European cities after London were Madrid, up 16 to 11 globally and from six to five in Europe, and Amsterdam fourth in Europe.
What Kind business people do in the city
Banking and Insurance. Banks were place where people kept their money. Insurance companies started because Britain had a lot of ship-owner.
There are about six hundred banks in the city. The so called “big four” like banks the National Wesminster bank, Barclays Bank, Midland Bank, The Bank Scotland also has a very large number of branches. So does the trustee Savings (TSB)