Student questions:
Q: Personality Differences: Was that where it discusses the self esteem, self efficacy, self concept, learned helplessness, proactive personality and self mentoring.
A: Those terms are all associated with this topic. We focused on personality traits in some detail in the first two sessions of this segment (#2). One of these traits was high and low Machiavellianism, but there were several others.
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Q: Two Career Life Cycles: One was the tradition cycle, but I couldnt figure out what the other one was. Also what are the differences between the two.
A: If you've reviewed the traditional and modern overlapping life cycles and considered the duration of the curves in each, you'll know most of what you need to know on this.
Q: Time Management skills and strategies: Would this include scheduling and prioritizing, I know what I understand what it is but i don't know the formal definition to them.
A: Those terms are used according their usual dictionary definitions. You'll also want to know something about the tools people use: to-do lists, action plans, etc.
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Q: Are job sharing and work sharing the same thing?
A: They are not the same thing, though many sources (including Wikipedia) conflate the two terms.
Job sharing is an employment arrangement where typically two people are retained on a part-time or reduced-time basis to perform a job normally fulfilled by one person working full-time.
Work sharing is a reduction of working time intended to spread a reduced volume of work over the same or a similar number of workers in order to avoid layoffs. There was an example of this in the session 2 online video.
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Q: session 16: I am having some difficulty understanding this section, about the employer's rights over the employees. I am confused on what we need to know for this section. I did both the readings where it discussed some of the ways an employer can track the employee through the cameras, computer keystrokes, background checks, etc.
A: As long as you remember the main ideas in the readings and the more prominent (even shocking) examples from the streaming video of lecture content, that will be enough.
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Q: in the career life cycles can u explain more on the modern cycle. I understand the traditional cycle but wanted to know the major differences with the modern and traditional.
A: My proposed modern cycle features several shorter careers instead of a single lifelong career.
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Q; the definitions of the three different types of justices and how they differ from each other.
A: These are described in the text and along with organizational justice in the online lecture.
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Q: what exactly is the job characteristics model.
A: This job design model is depicted in the text and notes associated with session 12, and also in the related flip videos on educreations.com.
Horizontal and vertical type personalities, i am really confused on those definitions.
Horizontal and vertical as used in this class are descriptions of loadings (motivational approaches to job design), not to personalities.
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Q: what is co-located mean, and how does that compare with virtual teams.
A: Co-located teams are ones in which members are all at the same location—the opposite of virtual teams.
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Some Social Networking Terms..from sessions 11 and 13:
- Interpersonal ties carry information and imply a connection
- Strong ties, e.g., family and friends
- Weak ties, limited time and intimacy invested
- Absent ties, with mutual recognition but little or no information exchanged
- Microcelebrities – narrow and transient fame, often virally Internet-based
