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Areas that are predominately warehousing, light manufacturing, or assembly zones and that are created under state statutes are calleda. research parks.b. enterprise zones.c. special-purpose properties.d. business parks.
Ministorage, unlike many other types of industrial property, isa. not designed to meet the needs of any par-ticular industry.b. located in downtown commercial areas.c. always designed for business clients.d. not managed by professional property managers.
The ability of a property manager to assess a market and implement sales promotion is MOST critical when dealing witha. retail property.b. industrial property.c. ofce property.d. special-purpose property.
Income-producing properties that offer services are known asa. government and charitable institutions.b. retail strip centers and regional shopping malls.c. retail space and regional malls.d. ofce property and business parks.
The construction of multifamily unit ownership housing has been stimulated bya. the varieties of ownership means by which they may be held.b. government-assisted nancing programs.c. rising land and construction costs.d. the invention of the steel frame building.
The professional property manager formulates plans toa. generate the most amount of money.b. maintain 100% building occupancy.c. enhance the prestige of the property.d. achieve the objectives of the owner.
Which of the following types of real estate properties utilizes more professional property managers?a. Industrialb. Commercialc. Special-purposed. Residential
Examples of special-purpose properties includea. manufactured home parks.b. loft buildings.c. enterprise zones.d. nursing homes.
Incubator spaces are most likely to be found ina. loft buildings.b. research parks.c. ministorage areas.d. special-purpose properties.
Which of the following professional organizations has the longest history?a. Building Owners and Managers Association International (BOMA)b. National Apartment Association (NAA)c. Institute of Real Estate Management (IREM)d. International Council of Shopping Centers(ICSC)
All of the following should be goals of the professional property manager EXCEPTa. maintain 100% occupancy.b. generate income to the owner.c. increase value of the property.d. accomplish the objectives of the owner.
The growth of shopping centers has been stimulated bya. population shifts to the suburbs.b. declining construction costs.c. urban renewal programs.d. the International Council of Shopping Centers.
The traditional concentration of retail property in downtown areas became decentralized as a result ofa. development of light industry in the suburbs.b. development of multifamily apartment buildings.c. evolution of the suburban shopping center.d. expansion of public transportation.
The demand for professional property management that occurred in the late 1800s resulted primarily froma. reshaping the urban center by building tall buildings with elevators.b. increasing concentration of retail activity in downtown urban areas.c. increasing availability of land for development.d.
Why should a property manager be concerned about ethics?
List reasons why property owners would choose to hire a property manager rather than manage the property themselves.
Jeff, like most property managers, discovered that he preferred a specic type of property management. What are the advantages or disadvantages of working as an employee manager as opposed to working as a third-party manager?
Are there any missing actors from the cycle? What about the role of the mass media? National newspapers, television? Has it had any role in the diffusion of knowledge on knowledge management? - Is this cycle useful in understanding the processes and agents involved in the production and consumption
What role have large professional service firms played in the production and consump- tion of knowledge on knowledge management? - Do particular organizations have a more important role than others? - Is there evidence of colonizing activity?
What about the role of academia, business schools, and individual academics? - Is their role primarily the testing/refinement and legitimation of existing knowledge? - Are there particular universities, academics, or departments (business schools, IS/IT departments) that have played a particularly
Can you fill in more details for the unexplored category consumers? - Are consumers passive victims of passing fads? Can you develop subcategories of different types of consumer?
Who (if anyone) are the gurus of knowledge management? - Are they consultants? Academics? Both? -Through what mechanisms have their arguments been diffused (books, lectures, teaching, consultancy,...)
Where (if anywhere) is the start of the cycle?
Is knowledge intensiveness a useful concept for defining knowledge work, or does the term contain too much ambiguity to be useful?
In Frenkel et al.'s conceptualization of work, knowledge work is defined as work where the predominant form of knowledge is theoretical knowledge. However, does this underestimate the extent to which such work also involves the use of contextual knowledge? Think of a specific knowledge-intensive
The illustrative example of Dell (see p. 200) showed that it had a centralized hierarchical structure, and utilized a codification-based knowledge management strategy. To what extent are such knowledge management strategies compatible with hierarchical structures? Further, would such a knowledge
Ford and Chan (2003), in one of the few studies to examine the effect of cultural differences on organizational knowledge processes, found that language competences significantly affected such processes. In general, informal knowledge flows were most likely within cultural groups, while formal
Hofstede (1988, 2001) argues that distinct national cultures can be identified. To what extent does your own personal experience confirm or challenge this? Further, do such cultural differences significantly hinder processes of knowledge-sharing?
ln analyses of the advantages of network and virtual organizational structures, stark contrasts are usually made with hierarchical structures, which implicitly assumes they are oppositional in nature. However, to what extent is this a false dichotomy? How compatible are hierarchical principles with
Network forms or organizlng can be intra- or inter-organizational. How different will be the process of developing of a common/shared sense of identity in these two types of networks? What factors will affect the dynamics of such processes?
