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QFTCICR19 Game 9, Rounds 4,6: management, characters
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Mark Brader
May 8, 2019, 12:02:26 AM5/8/19
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These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2019-04-01,
and should be interpreted accordingly.
On each question you may give up to two answers, but if you give
both a right answer and a wrong answer, there is a small penalty.
Please post all your answers to the newsgroup in a single followup,
based only on your own knowledge. (In your answer posting, quote
the questions and place your answer below each one.) I will reveal
the correct answers in about 3 days.
All questions were written by members of the Cellar Rats and are
used here by permission, but have been reformatted and may have
been retyped and/or edited by me. For further information see
my 2019-01-22 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
* Game 9, Round 6 - Science - Management Science
1. Standard management textbooks tell us that a manager should be
doing four functions. Name any *two*.
2. When an employee hears information from an unofficial source,
the employee is said to have heard it where?
3. In an organization what term is used to describe the ability
of a manager to influence or control others? The same term is
used in engineering and physics with another meaning.
4. Used in process improvement, this term was introduced by Motorola
in 1980. It refers to achieving success 99.99966% of the time.
What term are we referring to?
5. What concept in management expresses the idea that the whole
is greater than the sum of the individual parts? For example,
if one employee takes one hour to do a task, two employees will
take less than 1/2 hour to do the same task.
6. The CIO is an important role in the executive layer of
management. Because of its challenges it is jokingly referred
to as "Career Is Over". What does CIO actually stand for?
7. What expression, which is taken from the military but also used
in management, expresses the idea that it is detrimental to an
organization if employees go over their manager, or a manager
talks to individuals reporting to his subordinates?
8. What term is used when a manager spells out in minute detail
everything that needs to be done, leaving their subordinates
little or no opportunity to use their own judgement to complete
a task?
9. Which management scientist / psychologist defined a hierarchy of
5 needs which allows employees in an organization to be motivated
in their workplace?
10. What term is used to describe an organization where an
individual may report to two or more people, for example a
functional manager and a product manager?
* Game 9, Round 6 - Literature - Characters
In each case we name the year, the author, and one character that
the author created for the book; you give the title.
1. 1960, John Updike, "Rabbit" Angstrom.
2. 1992, Michael Ondaatje, Hana.
3. 1920, Edith Wharton, Newland Archer.
4. 1926, Ernest Hemingway, Jake Barnes.
5. 1951, J.D. Salinger, Phoebe Caulfield.
6. 1942, Albert Camus, Meursault.
7. 1927, Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Ramsay.
8. 1922, James Joyce, Molly Bloom.
9. 1964, Margaret Laurence, Hagar Shipley.
10. 1985, Larry McMurtry, Augustus McCrae.
--
Mark Brader | "After that, he spent a long time just reading netnews.
m...@vex.net | Sorry, I mean of course that he was debugging his
Toronto | terminal emulation code..." --Lars Wirzenius
My text in this article is in the public domain.
and should be interpreted accordingly.
On each question you may give up to two answers, but if you give
both a right answer and a wrong answer, there is a small penalty.
Please post all your answers to the newsgroup in a single followup,
based only on your own knowledge. (In your answer posting, quote
the questions and place your answer below each one.) I will reveal
the correct answers in about 3 days.
All questions were written by members of the Cellar Rats and are
used here by permission, but have been reformatted and may have
been retyped and/or edited by me. For further information see
my 2019-01-22 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
* Game 9, Round 6 - Science - Management Science
1. Standard management textbooks tell us that a manager should be
doing four functions. Name any *two*.
2. When an employee hears information from an unofficial source,
the employee is said to have heard it where?
3. In an organization what term is used to describe the ability
of a manager to influence or control others? The same term is
used in engineering and physics with another meaning.
4. Used in process improvement, this term was introduced by Motorola
in 1980. It refers to achieving success 99.99966% of the time.
What term are we referring to?
5. What concept in management expresses the idea that the whole
is greater than the sum of the individual parts? For example,
if one employee takes one hour to do a task, two employees will
take less than 1/2 hour to do the same task.
6. The CIO is an important role in the executive layer of
management. Because of its challenges it is jokingly referred
to as "Career Is Over". What does CIO actually stand for?
