GP07 examination tips

Ladies & gentlemen, here are the tips that our dear tutor has given to us after the last presentations. For those of you who have missed the lesson, I hope you can make sense of what I wrote here because I did not sleep the night before just to finish rushing the report & presentation. For those of you who were there for the lesson, compare this with what you have copied & if there are any differences, please let me know.

Do ignore the comment about ass rimming.


Here are the parts which I think are important.

Lecture 1 (Understanding Organization)

• Introduction to organization (its vision, mission & values)
• Characteristic features of an organization
• Elements of organization structure
• Function of organizations

Lecture 2 (Organization Coporate Culture)

• Definition of coporate culture
• Cultural typologies (types of organizational structure lah!!!)
• Fostering a people-centered culture
• Examples of cultural change

Lecture 3 (Creating Team-based Organizations)

• Principles for managing people in a team-based organization
• Understanding the elements of a team-based organization
• Establish measurement criteria & feedback systems
• Performance based rewards and compensation

Lecture 5 (Framework for Organization Change) (Should be one of the more important lectures)

• Needs & benefits to change
• Conditions for organizational change
• Models for systematic planned change
• Analysing change models

Lecture 6 (Concepts for Management of Change)

• Targets of organization change
• Task of implementing change
• Problems & barriers to change
• Importance of employee participation & involvement in change
• Guidelines to implementing change

Lecture 8 (Organization Development Techniques & Skills)

• Definition of OD (not overdose hor!!!, organizational development hor!!!)
  
• Characteristics of OD process
• OD techniques
• OD skills

Lecture 10 (Motivation)

• Myths of motivation
• Theories of motivation
• Integrative approaches to motivation

Lecture 11 (Holistic Approaches to Managing Change)

• Total Quality Management (TQM) (I got a feeling this is not crucial)
• Success factors in TQM (I also got a feeling this is not crucial)
• Business process re-engineering (I feel that we should concentrate on this)

I want to disclaim that these tips are what I have taken note when Francis Lim gave a short summary of what is important. There are by no means conclusive or definitive. Do not treat it like it will come out in the exams. Tutors & lecturers have a bad reputation of confusing students with tips. Just study hard & if I have done a proper revision, I will post whatever I have discovered here. So do watch for any updates or new posts.

Gambattee!!!

Ja neh!!!