NPTEL Ethics in Engineering Practice Sheet 8A

Malabar organic is known for it's freshly ground good coffee. It has outlets in the metro cities. Prominent aspects of its organizational culture include: high levels of empathy, good interpersonal relation, recognition and praise for good work, the practice of giving and receiving constructive feedback, high levels of employee engagement, employee success is taken seriously, policies that ensure employees feel respected and valued. Clearly the value orientation of Malabar organic represents

• Shareholder value

• Intellectual autonomy

• Finance orientation

• People orientation

Howard Lombardi is best known as the coach for the Green Bay Packers. He signed a five-year contract with Green Bay in 1983. Under his leadership, the team never had a losing session. He used to motivate athletes to apply discipline in training. He instill a high level of commitment to do their best to win prizes. Suppose some athletes do not show a high will to progress. In that case, the coach would ignore them and exclude them from international competitions. He displayed---leadership style.

• Transactional

• Service oriented

• Charismatic

• Laissez faire

Within the aviation industry, agencies have benchmarked promptness, accuracy, and courtesy against each other. This is an example of

• Balanced scorecard

• Hoshin planned

• Reverse engineered

• Benchmarked

The essence of leadership is captured in the following points (identify the incorrect statement/s)

• S1 & S4 are misrepresented.

• S1 & S3 are misrepresented.

• S1 & S2 are misrepresented.

• None of the above

Mr Navanil is the Testing Technology Team Leader at Relloite, they analyze a competitor's product in order to determine whether they had used some of Relloite's code in their product. This is an example of

• Value engineered

• Reverse engineered

• Used Generative Al

• None of the above

An _________ name goes on the patent (which may be owned by some other party), but unlike an __________ name, which is usually included in a copyrighted work (whether or not s/he retains the copyright), the _________name may not appear anywhere except on the patent. In that case, it may be less likely that most users of an invention will ever know the name of the___________.

• Author’s , inventor’s, , author’s , author

• inventor’s, author’s, inventor’s, inventor

• inventor’s, owner’s, inventor’s, wordsmith

• inventor’s, author’s, author’s , author

The objective/s of open door policy is to

• Productivity decline for leaders

• Encourage employees to take their workplace concerns, questions, or suggestions outside their own chain of command without worrying.

• In their willingness to share all of their problems and ideas with management, these individuals become overly dependent on company leaders.

• Managers Turn Into Therapists with non worked related issues.

Researchers at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) typified value orientations of companies. These are

• Democratic orientation, the quality of its service, financial bottom line

• Financial bottom line, the quality of its service, triple bottom line

• Democratic orientation, learning orientation, financial bottom line

• Financial bottom line, customer satisfaction, quality of products

Managers display the following characteristics

• They do the right things.

• They are their own persons.

• They keep an eye on the horizon.

• They rely on control.

The complaint procedures must have certain characteristics

• Fairness is a non-essential component to it.

• It does not have to be aligned with the company culture.

• Formal procedures must guarantee the process, without creating a legalistic atmosphere.

• Privacy can be breached while making the general nature of the problem public.