7. What expression, which is taken from the military but also used
in management, expresses the idea that it is detrimental to an
organization if employees go over their manager, or a manager
talks to individuals reporting to his subordinates?
8. What term is used when a manager spells out in minute detail
everything that needs to be done, leaving their subordinates
little or no opportunity to use their own judgement to complete
a task?
9. Which management scientist / psychologist defined a hierarchy of
5 needs which allows employees in an organization to be motivated
in their workplace?
10. What term is used to describe an organization where an
individual may report to two or more people, for example a
functional manager and a product manager?
* Game 9, Round 6 - Literature - Characters
In each case we name the year, the author, and one character that
the author created for the book; you give the title.
1. 1960, John Updike, "Rabbit" Angstrom.
2. 1992, Michael Ondaatje, Hana.
3. 1920, Edith Wharton, Newland Archer.
4. 1926, Ernest Hemingway, Jake Barnes.
5. 1951, J.D. Salinger, Phoebe Caulfield.
6. 1942, Albert Camus, Meursault.
7. 1927, Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Ramsay.
8. 1922, James Joyce, Molly Bloom.
9. 1964, Margaret Laurence, Hagar Shipley.
10. 1985, Larry McMurtry, Augustus McCrae.
--
Mark Brader | "After that, he spent a long time just reading netnews.
m...@vex.net | Sorry, I mean of course that he was debugging his
Toronto | terminal emulation code..." --Lars Wirzenius
My text in this article is in the public domain.
Calvin
May 8, 2019, 2:11:42 AM5/8/19
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On Wednesday, May 8, 2019 at 2:02:26 PM UTC+10, Mark Brader wrote:
> * Game 9, Round 6 - Science - Management Science
>
> 1. Standard management textbooks tell us that a manager should be
> doing four functions. Name any *two*.
Liaising with other sections
> * Game 9, Round 6 - Science - Management Science
>
> 1. Standard management textbooks tell us that a manager should be
> doing four functions. Name any *two*.
Deal with complaints
> 2. When an employee hears information from an unofficial source,
> the employee is said to have heard it where?
> 3. In an organization what term is used to describe the ability
> of a manager to influence or control others? The same term is
> used in engineering and physics with another meaning.
>
> 4. Used in process improvement, this term was introduced by Motorola
> in 1980. It refers to achieving success 99.99966% of the time.
> What term are we referring to?
> 5. What concept in management expresses the idea that the whole
> is greater than the sum of the individual parts? For example,
> if one employee takes one hour to do a task, two employees will
> take less than 1/2 hour to do the same task.
> 6. The CIO is an important role in the executive layer of
> management. Because of its challenges it is jokingly referred
> to as "Career Is Over". What does CIO actually stand for?
> 7. What expression, which is taken from the military but also used
> in management, expresses the idea that it is detrimental to an
> organization if employees go over their manager, or a manager
> talks to individuals reporting to his subordinates?
> 8. What term is used when a manager spells out in minute detail
> everything that needs to be done, leaving their subordinates
> little or no opportunity to use their own judgement to complete
> a task?
> 9. Which management scientist / psychologist defined a hierarchy of
> 5 needs which allows employees in an organization to be motivated
> in their workplace?
> 10. What term is used to describe an organization where an
> individual may report to two or more people, for example a
> functional manager and a product manager?
>
>
> * Game 9, Round 6 - Literature - Characters
>
> In each case we name the year, the author, and one character that
> the author created for the book; you give the title.
>
> 1. 1960, John Updike, "Rabbit" Angstrom.
> 2. 1992, Michael Ondaatje, Hana.
> 3. 1920, Edith Wharton, Newland Archer.
> 4. 1926, Ernest Hemingway, Jake Barnes.
> 5. 1951, J.D. Salinger, Phoebe Caulfield.
> 6. 1942, Albert Camus, Meursault.
(almost put Stranger in a Strange Land :-)
> 7. 1927, Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Ramsay.
> 8. 1922, James Joyce, Molly Bloom.
> 9. 1964, Margaret Laurence, Hagar Shipley.
> 10. 1985, Larry McMurtry, Augustus McCrae.
calvin
Dan Blum
May 8, 2019, 9:56:47 AM5/8/19
to
> 4. Used in process improvement, this term was introduced by Motorola
> in 1980. It refers to achieving success 99.99966% of the time.