Based on Vour own experiences of, and knowledge of work, how common is the 'free-rider'problem in organizational life? Furthel what affects whether people are likely to 'free+ide' on collective goods/knowledge? ls a sense of identity with and commltment to a community/network typically enough to
The stage mode of innovation processes can be criticized as being too simplistic because it ignores the extent to which stages overlap, etc. However, to what extent do the innovation processes undertaken by most companies have some element of a linear trajectory between specific stages?
Rhetoric suggests that innovation processes are important for most companies as their environments are highly turbulent, requiring constant change and adaptation. Is there a certain element of hyperbole to such claims, or is constant change and innovation a reality for a large number of companies?
One of the main critiques of the learning organization literature is that managements are typically unlikely to 'give up' and share power in the way necessary to facilitate proper learning and self-reflection. Do you agree with this? If so, what, if anything can be done to persuade such managers
Compare the two definitions of the learning organization outlined in the chapter. Which do you most agree with, and why?
The advocates of the learning organization suggest that critical self-reflection and open debate on norms and values are fundamental to learning organizations. However, Coopey and Burgoyne (2000) suggest few organizations provide the 'psychic space' where such reflection can occur. Do you agree
Given the embeddedness of power and conflict within organizations, are Garvey and Williamson unrealistic about the ability of organizations to create open, egalitarian cultures where knowledge and ideas can be shared freely?
Some research suggests that money alone is unlikely to motivate people to share their knowledge. Can pay systems be used to motivate people to develop or display suitable attitudes and behaviours towards knowledge processes?
Do most organizations have a single, dominant culture, or is it more typical that they have distinctive subcultures with their own values and knowledge? What factors affect the extent to which organizational culture is coherent?
The critique of Information Richness Theory (IRT) discussed challenged the idea that any communication medium has an objective and fixed level of communication richness, and that instead the richness of any communication process would be shaped by the relationship between people, and their skills
When ICTs are used for knowledge management purposes there appears to be a preference for using off-the-shelf products and then attempting to customize/modify the organizational context, rather than customizing or designing technological systems to be compatible with existing organizational
Arguably, an either/or logic predominates in much of the literature which compares technology-mediated and face-to-face methods of communication and knowledge-sharing processes, where they are considered to exist at the opposite ends of a spectrum, and where the use of one mode of communication is
What type of workers, if any, are likely to be empowered through the utilization of knowledge repositories to store and codify knowledge?
Compare the two conceptualizations of power examined. Can you relate either/both of them to your own experience?
The chapter assumed that power and knowledge are closely related, if not inseparable. Can you think of any ways in which knowledge can be used in organizations which do not involve the use of power in one way or another?
In general, how compatible are the interests of workers and their employers over how workers knowledge is used? Does the requirement by organizations to derive economic value from it mean conflict is likely or inevitable?
Reflect on any work experience that you have had. To what, if anything did you and your work colleagues most strongly feel a sense of identity as being part of: your immediate work group, the function you worked in, the division you worked for, or the overall corporate group? Are these senses of
Theory suggests that more impersonal forms of trust, such as commitment-based trust or institutionally based trust are typically weaker and more fragile than trust developed through an ongoing social relationship, such as process-based trust. Does this reflect your own experience?
The prevalence of interorganizational networking can be gauged by a simple piece of research. Examine the business section from any serious daily newspaper and you are likely to find relevant examples. However, is this type of working practice likely to be more common in some business sectors more
Based on any organizational experience you have had, what effect have communities of practice had on organizational knowledge processes? Have they been largely or purely positive and beneficial? Has there been any negative aspects to them such as knowledge hoarding, or an unwillingness to accept
How relevant and accurate is the 'community of communities' metaphor for describing the knowledge base of any organizations you have worked in? Does this downplay the amount of common knowledge which is typically shared by workers in business organizations?
If you are, or have been a member of a community of practice, how were you socialized? How did you develop the knowledge, values, and identity that characterize membership? Did your socialization closely resemble the process of legitimate peripheral participation described by Lave and Wenger?
