ADMS1010 MIDTERM EXAM QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
What are the different functions of business that we will cover in this course? - Answers
- - Management
- Organization theory
- Business ethics, CSR, sustainability, emergency management
- Economics and strategy
- Accounting
- Finance
- Management science, operations and supply chain management, international
business
- Human resources management, organizational behaviour
- Marketing, public relations, communication
What is critical thinking? - Answers - -To question, analyze, or make sense of
something
-Approach to:
--Reading
--Thinking learning
-Involves:
--Asking questions
--Examining assumptions
--Weighing the validity of arguments
What are the qualities of a critical thinker - Answers - - Self-aware
- Curious
- Independent
Self-aware - Answers - - Introspective
- Know personal biases
- Name strategies used to make judgments
Curious - Answers - -Explore beneath the surface of issues
-Try new approaches
-Seek new viewpoints
Independent - Answers - -Listen to an learn from others
-Develop their own informed opinions
-Make their own judgments
How can we improve critical thinking? - Answers - - Uncritical acceptance (memorize
and repeat)
- Critical assessment (analyze and challenge)
, Uncritical acceptance (memorize and repeat) - Answers - -The textbook/readings are
definitive truth
-The information presented is fact
-The instructor as expert
Critical assessment (analyze and challenge) - Answers - -The textbook/readings offer a
perspective
-The information presented is contestable
-The instructor as guide
What is critical discourse? - Answers - A research method for studying written or spoken
language in relation to its social context
What are troubles with experts? - Answers - -Lots of time, we form our opinions to what
experts say. That's because we think that since they are experts, they know better
-Huge percentage of experts don't know what they are talk about
-wine experiment
Why does Parker think that business schools need to be bulldozed? - Answers - -Huge
influence...intellectually fraudulent
-Selling ideology as if it were science
--The virtues of capitalist market managerialism are sold as if there were no other ways
of seeing the world
-Business ethics and CSR...window dressing
-Business school assumes capitalism, corporations and managers as
default...everything else is peripheral
Who is a manager? - Answers - The person in charge of the organization or one of its
subunits
What was the intent of setting up business schools? - Answers - To develop a
professional degree like those in law and medicine
-Manage corporations in the interest of a variety of stakeholders:
--Shareholders
--Customers
--Employees
--Society
-Codes of ethics
-Standardized body of knowledge
What is the classical view about the role of managers? - Answers - -Plan
-organize
-Coordinate
-control
What is mintzberg's view about the role of managers? - Answers - -Interpersonal roles
What are the different functions of business that we will cover in this course? - Answers
- - Management
- Organization theory
- Business ethics, CSR, sustainability, emergency management
- Economics and strategy
- Accounting
- Finance
- Management science, operations and supply chain management, international
business
- Human resources management, organizational behaviour
- Marketing, public relations, communication
What is critical thinking? - Answers - -To question, analyze, or make sense of
something
-Approach to:
--Reading
--Thinking learning
-Involves:
--Asking questions
--Examining assumptions
--Weighing the validity of arguments
What are the qualities of a critical thinker - Answers - - Self-aware
- Curious
- Independent
Self-aware - Answers - - Introspective
- Know personal biases
- Name strategies used to make judgments
Curious - Answers - -Explore beneath the surface of issues
-Try new approaches
-Seek new viewpoints
Independent - Answers - -Listen to an learn from others
-Develop their own informed opinions
-Make their own judgments
How can we improve critical thinking? - Answers - - Uncritical acceptance (memorize
and repeat)
- Critical assessment (analyze and challenge)
, Uncritical acceptance (memorize and repeat) - Answers - -The textbook/readings are
definitive truth
-The information presented is fact
-The instructor as expert
Critical assessment (analyze and challenge) - Answers - -The textbook/readings offer a
perspective
-The information presented is contestable
-The instructor as guide
What is critical discourse? - Answers - A research method for studying written or spoken
language in relation to its social context
What are troubles with experts? - Answers - -Lots of time, we form our opinions to what
experts say. That's because we think that since they are experts, they know better
-Huge percentage of experts don't know what they are talk about
-wine experiment
Why does Parker think that business schools need to be bulldozed? - Answers - -Huge
influence...intellectually fraudulent
-Selling ideology as if it were science
--The virtues of capitalist market managerialism are sold as if there were no other ways
of seeing the world
-Business ethics and CSR...window dressing
-Business school assumes capitalism, corporations and managers as
default...everything else is peripheral
Who is a manager? - Answers - The person in charge of the organization or one of its
subunits
What was the intent of setting up business schools? - Answers - To develop a
professional degree like those in law and medicine
-Manage corporations in the interest of a variety of stakeholders:
--Shareholders
--Customers
--Employees
--Society
-Codes of ethics
-Standardized body of knowledge
What is the classical view about the role of managers? - Answers - -Plan
-organize
-Coordinate
-control
What is mintzberg's view about the role of managers? - Answers - -Interpersonal roles