> What term are we referring to?
six sigma
> in 1980. It refers to achieving success 99.99966% of the time.
> What term are we referring to?
> 5. What concept in management expresses the idea that the whole
> is greater than the sum of the individual parts? For example,
> if one employee takes one hour to do a task, two employees will
> take less than 1/2 hour to do the same task.
> 6. The CIO is an important role in the executive layer of
> management. Because of its challenges it is jokingly referred
> to as "Career Is Over". What does CIO actually stand for?
> 7. What expression, which is taken from the military but also used
> in management, expresses the idea that it is detrimental to an
> organization if employees go over their manager, or a manager
> talks to individuals reporting to his subordinates?
> 8. What term is used when a manager spells out in minute detail
> everything that needs to be done, leaving their subordinates
> little or no opportunity to use their own judgement to complete
> a task?
> 9. Which management scientist / psychologist defined a hierarchy of
> 5 needs which allows employees in an organization to be motivated
> in their workplace?
> * Game 9, Round 6 - Literature - Characters
> 1. 1960, John Updike, "Rabbit" Angstrom.
Rabbit Runs
> 3. 1920, Edith Wharton, Newland Archer.
> 4. 1926, Ernest Hemingway, Jake Barnes.
> 5. 1951, J.D. Salinger, Phoebe Caulfield.
The Catcher in the Rye
> 8. 1922, James Joyce, Molly Bloom.
Ulysses
--
_______________________________________________________________________
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"I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up."
Erland Sommarskog
May 8, 2019, 2:24:06 PM5/8/19
to
Mark Brader (m...@vex.net) writes:
> * Game 9, Round 6 - Science - Management Science
>
> 1. Standard management textbooks tell us that a manager should be
> doing four functions. Name any *two*.
Lead, delegate
> * Game 9, Round 6 - Science - Management Science
>
> 1. Standard management textbooks tell us that a manager should be
> doing four functions. Name any *two*.
> 2. When an employee hears information from an unofficial source,
> the employee is said to have heard it where?
> 3. In an organization what term is used to describe the ability
> of a manager to influence or control others? The same term is
> used in engineering and physics with another meaning.
> 6. The CIO is an important role in the executive layer of
> management. Because of its challenges it is jokingly referred
> to as "Career Is Over". What does CIO actually stand for?
> 8. What term is used when a manager spells out in minute detail
> everything that needs to be done, leaving their subordinates
> little or no opportunity to use their own judgement to complete
> a task?
Joshua Kreitzer
May 8, 2019, 8:38:16 PM5/8/19
to
m...@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in news:H-adnQPqxPFQyU_BnZ2dnUU7-
LPN...@giganews.com:
> * Game 9, Round 6 - Science - Management Science
>
> 4. Used in process improvement, this term was introduced by Motorola
> in 1980. It refers to achieving success 99.99966% of the time.
> What term are we referring to?
Six Sigma
> 6. The CIO is an important role in the executive layer of
> management. Because of its challenges it is jokingly referred
> to as "Career Is Over". What does CIO actually stand for?
chief information officer
> 7. What expression, which is taken from the military but also used
> in management, expresses the idea that it is detrimental to an
> organization if employees go over their manager, or a manager
> talks to individuals reporting to his subordinates?
chain of command
> 8. What term is used when a manager spells out in minute detail
> everything that needs to be done, leaving their subordinates
> little or no opportunity to use their own judgement to complete
> a task?
micromanaging
> 9. Which management scientist / psychologist defined a hierarchy of
> 5 needs which allows employees in an organization to be motivated
> in their workplace?
Maslow
> * Game 9, Round 6 - Literature - Characters
>
> In each case we name the year, the author, and one character that
> the author created for the book; you give the title.
>
> 1. 1960, John Updike, "Rabbit" Angstrom.
"Rabbit, Run"
> 2. 1992, Michael Ondaatje, Hana.
"The English Patient"
> 3. 1920, Edith Wharton, Newland Archer.
"The Age of Innocence"
> 4. 1926, Ernest Hemingway, Jake Barnes.
"The Sun Also Rises"
> 5. 1951, J.D. Salinger, Phoebe Caulfield.
> 8. 1922, James Joyce, Molly Bloom.
