2010 EXAM THOUGHTS

[jsher098]

what did everyone put for the two benefits from conducting Lockes theory apart from improving job satisfaction??
i had no idea i put managers could see:
training and development areas and
it would increase competitiveness between the graduates
would that be alright, do you think???

Culture sounds good... I did productivity and then decreased staff turnover... Culture also sounds good

I talked about increased productivity from the workers, and also because they would be more satisfied, their workplace morale over overall attitudes towards their work would contribute towards a more positive and productive corporate culture... I sorta made the second half up, but is culture actually relevant here and if what I said was justified could I have gotten full marks for that question?

[coolrunnings]

fucked up exam, can i ask what was the structure question worth 6 marks coz i totally mis read it?

[jayna]

Yeahh i think i might of got second half of that q wrong. Made some crap up.... I wrote about The (I was thinking development but wrote ) growth of the graduate from achieving tougher goals. which will benefit Allens Ad Ageny in the future.. or sumthing along those lines. Any idea if this would scrape some marks?

[hs]

i used flatter and matrix becuase i couldnt think of any others, but i think the flatter part was right

[jayna]

Dunno if anyone has mentioned. But case studies where very short and lacked much detail? THen again 7 q's lol.

[coolrunnings]

Does everyone agree there wasn't many opportunity's to give examples. I think after today it feel business has been a waste of two years. All that studying and then complete shit. Managed to average in the 90s all year but be luck to get 60 per cent today im so angry

[8039]

I wrote that it might increase the overall productivity of the LSO since employees are motivated to achieve goals fundamental to the success of the LSO + it also might make them an Employer of Choice and attract new graduates.

Wow I wrote on employer of choice as well for my first example

[8039]

For structure I wrote divisional and functional? is that right? and I justified that functional because she needs a department for manufacturing clothes i.e operations and one to advertise etc

[luken93]

I have come to the conclusion that the Chief Examiner/Writer has a son or daughter.
He just couldn't be bothered writing it, so he gave it to his son/daughter and got them to write it instead.

That's how well it was written

Rather than trying to guess the A+ cutoff, how about we guess the child's age? I'll say ~10

[hs]

hahahah!
i totally agree. hardly any area for examples. well i said flatter and matrix only becuase i knew what to write for them where as functional and divisional i didnt know what to write.

[burbs]

Can't be bothered reading the whole thread. My experience was 20 minutes at the end where I added kotter to my already complete q7 just In case (won't lost will I?) other I'll put my answers up Sunday or something.

[luken93]

Can't be bothered reading the whole thread. My experience was 20 minutes at the end where I added kotter to my already complete q7 just In case (won't lost will I?) other I'll put my answers up Sunday or something.

Burberry!
We were wondering where you were buddy. Aced it did you?

Well to summarise the thread, everyone hated it, it wasn't specific, questions were misleading, and thats about all.

What did you write about for the Management Function Q?

[jayna]

Can't be bothered reading the whole thread. My experience was 20 minutes at the end where I added kotter to my already complete q7 just In case (won't lost will I?) other I'll put my answers up Sunday or something.

To shorten the thread down for you. Pretty much everyone reckons it was a bullshit exam and lots of ppl wrote POLC for the Management Functions q.
I doubt you will lose marks as long as its at the end. If you're original stuff is worth all 10 marks, tbh i think they wont bother reading the rest. How did the rest of the almighty MHS cohort go?

[goldsgym]

Screwed up exam, completely different from the practice one VCAA had put out.
I was shocked that there was nothing on Kotter, Management Skills and Industrial Relations.

For the management function question I wrote POLC, but apparently that's wrong now so there's 8 marks gone.
Overall very frustrated.

[Robbey]

For the management functions, if you did not know what they were you should of just listed 2 management stratergies to reduce customers from leaving or whatever the question asked. Thats what I did, i just listed 2 stratergies, so should be 2/4 marks for that question. Then in the next question just wrote how performence indicators could measure the implimentation of those stratergies. So instead of loosing 8 marks by not answering it you only loose 2. Brilliant scheme