178. Question Paper for Blame and Blame Transfer

Question paper for the examination of Paper V (Blame and Blame Transfer), Office Dynamics Course

Answer any five. Each question carries ten marks.

1. Outline what type of background checks you will need to do before

(i) blaming it on the computer,

(ii) blaming it on diarrhea,

(iii) blaming it on the traffic,

(iv) blaming it on global warming.

2. Explain in which circumstances you would accept a blame. Describe what possible plans or ideas a colleague might have if s/he starts accumulating blames.

3. Which type of personalities are best suited for Dumping of Blame? Do you belong to such groups? Justify your observations.

4. Under what circumstances can you blame it on the boss? What safety measures would you take to save yourself in case your boss comes to know about it?

5. Describe the relation between office romance and blame sharing. What factors should you consider before taking her/his blame on your shoulders?

6. (i) Explain why you are not supposed to say sorry to people.

(ii) Explain why people are supposed to say sorry to you.

177. Hard Choices

A husband and a wife are talking at home. The husband is attending the Family Management course and they are discussing the question paper of the examination.

Husband: You are being completely irrational.

Wife: How so?

Husband: You are mixing academics with emotion. They are completely separate things.

Wife: Excuse me! But from your selection of questions in the exam it seems to me you have some very specific ideas.

Husband: It was an exam! I had to write whichever was easier.

Wife: Then please explain how it is so easy for you describe the methods of marrying a girl from another religion?

Husband: It is easy because we have learnt that in class.

Wife: You learnt in class how to marry another girl?

Husband: Theoretically, of course.

Wife: No, seriously. They taught you how to marry people outside your own religion and family?

Husband: Wait a second, now. They taught us the best way to tackle an inter-religious marriage. There was nothing about marrying someone else while you are already married.

Wife: This is why you were attending classes so regularly. I understand now.

Husband: I was attending the classes because you were pushing me to. I had no interests in sitting in a boring family course day after day.

Wife: I sent you there to learn about methods of peaceful coexistence with uncooperative in-laws. In case you do not understand, I am talking about your parents.

Husband: I understand perfectly, thank you. That was also taught in class. You have seen the notes.

Wife: Then why did you not answer that question? There was a question about how to deal with extended family members with minimal effort.

Husband: That was a difficult questions. There would be too many variables and missing any of them could cost me marks.

Wife: Oh I see. It is difficult for you to write about your family. But it is easy for you to write on how to marry a young girl.

(Husband picks up a paper and starts writing)

Wife: What are you writing?

Husband: An authorization letter for you. Now you can write the remaining three papers instead of me. I am out of this.

176. Question Paper for Principles of Profiles

Question paper for the examination of Paper I (Principles of Profiles), Social Media Usage Course

Answer any five. Each question carries ten marks.

1. (i) How can you use your Instagram profile for advertising your start-up?

(ii) How can you use your LinkedIn profile for online dating?

2. Outline the salient features of a Romantic Profile. Describe how you can increase or decrease the romantic nature of your profile in different social media.

3. Define Virtual Falsification. Explain how much of Virtual Falsification is optimum for you and why.

4. What characters should your Facebook display picture have when you, (a) want everybody to find you, (b) want only some people to find you, (c) want nobody to find you and (d) do not want your spouse or parents to find you.

5. (i) What is a Stalking Profile?

(ii) Describe the features of a Stalking Profile.

(iii) How can you keep your Stalking Profile away from and completely unrelated to your basic profile?

6. Describe where the “Log out” buttons are hidden in LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.

175. Question Paper for Working in Team

Question paper for the examination of Paper III (Working in Team), Office Dynamics Course

Answer any five. Each question carries ten marks.

1. (i) Describe ideal gift items for male and female team leaders. 

(ii) You are a team leader. How do you subtly convey to your subordinates what you need as gifts?

2. If pack hunting culture by prehistoric humans have evolved over the ages into corporate team working, describe what the prey of that hunt has evolved into.

3. Outline the basic criteria for selecting the following people in your team: your sick leave replacement, your strike day replacement, your rainy day lift back home, your supporter in the team meetings, your coffee break partner.

4. (i) How can you establish to your superiors in a team that you are a responsible person?

(ii) What are the advantages of being considered as simple-minded and selfless by others in the team?

5. You are a team leader and your team has performed well. You have taken the entire credit and your superiors have suggested your name for a promotion. However, you need a positive feedback from your subordinates to get the promotion. Write a speech for the next team meeting where you ask people to say good things about you and completely defuse the issue of who has taken the whole credit.

6. “Team work is good for you when you know your job well, but it is the best for you when you have no idea what to do.” – Explain.

174. Question Paper for Goal Setting

Question paper for the examination of Paper III (Goal Setting), Time Management Course

Answer any five. Each question carries ten marks.

1. Describe the goals you had set for yesterday. How many of them could you reach successfully and how many partially? Explain your failure with respect to Reluctant Goals.

2. “While trying to achieve your goals, your role is not that of the goal keeper but of a striker who is playing against an ultra-defensive team.” Explain.

3. Compare your goals with that of your grandmother’s and explain why grandparents are distinctly more at peace than their grandchildren.

4. Describe your five most ambitious goals in life. Explain what makes you think you can ever achieve them.

5. (i) What are Principal Goals and what are Subordinate Goals?

(ii) What are your Subordinate Goals when your Principal Goal is “to be happy”?