Have you found trust to be an important factor underpinning attitudes to knowledge-sharing? Have you had any experiences where a lack of trust has inhibited knowledge-sharing, or where the existence of trust has facilitated it?
How compatible have your and your employing organization's interests been with regard to how you have used your knowledge? Have the organization's goals and your own always been harmonious, or have there been any conflict and tensions over how you use your knowledge?
Based on your own experience, what has been the attitudes of work colleagues to sharing their knowledge? Have you found them to be willing to share, or has hoarding been more typical? What are the most important factors which explain this behaviour?
Which one more closely models the nature of knowledge in the organizations that you have worked in? lf these organizations implemented knowledge management initiatives, which epistemological perspective were they based on? Did this affect the success of these initiatives
Compare the two perspectives on knowledge outlined in Chapters 2 and
Can you think of an example from your own experience of where there has been dispute and conflict between competing knowledge claims? What political tactics and strategies did the conflicting parties utilize to justify their position? Did they use external 'expertise' as a way of rationalizing
Think about an example of partially explicit knowledge you are familiar with, for example a set of instructions on how to conduct a certain task. What tacit knowledge is necessary for you to make sense of them? What does this say about the inseparability of tacit and explicit knowledge?
To what extent is knowledge in the social sciences objective? If knowledge in organizations is acknowledged as being somewhat subjective, does this mean objectivist-based knowledge management strategies have limited utility?
Does the use of IT as part of a knowledge management system always indicate an objectivist perspective on knowledge? Have any of the organizations you have worked in developed IT-centred knowledge management systems? Did they embody objectivist assumptions regarding knowledge? How successful were
National culture and communities of practice have been discussed as two types of social context/setting where collective knowledge can be seen to exist. In what other social contexts, in your own experience, have you witnessed collective knowledge to exist- organization, family, geographic region,
Think about your experience of social/group knowledge in the workplace. Is it largely tacit or explicit? Did it exist in the form of systems of rules, routines, stories, etc.?
What uses are there for knowledge other than organizational profit? Draw up a list of uses to which knowledge in organizations could be put. For example, to protect or advance the interesis of a particular subgroup. How many examples can you think of ? Having done this, reflect on the extento which
What is your position on the knowledge society debate? Do the contemporary changes in economic and social life represent a fundamentally different society, deserving the 'post' prefix?
Are you, or have you been a knowledge worker? Reflect on any work experience you have had. What type of knowledge was important (contextual, skill-based knowledge, or abstract, theoretical knowledge?). Could the jobs you have done be described as knowledge- intensive? Do they fit with the classical
A number which when divided by 10 leaves a remainder of 9, when divided by 9 leaves a remainder of 8, when divided by 8 leaves a remainder of 7, etc., down to where, when divided by 2, it leaves a remainder of 1, is:(a) 59 (b) 419 (c) 1,259 (d) 2,519
In a party, where everybody shakes hand with everybody else, total number of handshakes = 28.What is the number of persons present in the party?(a) 14 (b) 28 (c) 56 (d) 8
How many numbers between 3,000 and 7,000 (both inclusive) can be formed with the digits 0, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7 and 8 with repeated digits?(a) 1,029 (b) 1,028(c) 1,030 (d) 1,031
If x and y are positive integers such that 3x + 7y is a multiple of 11, then which of the following will also be divisible by 11?(a) 4x + 6y (b) x + y + 4(c) 4x – 9y (d) 9x + 4y
Which term in the series 3 + 10 + 17 + ...and 63 + 65 + 67 + ... is common?(a) 9 (b) 13(c) 14 (d) 15
Five studentstried to get the sum of the first 21 positive primes, and only one student was correct. A got 709, B got 711, C got 712, D got 717 and E got 713. Who was correct?(a) A (b) B(c) C (d) D
If supply is constant for each of the years given above, then for which year capacity is highest?(a) 2003 (b) 2004(c) 2005 (d) 2006
Which year shows the highest increase in the difference between the industry capacity and supply over the previous year, if demand for the product is 10,000 kg for each of the given years?(a) 2003 (b) 2004(c) 2005 (d) 2006
