Examination Fever

                                                 Examination Experience

                                                (Different in every Sense)

 

           The day when I was given the different subject names, I was interested in POM as a subject to study and get a good grasp on it.

            Then came Dr. Mandi and started teaching in a very different way that is different in every sense. Giving me the practical knowledge what is all about Principles of Organizational Management. The way of teaching is something of a sort that me myself have to analyze what the subject wants to talk.

              One day I was going through my inbox and got a mail from Dr. Mandi about the test, scheduled in next 2 days. It was all set as I will be reading it from my book (Stoner). But then I realized what I will be reading, every thing I studied and understood in class was a practical based knowledge. All I need to apply is to recollect all the understanding of all the classes.I dropped the idea of reading it from the book.

                  1 day before the test, Dr. Mandi mailed some sample questions that given me some confidence and an image of my next exam paper. All the questions were in true/false form, we have to answer them followed with an explanation. This test was a great learning experience. It was about true knowledge and understanding without any bookish knowledge and cramming the study material.

                Waiting for another one but after sometime….:)

   

Changing the Picture of Education - KHAN ACADEMY

                            Salman Khan, who has 3 degrees from MIT and an MBA from Harvard, developed the website. He originally posted lessons on You Tube for his young cousin and others soon found the lessons to be effective.That is an extremely powerful idea, and it wasn’t available or possible a few years ago. So- Salman Khan began making his videos for 

his cousins, putting them on YouTube, and we all started to take notice.

KHAN'S VISION

Salman Khan has employed a very successful philanthropic business model, which caters education to anybody with an online access.He asks teachers to consider changing the traditional classroom by allowing students to watch video lectures at home and complete 

"homework" in the classroom.

Learning

A strength of content-based videos, not just from Khan Academy, is that people can view them during their own time frame, reviewing parts that are of particular interest or to develop greater understanding.The method of instruction emphasizes procedures — how to do math — but ignores the conceptual understanding that’s central to authentic learning: what math means. At its core, this is a function of ineffective instruction, which to a large degree is related to ineffective content.

                 But one glaring hole has yet to be undertaken: context.  Khan Academy is a symptom of a teaching profession where too many teachers are too shy or too old-school to jump into the publishing world. We need that to happen faster. Context is key.  Ever wonder why so many of those math videos are boring? You’re missing the context by which they occur in.

                      The proper thinking that he brought to make students study is just an idea to proceed but what he actually done is far more complex than we can imagine.He has got all the information about each and every student that is taking his online classes i.e where he is lagging ,require improvements.He managed his resources in such a way, to provide every student a review of his progress towards each and every chapter or training he take.

                      There is proper step wise procedure for a student to go on to a higher level that brings proper understanding and conceptual base. One teacher can't concentrate on each and every student but he made this possible.Progress of each chapter,progress of each topic is in front of us,we can work upon loop holes.This is a proper management,how to use proper resources to get to a result that say 'WOWWWW' ........       

                             Khan Academy is part of a looming tech-education iceberg. For excellent learning to take place takes passion on the part of the student. Screens encourage passivity; it's already been documented in laboratory studies. Small classes with good teachers teaching what they're knowledgeable about - that's the ideal learning environment.

            

     

LE01

Its my first blog,my first class of Principles of Organizational Management and a very good experience to learn and grasp things.The Prof came with certain things in his hands that left us thinking.He used these things to make us feel the live example to understand.

The Tower Building Exercise:

              The class started with the GOAL SETTING task.There were blocks to build a tower,the class was asked to estimate the number of blocks before the tower collapse.The class came up with different answers and the volunteer also came up with a guess according to his understanding and potential.

The tower building started and finally with lots of efforts and handwork the guy ended up with 18 blocks.Guess What????

The guy himself set the target to 10 blocks but end up with 18 blocks.So the student himself was not confident or was not aware of his full potential.

This task was further modified when the student was asked to build the same tower but this time blindfolded.Now the response of the students were recorded and they came up three different scenarios:

First:

        The students lowered the target.They have a feeling of downgrading the target which should not be the case.As a manager you always have to AIM high not degrade.This will boost the confidence with the challenge in front.


Second:
        The students who stuck to their target.They have the feeling of meeting the same target no matter what hurdles they come across.


Third:
      The students who increased the target.These are the managers who believe in growth in 
tougher times.They always increase their goal limit.




So there are four questions that we need o answer at the time of goal setting:
  
     - What is the potential?
     - What target should be set?
     - What the actual performance be?
     - What can be achieved?


The potential is always at the higher level.Everyone is unlimited with the potential.
The target to be achieved will always be higher than our achieved goals.Achieved goals will give us the confidence to raise our expectations and challenge our potential.

We have to manage organizational resources to get the desired results.

            

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THEORY X and THEORY Y


Managers need to control the things for an organization with their colleagues to achieve the targets effectively.
There are two types of managers:
 - THEORY X: Managers who think their workers are LAZY.
 - THEORY Y: Managers who think their workers are GOOD.

These two types relates the managers to colleagues working under them.There can be 4 scenarios:


* Lazy Employees and Theory X Managers:
       In this case the employees are lazy and correctly so managers thinks the employees are lazy.So the manager will treat the employees in a sense that they are not capable of doing anything which in turn further degrade their performance. This is the dangerous scenario for an organization.

*Good Employees and Theory X Managers:
     This case refers to those managers who think their employees are lazy but they are not.This case will lead to demotivating for the employee.There may be a case where employee get frustrated after performing a good task and still not appreciated by his manager.

*Lazy Employees and Theory Y Managers:
     This kind of scenario needs a skill of a perfect manager.Knowing the fact about a employee that is not good and still keep boosting him for good work is a task for a manager.This is a real asset for a organization that will create an environment of positivity.The lazy employee will surely improve his productivity after seeing so much of faith of his manager.

*Good Employees and Theory Y Managers:
    This kind of scenario will always be a hard working and efficient one.The manager thinks his employees to be good and they indeed are good.This will give best productivity for an organization.The work of the employee will be recognized and awarded.This will boost the confidence of employee.All the challenges will be taken up by the manager and employee.

Studying all the scenarios lead to a conclusion that the managers should be a Theory Y manager which will be beneficial for organization and employee as well.It will create a positivity in the minds of employees towards growth and work.