"Ulysses"
> 10. 1985, Larry McMurtry, Augustus McCrae.
"Lonesome Dove"
--
Joshua Kreitzer
grom...@hotmail.com
LPN...@giganews.com:
> * Game 9, Round 6 - Science - Management Science
>
> 2. When an employee hears information from an unofficial source,
> the employee is said to have heard it where?
the grapevine
> the employee is said to have heard it where?
> 4. Used in process improvement, this term was introduced by Motorola
> in 1980. It refers to achieving success 99.99966% of the time.
> What term are we referring to?
> 6. The CIO is an important role in the executive layer of
> management. Because of its challenges it is jokingly referred
> to as "Career Is Over". What does CIO actually stand for?
> 7. What expression, which is taken from the military but also used
> in management, expresses the idea that it is detrimental to an
> organization if employees go over their manager, or a manager
> talks to individuals reporting to his subordinates?
> 8. What term is used when a manager spells out in minute detail
> everything that needs to be done, leaving their subordinates
> little or no opportunity to use their own judgement to complete
> a task?
> 9. Which management scientist / psychologist defined a hierarchy of
> 5 needs which allows employees in an organization to be motivated
> in their workplace?
> * Game 9, Round 6 - Literature - Characters
>
> In each case we name the year, the author, and one character that
> the author created for the book; you give the title.
>
> 1. 1960, John Updike, "Rabbit" Angstrom.
> 2. 1992, Michael Ondaatje, Hana.
> 3. 1920, Edith Wharton, Newland Archer.
> 4. 1926, Ernest Hemingway, Jake Barnes.
> 5. 1951, J.D. Salinger, Phoebe Caulfield.
"The Catcher in the Rye"
> 7. 1927, Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Ramsay.
"To the Lighthouse"
> 8. 1922, James Joyce, Molly Bloom.
> 10. 1985, Larry McMurtry, Augustus McCrae.
--
Joshua Kreitzer
grom...@hotmail.com
Dan Tilque
May 9, 2019, 1:58:58 AM5/9/19
to
On 5/7/19 9:02 PM, Mark Brader wrote:
>
>
> * Game 9, Round 6 - Science - Management Science
>
> 1. Standard management textbooks tell us that a manager should be
> doing four functions. Name any *two*.
>
> 2. When an employee hears information from an unofficial source,
> the employee is said to have heard it where?
at the water cooler
>
>
> * Game 9, Round 6 - Science - Management Science
>
> 1. Standard management textbooks tell us that a manager should be
> doing four functions. Name any *two*.
>
> 2. When an employee hears information from an unofficial source,
> the employee is said to have heard it where?
>
> 3. In an organization what term is used to describe the ability
> of a manager to influence or control others? The same term is
> used in engineering and physics with another meaning.
>
> 4. Used in process improvement, this term was introduced by Motorola
> in 1980. It refers to achieving success 99.99966% of the time.
> What term are we referring to?
>
> 5. What concept in management expresses the idea that the whole
> is greater than the sum of the individual parts? For example,
> if one employee takes one hour to do a task, two employees will
> take less than 1/2 hour to do the same task.
>
> 6. The CIO is an important role in the executive layer of
> management. Because of its challenges it is jokingly referred
> to as "Career Is Over". What does CIO actually stand for?
>
> 7. What expression, which is taken from the military but also used
> in management, expresses the idea that it is detrimental to an
> organization if employees go over their manager, or a manager
> talks to individuals reporting to his subordinates?
>
> 8. What term is used when a manager spells out in minute detail
> everything that needs to be done, leaving their subordinates
> little or no opportunity to use their own judgement to complete
> a task?
>
> 9. Which management scientist / psychologist defined a hierarchy of
> 5 needs which allows employees in an organization to be motivated
> in their workplace?
>
> 10. What term is used to describe an organization where an
> individual may report to two or more people, for example a
> functional manager and a product manager?
>
>
> * Game 9, Round 6 - Literature - Characters
>
> In each case we name the year, the author, and one character that
> the author created for the book; you give the title.
>
> 1. 1960, John Updike, "Rabbit" Angstrom.
> 2. 1992, Michael Ondaatje, Hana.
> 3. 1920, Edith Wharton, Newland Archer.
> 4. 1926, Ernest Hemingway, Jake Barnes.
