Manager Interview Paper

1. While your manager is absent in a business trip, a customer calls in order to make a major deal regarding a matter out of your responsibility field. Which of the following are you most likely to do;
[personal initiative, risk-taking behavior]
1. I would seek to negotiate with him. 4
2. I would consider that I cannot take responsibility and suggest he waits until my manager returns. 3
3. I would try to contact my manager to be advised on how to handle the issue. 2
4. I would ask the company for permission so as to close the deal.1

2. You have just inherited a large sum of money. Your financial advisor has two suggestions. You can either invest the money with the chance of winning a lot more directly, but also with the risk to lose them

While innovation is a social process requiring collective knowledge and experience, technologies are inherently social products or outputs.
2. Quality systems provide the glue to produce what is needed consistently, and to connect people with the innovations that will meet their needs.1
3. The relationships among technology, innovation and quality are based on creating new value and sustaining the ability to continue creating it in the future.
4. There are two ways new value can be envisioned and created in a future context: peripheral knowledge and combinatory play. These approaches can be applied separately or together.

9. Your job has changed very little in the past few years - you carry out essentially the same daily duties with slight variation, and you've settled into a routine. How are you most likely to feel about your work? [personal initiative, competitive mentality, intellectual curiosity]
1. I like comfortable routine - I'm not thrilled at the thought of change.
2. I like the regularity of the work, but wouldn't object to the occasional change.
3. I don't mind the routine, but sometimes crave more variety.1
4. I'm not happy and would prefer more variation.
5. I'm miserable; I thrive on variety and

Variation of the characteristics and addition of new characteristics can make a product more appealing to the consumer and indeed give a unique product. This, taking a good a price into account, can make a product powerful.1
4. When companies create a product they have specific features in mind. It can be characteristics that improve an existing product or ones that fill a currently unfilled need. Promoting these features can be a successful approach.

11. You have to take a decision, while two different proposals have been promoted by your colleagues. It is essential they are documented, should something goes wrong, to defend your choice as being based on research data. [resourcefulness, examining of proposed actions, quick-wittedness]
1. I require the two documented proposals. Then, I evaluate them and make the final decision.
2. I put the two proposal at the table. We then vote in order to make a decision.
3. I take all the positive aspects of both proposals and then come up with my improved version.
4. I talk to my supervisor so as to explain the situation. I proceed by his