Mid terms for the 1st module were scheduled last week. My first non-competitive exam in three years. Studying again after such a long time is not easy, but i don't want to give that as an excuse for my poor performance. And since most of the others will be facing the same problem, it evens out the things a bit.
POM was scheduled on Wednesday morning (25-07-12) and i started studying for it by Tuesday afternoon, as i used to do in my 4 years of engineering where would start studying a day before the test. A quick browsing through the chapters, a speedy solution to the question bank provided on Dr. Mandi's Blog, discussion of answers online with friends and by the end of the night i thought i had it all covered. Well the test paper had different plan for me.
Q1) Theory X managers assumes that workers are lazy and don't like to work.
Ans1) TRUE... This was pretty straight forward, wrote in length about it in my first post, i got it right.
Q2) Flat Hierarchy organization involve greater coordination with in organization compared to taller hierarchy organization.
Ans2) FALSE... Didn't remember reading or writing about it, applied some logic, wrote true which turned out to be wrong.
Q3) Bounded rationality principle encourages the managers to be gamblers.
Ans3) FALSE... An easy one, unbounded managers are risk takers not bounded one.
Q4) Craftsmanship encourages specialisation.
Ans4) FALSE... Again another one directly from my blog, got it right.
Q5) Hawthorne experiments concluded that better working conditions leads to higher productivity.
Ans5) FALSE... Didnt write about it in my posts, but remember reading about it in the book. In the book the answer was little ambiguous, i wrote True in answer sheet, turned out to be wrong.
Q6) Organizations structures are conditioned by the organizational purpose and organizational processes.
Ans6) TRUE... It was not there in my blog, but read it from the book. got it right.
Q7) As per SMART goals principle realizable goals may be defined as the goals that are already realized.
Ans7) FALSE... One of my first posts in the blog, this one i got it right.
Q8) Both scientific management and administrative management theories conflict with each other.
Ans8)FALSE... Never posted about it or read about it. Although remember a slide shown by Dr. mandi in the class related to it. Wrote true which was wrong. Guess i should pay more attention in the class.
Q9) Technical skills emerge as critical for higher levels of managerial positions.
Ans9)FALSE... This one i remembered from the class and wrote correctly.
Q10) The word Scientific means in & Scientific management.
Ans10) Verifiable, Objective, Involves testing and experimentation, analysis; synthesis; logic; rationality; empiricism; repeatable
I remember few of the above mentioned points and wrote them on the answer sheet.
Q11) Differentiate Work - Job:
After taking the test i realised two things. First, I need to change my attitude towards studying. I am not in engineering college anymore. And secondly, i got all the questions right which were related to things i wrote in my blog. That means writing about lessons in the blog is not just a good way of teaching but learning too.
POM was scheduled on Wednesday morning (25-07-12) and i started studying for it by Tuesday afternoon, as i used to do in my 4 years of engineering where would start studying a day before the test. A quick browsing through the chapters, a speedy solution to the question bank provided on Dr. Mandi's Blog, discussion of answers online with friends and by the end of the night i thought i had it all covered. Well the test paper had different plan for me.
Q1) Theory X managers assumes that workers are lazy and don't like to work.
Ans1) TRUE... This was pretty straight forward, wrote in length about it in my first post, i got it right.
Q2) Flat Hierarchy organization involve greater coordination with in organization compared to taller hierarchy organization.
Ans2) FALSE... Didn't remember reading or writing about it, applied some logic, wrote true which turned out to be wrong.
Q3) Bounded rationality principle encourages the managers to be gamblers.
Ans3) FALSE... An easy one, unbounded managers are risk takers not bounded one.
Q4) Craftsmanship encourages specialisation.
Ans4) FALSE... Again another one directly from my blog, got it right.
Q5) Hawthorne experiments concluded that better working conditions leads to higher productivity.
Ans5) FALSE... Didnt write about it in my posts, but remember reading about it in the book. In the book the answer was little ambiguous, i wrote True in answer sheet, turned out to be wrong.
Q6) Organizations structures are conditioned by the organizational purpose and organizational processes.
Ans6) TRUE... It was not there in my blog, but read it from the book. got it right.
Q7) As per SMART goals principle realizable goals may be defined as the goals that are already realized.
Ans7) FALSE... One of my first posts in the blog, this one i got it right.
Q8) Both scientific management and administrative management theories conflict with each other.
Ans8)FALSE... Never posted about it or read about it. Although remember a slide shown by Dr. mandi in the class related to it. Wrote true which was wrong. Guess i should pay more attention in the class.
Q9) Technical skills emerge as critical for higher levels of managerial positions.
Ans9)FALSE... This one i remembered from the class and wrote correctly.
Q10) The word Scientific means in & Scientific management.
Ans10) Verifiable, Objective, Involves testing and experimentation, analysis; synthesis; logic; rationality; empiricism; repeatable
I remember few of the above mentioned points and wrote them on the answer sheet.
Q11) Differentiate Work - Job:
Ans11) Job: A group of
homogeneous tasks related by similarity of functions.
Work - Physical or mental effort or activity
directed toward the production or accomplishment of something.After taking the test i realised two things. First, I need to change my attitude towards studying. I am not in engineering college anymore. And secondly, i got all the questions right which were related to things i wrote in my blog. That means writing about lessons in the blog is not just a good way of teaching but learning too.
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