> 5. 1951, J.D. Salinger, Phoebe Caulfield.
> 6. 1942, Albert Camus, Meursault.
> 7. 1927, Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Ramsay.
> 8. 1922, James Joyce, Molly Bloom.
Bruce Bowler
May 10, 2019, 10:19:26 AM5/10/19
to
On Tue, 07 May 2019 23:02:21 -0500, Mark Brader wrote:
> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2019-04-01, and
> should be interpreted accordingly.
>
> On each question you may give up to two answers, but if you give both a
> right answer and a wrong answer, there is a small penalty. Please post
> all your answers to the newsgroup in a single followup, based only on
> your own knowledge. (In your answer posting, quote the questions and
> place your answer below each one.) I will reveal the correct answers in
> about 3 days.
>
> All questions were written by members of the Cellar Rats and are used
> here by permission, but have been reformatted and may have been retyped
> and/or edited by me. For further information see my 2019-01-22
> companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
>
>
> * Game 9, Round 6 - Science - Management Science
>
> 1. Standard management textbooks tell us that a manager should be
> doing four functions. Name any *two*.
encouraging and mentoring
> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2019-04-01, and
> should be interpreted accordingly.
>
> On each question you may give up to two answers, but if you give both a
> right answer and a wrong answer, there is a small penalty. Please post
> all your answers to the newsgroup in a single followup, based only on
> your own knowledge. (In your answer posting, quote the questions and
> place your answer below each one.) I will reveal the correct answers in
> about 3 days.
>
> All questions were written by members of the Cellar Rats and are used
> here by permission, but have been reformatted and may have been retyped
> and/or edited by me. For further information see my 2019-01-22
> companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
>
>
> * Game 9, Round 6 - Science - Management Science
>
> 1. Standard management textbooks tell us that a manager should be
> doing four functions. Name any *two*.
> 2. When an employee hears information from an unofficial source,
> the employee is said to have heard it where?
> 3. In an organization what term is used to describe the ability
> of a manager to influence or control others? The same term is used
> in engineering and physics with another meaning.
>
> 4. Used in process improvement, this term was introduced by Motorola
> in 1980. It refers to achieving success 99.99966% of the time. What
> term are we referring to?
> 5. What concept in management expresses the idea that the whole
> is greater than the sum of the individual parts? For example, if one
> employee takes one hour to do a task, two employees will take less
> than 1/2 hour to do the same task.
>
> 6. The CIO is an important role in the executive layer of
> management. Because of its challenges it is jokingly referred to as
> "Career Is Over". What does CIO actually stand for?
> 7. What expression, which is taken from the military but also used
> in management, expresses the idea that it is detrimental to an
> organization if employees go over their manager, or a manager talks
> to individuals reporting to his subordinates?
>
> 8. What term is used when a manager spells out in minute detail
> everything that needs to be done, leaving their subordinates little
> or no opportunity to use their own judgement to complete a task?
> 9. Which management scientist / psychologist defined a hierarchy of
> 5 needs which allows employees in an organization to be motivated in
> their workplace?
>
> 10. What term is used to describe an organization where an
> individual may report to two or more people, for example a functional
> manager and a product manager?
>
>
> * Game 9, Round 6 - Literature - Characters
>
> In each case we name the year, the author, and one character that the
> author created for the book; you give the title.
>
> 1. 1960, John Updike, "Rabbit" Angstrom.
> 2. 1992, Michael Ondaatje, Hana.
> 3. 1920, Edith Wharton, Newland Archer.
> 4. 1926, Ernest Hemingway, Jake Barnes.
> 5. 1951, J.D. Salinger, Phoebe Caulfield.
> 6. 1942, Albert Camus, Meursault.
> 7. 1927, Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Ramsay.
> 8. 1922, James Joyce, Molly Bloom.
> 9. 1964, Margaret Laurence, Hagar Shipley.
> 10. 1985, Larry McMurtry, Augustus McCrae.
Pete Gayde
May 10, 2019, 2:07:44 PM5/10/19
to
> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2019-04-01,
> and should be interpreted accordingly.
>
> On each question you may give up to two answers, but if you give
> both a right answer and a wrong answer, there is a small penalty.
