Exam Presentations Final reports 1 Project Presentation Evaluation

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Project Presentation Evaluation - 3 Class will vote on the best presentation. Best presentation will be awarded 10 bonus points. -4 -

Presentation Preparations Advice for projects : http: //wiki. mgto. org/mgmt 1110 On the due date of your project oral presentation, you should: Hand in two hard copies (Fili, Alan) of your presentation material at the beginning of the session. Fill in your individual peer evaluation (presentation project) before the beginning of your lecture session. Online link will be sent to you. Email your final soft copy to Glen (glenng@ust. hk) no later than 9 am on the date of your presentation. You will not be allowed to send a revised version. -5 -

Presentations – Additional Notes Presentations will last 8 minutes with an additional 2 minutes Q&A. – Time will be strictly monitored. At the end of your 8 minutes you will be cut off, so plan your time and rehearse. No less than 2 presenters in each group. Students will vote for the best presentation, which will be awarded 10 bonus points. -6 -

Written Paper Evaluation - 1 -7 -

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Final Paper Submissions Advice for projects : http: //wiki. mgto. org/mgmt 1110 For the written assignment (July 9, 17: 00), you should: Fill in your individual peer evaluation (written project) before the beginning of your lecture session. Online link will be sent to you. One representative of your group to email soft copy of group written assignment to Glen (glenng@ust. hk) before the due date. On the cover sheet of your assignment, you must mark clearly your group number, names and email addresses of all your group members. Note: All assignments will be checked through Turnitin for the course. If you use extra articles or C&P, send those in a separate file. -9 -

Final Exam – Included material Will include all that we’ve discussed in class. Organizational behavior components – – – Organizational Culture (L 14 -15) Personality/Values/EQ-IQ ( L 16) Managerial Ethics (L 17) Motivation (L 18 -19) Leadership (L 20 -21) Groups/Teams (L 22) In-class social psychology experiments & relevance to management – – – Biases, irrationality and illusions (L 13) Conformity in-class experiment (L 16) Goal setting in-class experiment (L 19) Ingroup-outgroup sports shoes (L 22) Twix experiment about cooperation and trust (L 22) - 10 -

Final Exam Emphasis will be given to in-class material (PPTs, inclass exercises) – The book is only meant to support and extend the in-class material. If there’s something in the book which was not covered in class, then it will NOT appear in the exam. Format : Like the mid-term – Multiple Choice – Open Questions – Case study - 11 -

Home Assignments Feedback + Results from inclass activities & Home assignments - 12 -

Example for home assignment – Goal Setting Objectives – 1. To learn how to present an idea to teammates in a precise and concise way – 2. To finish the project in limited time – 3. To get the best grade as deserved - 13 -

Example for home assignment – Goal Setting Related SMART goals – 1. To limit a conversation on an idea to a 3 -minute speech in coming meetings – • Specific: break down a general "idea" to a specific "conversation" – • Measurable: a conversation is to be measured by time – • Attainable: 3 -minute length is a generally-acceptable length of time for a speech with enough elaborations – • Result-oriented: shortening the speech aims to make it precise and concise, with enough elaborations – • Time-frame: applicable as long as there are meetings – 2. To finish my 2 -page draft (SWOT analysis) before Saturday (30/6), 2359 – • • Specific: break down the whole "project" into my personal own part – Measurable: 2 pages is to be the length of my draft – Attainable: there is enough time for writing and polishing the draft. – Result-oriented: aim to leave time for other teammates who are responsible for presentation to prepare, in order to finish the whole project in limited time – • Time-frame: Clearly stated - 30/6, 2359 – 3. To be the best presentation group on the day of presentation – • Specific: "deserved grade" is to be broken down to "the best presentation group" (one of the all elements determining the grade) – • Measurable: course guideline states that everyone will vote for the best group after presentation - best group exists! – • Attainable: as long as we have sufficient preparation, we are strong competent – • Result-oriented: as stated in "specific part", to be the best presentation group is one of the elements determining the grade, and it tends to be an important one – • Time-frame: 4/7 is the day of presentation - that means we have to finish all the preparations and rehearsals before 4/7! - 14 -

Goal Setting Experiment 4 conditions – The 5 goal got : “It is important that you commit to a specific yet attainable goal. Your goal is to create 5 words during the allotted 1 minute using the 7 letters. This goal is difficult, but realistic. In previous studies many students were able to create 5 or more words per round using the same groups of letters you are about to see. ” – The 9 goal got : “It is important that you commit to a specific yet attainable goal. Your goal is to create 9 words during the allotted 1 minute using the 7 letters. This goal is difficult, but realistic. In previous studies many students were able to create 9 or more words per round using the same groups of letters you are about to see. ” – The 16 goal got : “It is important that you commit to a specific yet attainable goal. Your goal is to create 16 words during the allotted 1 minute using the 7 letters. This goal is difficult, but realistic. In previous studies many students were able to create 16 or more words per round using the same groups of letters you are about to see. ” – The “do your best” goal got : “Do your best to create as many words as you can during the allotted 1 minute using the 7 letters on each page. ” - 15 -

Goal Setting Experiment– Round 1 - 16 -

Goal Setting Experiment– Round 3 - 17 -

Goal Setting Experiment - Implications Possible conclusions: 1. 16 was a good motivator. Perhaps not considered impossible (/frustrating). 2. 5 and 9 seems to be less motivating than “do your best”. Specific LOW goals can reduce motivation. For the next experiment (class): 1. Changing the conditions to : goal 5 (easy), goal 16 (difficult but perceived achievable), goal 50 (impossible), and do your best (control condition). 2. Running more than 3 rounds. We saw that it could take time for people to get used to the task. - 18 -

First class - Problem 1 The following ten corporations were ranked by Fortune magazine to be the largest 500 United States based firms according to sales revenues for 2003 : – Group A: Reebok International, Hilton Hotels, Starbucks, Radioshack, Hershey Foods – Group B : Cocono. Phillips, American International Group, Mc. Kesson, Amerisource. Bergen, The Altria Group Which group of organizations (A or B) had the larger total sales revenues in 2003? How do you know? - 19 -

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Problem 2 The best student in my MBA class used to write poetry and is rather shy and small in size. Do your best to guess What was the student’s undergraduate major? – A : Chinese studies – B : Economics - 21 -

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Problem 4 How many words include the pattern in 4 pages of a novel (~2000 words). Indicate your best estimate by choosing one of the following values: 0 1 -2 3 -4 5 -7 8 -10 - 23 - 11 -15 16+ - 23 -

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Problem 5 Imagine that the United States is preparing for the outbreak of an unusual Asian disease that is expected to kill 600, 000 people. Two alternative programs to combat the disease have been proposed. Assume that the exact scientific estimates of the consequences of the programs are as follows. – Program 1 : Safe – Program 2 : Risky Which of the two programs would you favor? - 25 -

Escalation of Commitment-Reminder Bidding for my HK$20 soon exceeded HK$20. Irrational behavior to escalate what seems like a hopeless bidding situation between two parties that don’t want to lose money. - 26 -

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Home assignment - Unethical behaviors in others Most common Copying from another student on the test (5. 0). Receiving help when instructor asked for individual work (5. 45). Asking a student for previously taken exam (5. 09). Least common Lying about age. Taking money without permission. 28 - - 28 -