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Module 1 Activity (BES 047)

This document contains an engineering management module which includes several skill-building and assessment activities. The skill-building activities involve identifying types of skills, management functions, roles, and levels of management in various situations. The assessment activity is a short quiz to check understanding, consisting of multiple choice and true/false questions about engineering, management, and management roles.

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Module 1 Activity (BES 047)

This document contains an engineering management module which includes several skill-building and assessment activities. The skill-building activities involve identifying types of skills, management functions, roles, and levels of management in various situations. The assessment activity is a short quiz to check understanding, consisting of multiple choice and true/false questions about engineering, management, and management roles.

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Name: Solomon, Stepherson S.

BES 047: ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT


Section: UP-2BSCE-C

Module #1

Introduction to Engineering Management

Activity 2: Skill-building Activities. (20 min)

A. Identify each skill in the following situations as being one of the following:

a. Technical b. Conceptual c. human

1. The ability to see things as a whole and as the interrelationship of their parts.

-b

2. The ability to motivate employees to do a good job.

-c

3. The ability to perform departmental jobs such as data entry in a computer.

-a

4. The ability to determine what’s going wrong and correct it.

-b

5. The ability to write memos and letters

-a

B. Identify whether each of the five situations describes one of the five management functions listed

below.

a. Planning b. Organizing c. Directing d. Controlling e. Staffing

6. The manager is showing an employee how to set up a machine for production.

-c

7. The manager is determining how many units were produced during the first half

of the shift

-b

8. An employee has been absent several times. The manager is discussing the

situation and trying to get the employee to improve attendance.


-a

9. The manager is conducting a job interview to fill the position of a retiring

employee.

-e

10. The manager is dividing a large sales territory into smaller territories.

-d

C. Identify each of the five roles below as:

a. Interpersonal b. informational c. decisional

11. The manager discusses the new union contract with union representatives.

-a

12. The manager shows an employee how to fill out a form.

-b

13. The manager reads The Wall Street Journal with a cup of coffee first thing in the

morning.

-b

14. The manager develops new total quality management techniques.

-a

15. The sales manager discusses a complaint with a customer.

-c

D. Identify the level of management in the following five instances as:

a. Top b. middle c. first-line

16. Supervises the operative employees

-c

17. Has greater need for conceptual than technical skills.

-c

18. Spends more time leading and controlling.

-b
19. Reports to an executive.

-b

20. Has a more balanced need for the management skills and functions.

-a

Activity 3: Check for Understanding (5 min) This is a short summative assessment.

I. Direction: Encircle the letter for the best answer to complete each statement.

b 1. Engineering is:

a. An art b. both science and art c. A science d. none of these

a 2. Engineers can become good managers only through _________.

a. Experience c. effective career planning

b. Taking master’s degree in management d. trainings

c 3. What management functions refers to the process of anticipating problems, analyzing them,

estimating their likely impact and determining actions that will lead to the desired outcomes and

goals?

a. Leading b. Controlling c. Planning d. Organizing

d 4. What refers to the establishing interrelationships between people and things in such a way that

human and materials resources are effectively focused toward achieving the goal of the

company?

a. Planning b. Leading c. Controlling d. Organizing

b 5. What management function involves selecting candidates and training personnel?

a. Organizing b. Staffing c. Motivating d. Controlling

a 6. Which of these statements best summarizes the meanings of management?

a. Only a few experienced people in an organization are managers

b. Management is both a general human activity and a specialized occupation

c. Management is a job conducted by those with special training

d. Only people in formal organizations act as managers

b 7. Technical skills include ___________.

a. Leadership and efficiency in a certain specialized field


b. Knowledge of and proficiency in a certain specialized field

c. Familiarity with and interest in a general field of endeavor

d. Skill and interest in a general field of endeavor

d 8. All of the following are management roles that are more important at the higher levels of the

organization except ________.

a. Leader b. disseminator c. figurehead d. negotiator

a 9. Managers with good ________ are able to get the best out of their people.

a. Human skills b. conceptual skills c. technical skills d. visual skills

d 10. What role will Don be performing when he gives the plant tour to the newspaper reporter?

c. Figurehead b. Liaison c. Disseminator d. Spokesperson

II. Complete the crossword puzzle below.

ACROSS
2. construction

3. management

4. level2

6. research

7. teaching

8. testing

9. engineer

DOWN
1. engineering

2. consulting

5. level3

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