HRM2018 Seminar Week 16

Case 1:  A student uses an internet article in researching her paper. She finds several of the ideas in the article useful and develops them in her own paper. Since she does not quote from the text, she does not cite it in her paper, but she does put the reference in the bibliography.

• Plagiarised

• Not plagiarised

• Unsure

Case 2:  You are taking a class that a friend has already taken. She lets you read her paper in order to get some ideas and tells you to use any parts of the paper you find useful. You incorporate most of her paragraphs into your paper without citation and in the same logical sequence.

• Plagiarised

• Not plagiarised

• Doesn't matter

Case 3:  A friend offers to let you read his paper in order to get some ideas and tells you to use any parts of the paper you find useful. You incorporate one of his paragraphs into your paper, and you are careful to include all of the citations from his paper in your footnotes, so that the reader will be able to find the original source of the information.

• May be

• Plagiarism

• Not plagiarism

Case 4:  A student finds a picture on the web that perfectly illustrates a point she wants to make in her paper. She downloads the picture but does not use the website’s analysis; in addition, she writes her own caption for the picture. Since the analysis and caption are her own, she does not include a citation for the picture.

• Not plagiarism

• Unsure

• Plagiarism

Case 5:  A student uses a data set collected by his professor in his analysis of economic trends. Since he develops his own analysis, and since his professor has not published the data, he does not include a citation for the data set.

• Plagiarism

• Not plagiarism

• Unsure

Case 6:  You find an interesting analysis of Kant’s categorical imperative in a book on 18th century philosophers. You do not quote directly from the text, but you mention the author of the book as the source for this idea and include a citation at the end of the paragraph.

• Plagiarism

• Not plagiarism

• Unsure

Case7 :  You find a very interesting quote from Gregor Mendel’s “experimentation in plant hybridization” in a book about Mendel’s life. In your paper, you include the quote, and cite Mendel’s paper as the source.

• Plagiarised

• Not plagiarised

• Unsure

Who is the founding father of scientific management theory?

• Frank Gilbreth, Sr.

• Lillian Gilbreth

• Frederick Taylor

• Max Weber

What tool does scientific management theory not utilize?

• Quantitative analysis

• Scientific and engineering principles

• Workplace satisfaction surveys

• Statistical data

Frederick Taylor viewed the worker as __________________