JG: James Gagliardi

Kaleidoscope

Although I am "learning" though out the year as part of being back in school, I have made it a habit to not just use things we've learned. Part of #52projects is for a self discovery, but occasionally a school project will merit using it as my weekly project.

For my Organization Behavior course, we discussed the four frames of organizations, the class was broken into 5 groups, one for each of the four frames and one group discussing how each frame is effected by working in a global organization. Since I work for a global company I volunteer to be in the global frame.

Each group needed to come up with a team name. We chose "Kaleidoscope," which was to represent that everyone's view is different. The colors and patterns are constantly coming together in new, different & beautiful patterns, just like in this global economy/market people and companies are coming together in new, different, creative, and inspiring ways.

We decided we were going to create a game, in the spirit of The Game of Life, with questions about organization structural, company politics, human resource differences, and symbolism in a region/country/company.

One of the challenges and interesting take-aways while constructing the trivia questions is that there can be a fine line between generalities and stereotypes. The differences we highlighted were intended to be generalizations, not absolutes, and that individuals may think, act, and be different based on their life experiences. (The dictionary sums up the the differences as a stereotype will ignore new information, while a generalization can continuously change based on new information)

Here is a sample of the 50 questions I came up with:

While in your office in the Philippines, you hear an associate mention she’s looking forward to the 13th Month. What does she mean?

You have a Chinese employee that has celebrating their 10 year anniversary with the company. As customary, you give a gift. What gift should avoid giving as a gift?
A. A Name brand item
B. Clock
C. Wine
D. Polo Shirt with company logo

A soon-to-be first time father, an employee in your German office plans to take (unpaid) parental leave. How long is he requesting to take off?
A. 3 Months
B. 6 Months
C. 1 Year
D. 3 Years

You are staying at a Japanese hotel and are given a room on the 13th floor (usually removed from US hotels). You ask for a room on a different floor. As you enter the elevator, you notice a button missing for what floor?

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