Strategic Management TECEP

[icampy]

How is edition 19? I found one for 4 bucks and bought it.

[Ideas]

Can someone with edition 16-18 please PM me as soon as they see this. I need a little bit of help in a topic or two and would really like to know what your version says. It is about corporate culture, 2 primary factors and 6 ways to foster it. I am not finding anything in my book they says anything about primary factors or ways to foster it. I have smaller questions after that if you can, but please please PM me. I take this TECEP on Sunday.

I think I saw it in the 20th edition, but the two factors were just implied, and the 6 weren't in list format.

Sorry for not being more helpful yet.

[bghill]

Can anyone vouch for the 19the edition I rented it off Amazon and I'm about half way through the first half, holy crap it's hard to memorize something that I find tedious and boring Should I really be reading this book word for word? Or is there a way to streamline it a bit?

The way I did it was not to read the whole thing. I read the chapter summaries, and then looked at everything that was called out in some way: diagrammed in one of the illustrations, in a bulleted or numbered list, or defined in a glossary box in the margin. And even with that stuff, I did some skimming.

And I will repeat, look closely at the topics listed on the official TECEP test description. If the topic isn't on the description, you don't need to do more than glance at it for background understanding -- you don't need to study it. For example, most of the stuff on strategy execution. Oh, and you can pretty much ignore all of the case study stuff -- not just the whole second half of the book, but the ones that are sprinkled through the first half.

I can't speak to the 19th ed., as I used the 18th, but I couldn't agree more about the tediousness of it!!:ack:

[bricabrac]

Can someone with edition 16-18 please PM me as soon as they see this. I need a little bit of help in a topic or two and would really like to know what your version says. It is about corporate culture, 2 primary factors and 6 ways to foster it. I am not finding anything in my book they says anything about primary factors or ways to foster it. I have smaller questions after that if you can, but please please PM me. I take this TECEP on Sunday.

In the 18th Edition it's under Chap 12. I'll try to extract the pages and send to you via PM. If it doesn't work here's some basic info which may make it easier to search your text.
pp.394-5 Core Values & Ethical Standards

The list you may be looking for is in a paragraph on p.396:
Perpetuating the Culture once established, company cultures are
perpetuated in six important ways: (1) by screening and selecting new employees
that will mesh well with the culture, (2) by systematic indoctrination of new
members in the culture's fundamentals, (3) by the efforts of senior managers to
reiterate core values in daily conversations and pronouncements, (4) by the telling
and retelling of company legends, (5) by regular ceremonies honoring employees
who display desired cultural behaviors, and (6) by visibly rewarding those who
display cultural norms and penalizing those who don't?

[bghill]

Do you think someone just starting out with trying to test out can pass this test? I just started straighterline finished sociology working on 4 accounting classes now and the micro and macro economics. I have a few business classes done but we're done a few years back. My biggest worry is the money difference between the TECEP and the actual course.

If you test well and you put in the time to study the recommended textbook, I think it's do-able.

You'd basically be gambling $117 against $1,500 (or whatever the cost of the course would be when you take it).

[Synicaal]

In the 18th Edition it's under Chap 12. I'll try to extract the pages and send to you via PM. If it doesn't work here's some basic info which may make it easier to search your text.
pp.394-5 Core Values & Ethical Standards

The list you may be looking for is in a paragraph on p.396:
Perpetuating the Culture once established, company cultures are
perpetuated in six important ways: (1) by screening and selecting new employees
that will mesh well with the culture, (2) by systematic indoctrination of new
members in the culture's fundamentals, (3) by the efforts of senior managers to
reiterate core values in daily conversations and pronouncements, (4) by the telling
and retelling of company legends, (5) by regular ceremonies honoring employees
who display desired cultural behaviors, and (6) by visibly rewarding those who
display cultural norms and penalizing those who don't?

This is on page 347 of the hard cover of the 20th edition book in chapter 12. It now has 8 things instead of 6. I'm going with the list you put up on here and not the one in the book, I'll stick with the older stuff.

[bricabrac]

This is on page 347 of the hard cover of the 20th edition book in chapter 12. It now has 8 things instead of 6. I'm going with the list you put up on here and not the one in the book, I'll stick with the older stuff.

The school is currently using the 19th Ed, 2014 for the course. We usually go back min 1-2 editions for TECEP exams because they are not revised as often.

[Synicaal]

The time is upon me lol, Strategic Management TECEP to start in about 23minutes from now!! Taking these last few minutes I have left to go over notes and try and pick up another vocal word or two. Well and of course checking in on the good members of degree forum. I feel like if I get passed this hurdle It will be smooth sailing for me from here on. I keep going back and forth on wether or not to cancel my exam and schedule it for a few more weeks out but I want to be able to get in for June exam if for some reason I don't pass it so I will be taking it in 20minutes.

[jsd]

Hope all is going well! Good luck!

[ajs1976]

Good luck!