> Please post all your answers to the newsgroup in a single followup,
> based only on your own knowledge. (In your answer posting, quote
> the questions and place your answer below each one.) I will reveal
> the correct answers in about 3 days.
>
> All questions were written by members of the Cellar Rats and are
> used here by permission, but have been reformatted and may have
> been retyped and/or edited by me. For further information see
> my 2019-01-22 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
> Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
>
>
> * Game 9, Round 6 - Science - Management Science
>
> 1. Standard management textbooks tell us that a manager should be
> doing four functions. Name any *two*.
Salary and performance review
> and should be interpreted accordingly.
>
> On each question you may give up to two answers, but if you give
> both a right answer and a wrong answer, there is a small penalty.
> Please post all your answers to the newsgroup in a single followup,
> based only on your own knowledge. (In your answer posting, quote
> the questions and place your answer below each one.) I will reveal
> the correct answers in about 3 days.
>
> All questions were written by members of the Cellar Rats and are
> used here by permission, but have been reformatted and may have
> been retyped and/or edited by me. For further information see
> my 2019-01-22 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
> Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
>
>
> * Game 9, Round 6 - Science - Management Science
>
> 1. Standard management textbooks tell us that a manager should be
> doing four functions. Name any *two*.
>
> 2. When an employee hears information from an unofficial source,
> the employee is said to have heard it where?
>
> 3. In an organization what term is used to describe the ability
> of a manager to influence or control others? The same term is
> used in engineering and physics with another meaning.
>
> 4. Used in process improvement, this term was introduced by Motorola
> in 1980. It refers to achieving success 99.99966% of the time.
> What term are we referring to?
>
> 5. What concept in management expresses the idea that the whole
> is greater than the sum of the individual parts? For example,
> if one employee takes one hour to do a task, two employees will
> take less than 1/2 hour to do the same task.
>
> 6. The CIO is an important role in the executive layer of
> management. Because of its challenges it is jokingly referred
> to as "Career Is Over". What does CIO actually stand for?
>
> 7. What expression, which is taken from the military but also used
> in management, expresses the idea that it is detrimental to an
> organization if employees go over their manager, or a manager
> talks to individuals reporting to his subordinates?
>
> 8. What term is used when a manager spells out in minute detail
> everything that needs to be done, leaving their subordinates
> little or no opportunity to use their own judgement to complete
> a task?
>
> 9. Which management scientist / psychologist defined a hierarchy of
> 5 needs which allows employees in an organization to be motivated
> in their workplace?
>
> 10. What term is used to describe an organization where an
> individual may report to two or more people, for example a
> functional manager and a product manager?
>
>
> * Game 9, Round 6 - Literature - Characters
>
> In each case we name the year, the author, and one character that
> the author created for the book; you give the title.
>
> 1. 1960, John Updike, "Rabbit" Angstrom.
> 2. 1992, Michael Ondaatje, Hana.
> 3. 1920, Edith Wharton, Newland Archer.
> 4. 1926, Ernest Hemingway, Jake Barnes.
> 5. 1951, J.D. Salinger, Phoebe Caulfield.
> 6. 1942, Albert Camus, Meursault.
> 7. 1927, Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Ramsay.
> 8. 1922, James Joyce, Molly Bloom.
> 9. 1964, Margaret Laurence, Hagar Shipley.
> 10. 1985, Larry McMurtry, Augustus McCrae.
>
Mark Brader
May 11, 2019, 1:18:17 AM5/11/19
to
Mark Brader:
> 1. Standard management textbooks tell us that a manager should be
> doing four functions. Name any *two*.
Planning, organizing, leading, controlling. 3 for Erland.
I didn't like this question at all; it presumes familiarity with which
books are "standard management textbooks" and further presumes that
all of them agree with each other as to this exact list of functions.
But I decided to score it based on the list of answers originally
accepted, at least to start with. It you were ruled wrong and can
make a case for multiple textbooks supporting your answer, please do.
I think delegating is related to organizing, so I decided to score
the answer of leading and delegating as almost correct. None of
the other answers given were close enough to accept barring protests.
> 2. When an employee hears information from an unofficial source,
> the employee is said to have heard it where?
On the grapevine, or around the water cooler. 4 for Calvin, Erland,
Joshua, Dan Tilque, and Bruce. 2 for Pete.
