Discussion Questions Week 15 Essays

Discussion Questions Week 15 Essays Discussion Questions Week 15 Essay Discussion Questions Week 15 Essay Essay Topic: Discussion We Real Cool Name: Tutor: Course: Date: Discussion Questions Week 15 Section 8 1. What is a confidence game? A confidence game describes the manner in which the victim loses property or cash (Ritti and Levy, 263). It involves acquiring advantage of the victim’s confidence in the greater echelons of organizational hierarchy by the swindler. Usually, the swindler gains the trust of the victim in a specific manner and in turn, the swindler relies on another inside person in order to trick the victim. 2. What is meant by a corporate cooling out? Usually, the cooling out by a corporation involves taking a step towards alleviating the victim of a confidence game. Usually, victims of confidence games face low self-esteem and lack of confidence due to the deduction that the trust, which they offered to a particular person, the swindler, is shattered. 3. What is the purpose of a corporate cooling out? As such, since a corporate cooling out involves taking steps in alleviating victims of a confidence game, the purpose of the corporate cooling out is to ensure that the victim or the mark, is provided with face-saving grounds due to him or her being deprived of position or rank. 4. What is ‘transmotion’ and how are employees typically transmoted? Transmotion is the process of integrating transfer and demotion (Ritti and Levy, 264). In this process, employees are transferred from one docket to another, in the event, the employees are transferred from a higher wage level to a lower wage level, and as such, transmotion corresponds to a downward transfer. 5. What is the purpose of transmoting employees instead of just retiring or firing them? The purpose of transmoting employees is to allow for the organization to continue making use of its employees as beneficial assets to the organization. This is because terminating the activities of a division poses drastic impacts on the corporation’s performance and as such, transmotion becomes practicable in order to cool out the mark and save employees (Ritti and Levy, 264). Chapter 56 1. What are some reasons or arguments to support Ted’s view of dual career system? A dual career system provides employees with the opportunity of staying within a technical career or transferring to a management career. In this case, Ted alleges that the dual career system only forces the opportunity for employees to gain retention due to the different sets of tasks they possess without considering the objective. As such, the dual career system is inconsistent since a particular task such as a cool out can be performed by both management and expert counselors. 2. What are some arguments to support Kal’s view of the dual career system? According to Kal, the dual career system possesses an opportunity for advancing in management and another opportunity in another parallel vocation such as counseling. As such, Kal notes that a corporate cool out for a mark can be performed by both counselors, also known as coolers and the management (Ritti and Levy, 266).3. Are the top staff managers always top technical people who simply don’t have the skills to supervise others? Why or why not? Usually, most staff managers do not possess the skills of supervision. This is because most of them do not possess a different set of skills required in both technical and management fields that usually depend on centralized and decentralized authority within the organization. Alternately, top technical people usually gain promotions based on their merit and as such, the aspect of supervision becomes ignored.4. Have you in your previous experience been a part of a dual career system? Yes. I was required to possess the technical skills of operating a computer. Simultaneously, irrespective of my technical background, I was required to supervise and counsel other novel employees on performing the work and delegating specific duties to employees as well.5. Does the â€Å"dual career ladder† concept make sense? The dual career concept indeed makes sense in every organization. One of the main aspects that allows for the support of the dual career concept involves the retention of employees. Employees that possess a different set of skills that border on the aspect of technical and management aptitudes can be a great resource and as such, prevent the corporation from retrenching or firing its workers.Chapter 581. In terms of the four steps of the confidence game, what is going on at the laboratory?Four StepsStep one: The mark learns that he or she can make a real killing . . .Step two: Some form of confidence building activity . . . .Step three: The â€Å"sting.† Angry and humiliated, the mark contemplates action. Even more than money, it is the loss of self-esteem that motivates the mark to action.Step four: The â€Å"cool out.† The cooler’s job is to convince the mark to accept the loss stoically, without protest. In the first step, the victim is confident that he will receive maximum payoff by either acquiring something at a lesser price than its worth or through increasing his money. In the second step, the victim is allowed to seize the wager of the operator within the game at the time he bids his own wager. The third step involves the victim losing his wager of which he loses his money and decides to take action. The fourth step, the victim is convinced of letting go of taking action and instead calm down as he regains his confidence (Ritti and Levy, 263).2. Why does Kerry say that â€Å"If Ted actually understood the process he wouldn’t be half as effective†? Kerry says that because he believes that Kerry does not understand the cool out process and as such, if he grasped the concept, he would be effectual.3. Are there other industries (besides basic research) which use the concept of the confidence game? The concept of confidence game can also be used in the service industry. Usually, the concept of the confidence game is used effectively in casinos. Usually, customers are allowed to wager their bids against the operator and usually win after the initial round, but as their confidence increases, the operator takes advantage and takes their wager.4. Do you think the confidence game works for these industries? The concept of the confidence game works effectively for these industry. This is because most marks or victims do not report the swindle based on the assertion that they understood the risk of entering into the game.Chapter 601. Why does the company go through this charade instead of just â€Å"dumping Drake and moving on?† The company does not admit to dumping Drake for someone who is more flexible due to the importance Drake holds within the organization. The company acknowledges that Drake has been a considerable asset to the organization and thus is conflicted in firing him since he is responsible for the company’s current position (Ritti and Levy, 288).2. Can Kerry possibly refuse the offer of distinguished scientist? Offering Kerry the job of Distinguished Scientist actually echoed transmotion in the sense that he was transferred to a new position but he had been stripped of his power. As such, Kerry would object to the appointment based on his dual career experience.3. Why was ploy #3 more successful than the first two? Ploy #3 was indeed more successful since it allowed the firm to transfer Kerry to a new position but using a safer context.4. Do you know anyone that has been cooled out? No, I do not know any person who has ever been cooled out. Ritti, R. Richard and Steve Levy. The Ropes to Skip and the Ropes to Know: Studies in Organizational Theory and Behavior. Hoboken: John Wiley Sons, 2010. Print.