6. Describe the different methods you can use to demotivate your competitor(s) from realizing their goals and ambitions.

173. Question Paper for Political Systems and Parties

Question paper for the examination of Paper I (Political Systems and Parties), Party Politics Course

Answer any five. Each question carries ten marks.

1. Outline the similarities among left, centre and right parties.

2. What is your country’s Means of Production? How can it be seized? Evaluate the chance of success for the same.

3. Explain why the buildings constructed under dictatorships are drab, gigantic and colourless while subversive political graffiti is compact, loud and colourful.

4. Describe the various methods used to rig elections and buy voters for senate elections in ancient Rome.

5. (i) Select any national party in India. Justify why this party is the best candidate to rule the country. 

(ii) Select another party. Do the same.

6. (i) Explain how it is so easy for Foreigners to come to your country and get the jobs that you do not get.

(ii) Name three parties and/or communities who are selling the country. Explain who is the buyer.

172. Question Paper for Joint and Nuclear Family

Question paper for the examination of Paper I (Joint and Nuclear Family), Family Management Course

Answer any five. Each question carries ten marks.

1. Write short notes on the following with respect to an Indian urban joint family:

i) Division of labour

ii) Cost sharing

iii) Space allocation

iv) Jealousies 

v) Domestic help

2. i) Give five reasons why you might need other family members around you. Explain.

ii) Give ten reasons why you do not need other family members around you.

3. You are living in a joint family and you are planning to marry a person from a different religion. You do not want to be cut off from your family after marriage. Describe with justification the steps you would need to take to maximize your chance of success in bringing the family and the spouse under the same roof.

4. Describe the benefits of a joint family. How is it possible to access the same benefits and advantages while living separately in a nuclear family?

5. Explain why people do not prefer joint families anymore even though they offer financial fallback options, supply of manpower in health and sickness, a solution to loneliness and opportunities of clandestine and incestuous sexual affairs.

6. You live in a nuclear family and have neither the time nor the patience for your other family members. Describe the mimimum effort you will need to put in to ensure you will not die alone and rot in a carcass dump.

171. Syllabus for Macro Management

Part of the syllabus of Paper V (Macro Management), Time Management Course

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2. Planning for different phases of life. Different phases of life: childhood in assembly line, teenage in hangers, 20s on the runway, take-off at 30s, ascend at 40s, cruising at 50s, descent at 60s, landing at 70s, exhibit for children from 80s. Plane crashes. Missing the flight. What happens during a hijack. Understanding aerodynamics: pressure makes planes fly. Airport hangers and bird cages. On the runway: awareness of the existence of other planes. Learning to scan beyond the clouds while taking off. Ascend: flying high with the seatbelt fastened. Cruising into the sunset. How to chalk out landing plans while taking off and set them in motion while still ascending. Old WWII planes around the world. 

3. Planning ahead. Things to consider: money, lack thereof, family, children, wimpy children, useless grown-up sons and daughters, bank loans, loan retrieval policies of banks (…)

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5. Disruptions and deviations from a planned life. People who were not supposed to die. The meeting you should have attended. The traffic jam that should not have been. The promotion you were supposed to get. The boss who refused to die and burn in hell. The property you should have inherited. The wife who was supposed to be supportive. The husband who was supposed to be a teetotaler. The world that was supposed to understand your struggles.

170. When Failure is Imminent

A participant of the Time Management course has pasted the following hand-out from class on the wall above his study table at home. 

Goal Readjustment

What to do when a set goal cannot be achieved and failure is unavoidable? THIRTEEN suggestions:

1. Change the goal to something different. Justify by saying times have changed.

2. Shorten the goal to something that has already been achieved. Justify by saying one should not overdo things.

3. Extend the timeline. Justify by saying more extensive homework is needed.

4. Hint on some greater goals you are actually trying to achieve. Do not give details.

5. Spend time with people who will recite “It is not your fault.”

6. Say that Scientology has influenced you to take things more slowly.

7. Say that latest research findings in the related field has changed a lot of things. As reference name some random US university in collaboration with some random Japanese university.

8. Blame it on the recession.

9. Act like it is obvious the goal cannot be achieved. 

10. Make it look like anyone questioning your ability has no idea what they are talking about. Practice smirking.

11. Get emotional and do unexpected things if anyone asks why you are missing the deadline. Cry if you are a male and throw things if you are a female.

12. Try to brainwash people with bribes or threats into taking the blame.

13. Work your *** out and get the ******* job done on time.

169. Syllabus for Family Politics

Part of the syllabus of Paper IV (Family Politics), Family Management Course

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2. Status. Static status and dynamic status. Rise and fall of status within the family. Conduction, convection, radiation and evaporation of status. Family status built upon job, money, property, lineage and connection to political hoodlums.  Self-implied status. (…) Status by marriage. Status difference between father and father-in-law and how to make the most of it.

3. Politics without elections. The concept of decentralized multi-party feudalism. Advantages and disadvantages of seniority. Role of children. Goals of family politics: ego, revenge and justice. Concept of reconciliation. Transient reconciliations. Concept of being angry on someone till they die.

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5. Favours. Trading, selling and accumulating favours. How to take a favour from a family member. Returning a favour. Situations where a return favour is not imperative/not necessary/not important/avoidable/can be ignored. Asking for more favours after not returning previous favours. Reasons people help unworthy family members: sustenance of bloodline, emotional weakness, egoistic pleasure, disposal of black money, peer pressure, social expectations, to ensure probable return favours when needed.