If the product supply remains unchanged for the given period then what does the trend of industry capacity signify?(a) Industry capacity steadily increases over the given period.(b) Industry capacity steadily decreases over the given period.(c) Industry capacity fluctuates over the given period.(d)
If capacity of the industry to produce the product remains constant at 10,000 kgs, what is the approx. average supply (in kgs)for the given period?(a) 5,100 (b) 5,375(c) 4,400 (d) 6,200
If product supply for the year 2005 is 6,000 kg, then the total capacity of the product is (in kg):(a) 12,500 (b) 16,500(c) 10,000 (d) None of these
There is a natural number which when divided by 4 and 5 gives 3 as the remainder in each case. What is the lowest such number?(a) 23 (b) 43(c) 103 (d) 13
In a maternity centre, 5% of all the childbirth cases result in twins and all other deliveries result in single child. What is the approx. percentage of twins out of total children born?(a) 5% (b) 7.6%(c) 9.5% (d) 10.4%
Two varieties of rice are mixed in the ratio 2:3. Price of mixture is ` 12 per kg and price of the variety having lower weight is` 10 per kg. Find the price (`/kg) of other variety.(a) 13.33 (b) 12.66(c) 13 (d) 12
For how many integers n, n 20 − n is the square of an integer?(a) 0 (b) 1(c) 2 (d) 3
How many odd integers from 1,000 to 8,000 have none of its digits repeated?(a) 1,628 (b) 1,736(c) 392 (d) 1,344
Product of two natural numbers A and B = 10,000. How many distinct HCF of A and B are possible?(a) 1 (b) 9(c) 16 (d) Infinite
What is the inradius of the right-angled triangle ABC?(a) Perimeter of the triangle ABC = 90 units(b) Length of hypotenuse = 41 units
Five integers A, B, C, D and E are arranged in such a way that there are two integers between B and C and B is not the greatest.There exists one integer between D and E and D is smaller than E. A is not the smallest integer. Which one is the smallest?(a) E is the greatest.(b) There exists no
What is the maximum value of a b?(a)a, a + b and a + 2b are three sides of a triangle.(b) a and b both are positive.
If nC4, nC5 and nC6 are in AP then n is:(a) 8 (b) 9(c) 14 (d) 9
300 persons are participating in a meeting in India, out of which 120 are foreigners, and the rest are Indians. Out of the Indians, there are 110 men who are not judges;160 are men or judges, and 35 are women judges. There are no foreign judges. How many Indian women attended the meeting?(a) 60 (b)
If | x2 – 7x + 12 | > x2 – 7x + 12, then:(a) x ≤ 3 or x ≥ 4(b) 3 ≤ x ≤ 4(c) 3 < x < 4(d) x can take any value except x = 3 and x = 4.
A bought 4 bottles of B and B bought one bottle of L, L per bottle costing twice that of the B. C bought nothing but paid ` 50 for his share of the drink which they mixed together and shared equally. If C’s ` 50 covered his share, then what is the cost of the L per bottle?(a) 50 (b) 75(c) 30 (d)
Two rockets approach each other, one at 42,000 mph and the other at 18,000 mph.They start 3,256 miles apart. How far are they apart (in miles) 1 minute before impact?(a) 1,628 (b) 1,000(c) 826 (d) 1,200
In a community of 175 persons, 40 read the Times, 50 read the Samachar and 100 do not read any. How many persons read both the papers?(a) 10 (b) 15 (c) 20 (d) 25
How much did he pay for the book?(a) ` 328 (b) ` 288(c) ` 400 (d) ` 648
A discount of 18% on the marked price of book enables a man to buy a pen worth`
A and B working together can finish a job in T days. If A works alone and completes the job, he will take T + 5 days. If B works alone and completes the same job, he will take T + 45 days. What is T?(a) 25 days (b) 60 days(c) 15 days (d) 225 days
How many times in a 24-hour day will the minute and the hour hand be at 90º or 270ºto each other?(a) 44 times (b) 66 times(c) 96 times (d) 48 times
The perimeter of a rectangular field is 84 m.If the length of the field is increased by 3 m and its breadth decreased by 1 m, then the area of the field is increased by 15 m2.What is the difference between the length and breadth of the original rectangle?(a) 12 m (b) 15 m(c) 41 m (d) 8 m
Two candles of the same height are lighted at the same time. The first one is consumed in 4 hours and the second one in 3 hours.Assuming that each candle burns at a constant rate, in how many hours after being lighted wasthe first candle twice the height of the second?(a) 3/4 hrs (b) 1½ hrs(c) 2
The sum of three numbers is 98, the ratio of the first to the second is 2/3, and the ratio of the second to the third is 5/8. The second number is:(a) 15 (b) 20(c) 30 (d) 32
Maulik and Gyan work in the same office and stay in the same home. When they walk to their office with normal speed, Maulik reaches 15 minutes before Gyan.But if Gyan leaves 10 minutes before his usual time, Maulik has to walk at twice his original speed to reach 15 minutes before Gyan reaches

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