> 3. In an organization what term is used to describe the ability
> of a manager to influence or control others? The same term is
> used in engineering and physics with another meaning.
Power.
> 4. Used in process improvement, this term was introduced by Motorola
> in 1980. It refers to achieving success 99.99966% of the time.
> What term are we referring to?
Six sigma. 4 for Calvin, Dan Blum, Joshua, Dan Tilque, and Bruce.
> 5. What concept in management expresses the idea that the whole
> is greater than the sum of the individual parts? For example,
> if one employee takes one hour to do a task, two employees will
> take less than 1/2 hour to do the same task.
Synergy or marginal utility. 4 for Calvin, Dan Blum, and Dan Tilque.
At the original game, I made a comment to the effect of "So if you
can produce a baby using one woman in 9 months, using 9 women you
can do it in one month?" And one of my (male) teammates promptly
volunteered to try the experiment.
> 6. The CIO is an important role in the executive layer of
> management. Because of its challenges it is jokingly referred
> to as "Career Is Over". What does CIO actually stand for?
Chief Information Officer. 4 for everyone -- Calvin, Dan Blum,
Erland, Joshua, Dan Tilque, Bruce, and Pete.
> 7. What expression, which is taken from the military but also used
> in management, expresses the idea that it is detrimental to an
> organization if employees go over their manager, or a manager
> talks to individuals reporting to his subordinates?
Chain of command. 4 for Calvin, Dan Blum, and Joshua.
> 8. What term is used when a manager spells out in minute detail
> everything that needs to be done, leaving their subordinates
> little or no opportunity to use their own judgement to complete
> a task?
Micromanagement. 4 for everyone.
> 9. Which management scientist / psychologist defined a hierarchy of
> 5 needs which allows employees in an organization to be motivated
> in their workplace?
Abraham Maslow. 4 for Calvin, Dan Blum, and Joshua.
> 10. What term is used to describe an organization where an
> individual may report to two or more people, for example a
> functional manager and a product manager?
Matrix organization.
*I* got this one right in the original game because the first employer
I worked for after graduation claimed, in my hiring interview, to
be using this method -- but in practice I found myself reporting to
only one person. (Not a problem, I liked her, but it came across
rather as a case of "in theory there is no difference between theory
and practice, but in practice there is a difference.")
> * Game 9, Round 6 - Literature - Characters
> In each case we name the year, the author, and one character that
> the author created for the book; you give the title.
> 1. 1960, John Updike, "Rabbit" Angstrom.
"Rabbit, Run". 4 for Joshua, Dan Tilque, and Bruce. 3 for Calvin
and Dan Blum.
> 2. 1992, Michael Ondaatje, Hana.
"The English Patient". 4 for Joshua.
> 3. 1920, Edith Wharton, Newland Archer.
"The Age of Innocence". 4 for Joshua.
> 4. 1926, Ernest Hemingway, Jake Barnes.
"The Sun Also Rises". 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, and Dan Tilque.
> 5. 1951, J.D. Salinger, Phoebe Caulfield.
"The Catcher in the Rye". 4 for Calvin, Dan Blum, Joshua, Dan Tilque,
Bruce, and Pete.
> 6. 1942, Albert Camus, Meursault.
"L'Étranger", known in English as "The Stranger" or "The Outsider".
4 for Calvin.
> 7. 1927, Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Ramsay.
"To the Lighthouse". 4 for Joshua.
> 8. 1922, James Joyce, Molly Bloom.
"Ulysses". 4 for Calvin, Dan Blum, Joshua, Dan Tilque, and Pete.
> 9. 1964, Margaret Laurence, Hagar Shipley.
"The Stone Angel".
> 10. 1985, Larry McMurtry, Augustus McCrae.
"Lonesome Dove". 4 for Joshua and Bruce.
Scores, if there are no errors:
GAME 9 ROUNDS-> 2 4 6 TOTALS
TOPICS-> His Sci Lit
Joshua Kreitzer 32 24 32 88
Dan Blum 40 24 15 79
Dan Tilque 32 20 16 68
Bruce Bowler 32 16 12 60
Pete Gayde 40 10 8 58
"Calvin" -- 28 15 43
Erland Sommarskog 16 15 0 31
--
Mark Brader "Without nuclear weapons we will be nothing
Toronto more than a rich, powerful Canada...."
m...@vex.net -- A Walk in the Woods, by Lee Blessing
> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2019-04-01,
> and should be interpreted accordingly... For further information
> see my 2019-01-22 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
> Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
> * Game 9, Round 6 - Science - Management Science
Errr... would you believe Round 4?
> Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
> * Game 9, Round 6 - Science - Management Science
> 1. Standard management textbooks tell us that a manager should be
> doing four functions. Name any *two*.
I didn't like this question at all; it presumes familiarity with which
books are "standard management textbooks" and further presumes that
all of them agree with each other as to this exact list of functions.
But I decided to score it based on the list of answers originally
accepted, at least to start with. It you were ruled wrong and can
make a case for multiple textbooks supporting your answer, please do.
I think delegating is related to organizing, so I decided to score
the answer of leading and delegating as almost correct. None of
the other answers given were close enough to accept barring protests.
> 2. When an employee hears information from an unofficial source,
> the employee is said to have heard it where?
Joshua, Dan Tilque, and Bruce. 2 for Pete.
> 3. In an organization what term is used to describe the ability
> of a manager to influence or control others? The same term is
> used in engineering and physics with another meaning.
> 4. Used in process improvement, this term was introduced by Motorola
> in 1980. It refers to achieving success 99.99966% of the time.
> What term are we referring to?
> 5. What concept in management expresses the idea that the whole
> is greater than the sum of the individual parts? For example,
> if one employee takes one hour to do a task, two employees will
> take less than 1/2 hour to do the same task.
At the original game, I made a comment to the effect of "So if you
can produce a baby using one woman in 9 months, using 9 women you
can do it in one month?" And one of my (male) teammates promptly
volunteered to try the experiment.
> 6. The CIO is an important role in the executive layer of
> management. Because of its challenges it is jokingly referred
> to as "Career Is Over". What does CIO actually stand for?
Erland, Joshua, Dan Tilque, Bruce, and Pete.
> 7. What expression, which is taken from the military but also used
> in management, expresses the idea that it is detrimental to an
> organization if employees go over their manager, or a manager
> talks to individuals reporting to his subordinates?
> 8. What term is used when a manager spells out in minute detail
> everything that needs to be done, leaving their subordinates
> little or no opportunity to use their own judgement to complete
> a task?
> 9. Which management scientist / psychologist defined a hierarchy of
> 5 needs which allows employees in an organization to be motivated
> in their workplace?
> 10. What term is used to describe an organization where an
> individual may report to two or more people, for example a
> functional manager and a product manager?
*I* got this one right in the original game because the first employer
I worked for after graduation claimed, in my hiring interview, to
be using this method -- but in practice I found myself reporting to
only one person. (Not a problem, I liked her, but it came across
rather as a case of "in theory there is no difference between theory
and practice, but in practice there is a difference.")
> * Game 9, Round 6 - Literature - Characters
> In each case we name the year, the author, and one character that
> the author created for the book; you give the title.
> 1. 1960, John Updike, "Rabbit" Angstrom.
and Dan Blum.
> 2. 1992, Michael Ondaatje, Hana.
> 3. 1920, Edith Wharton, Newland Archer.
> 4. 1926, Ernest Hemingway, Jake Barnes.
> 5. 1951, J.D. Salinger, Phoebe Caulfield.
Bruce, and Pete.
> 6. 1942, Albert Camus, Meursault.
4 for Calvin.
> 7. 1927, Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Ramsay.
> 8. 1922, James Joyce, Molly Bloom.
> 9. 1964, Margaret Laurence, Hagar Shipley.
> 10. 1985, Larry McMurtry, Augustus McCrae.
Scores, if there are no errors:
GAME 9 ROUNDS-> 2 4 6 TOTALS
TOPICS-> His Sci Lit
Joshua Kreitzer 32 24 32 88
Dan Blum 40 24 15 79
Dan Tilque 32 20 16 68
Bruce Bowler 32 16 12 60
Pete Gayde 40 10 8 58
"Calvin" -- 28 15 43
Erland Sommarskog 16 15 0 31
--
Mark Brader "Without nuclear weapons we will be nothing
Toronto more than a rich, powerful Canada...."
m...@vex.net -- A Walk in the Woods, by Lee Blessing
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