Objectivity and Integrity Flashcards
How will you handle a situation where you disagree with US policy?
Objectivity and Integrity. To be fair and honest; to avoid deceit, favoritism, and discrimination; to present issues frankly and fully, without injecting subjective bias; to work without letting personal bias prejudice actions.
See the other side, as I learned in debate. People far above me have more information.
Describe a time when you had an opportunity to be biased but remained objective.
Objectivity and Integrity. To be fair and honest; to avoid deceit, favoritism, and discrimination; to present issues frankly and fully, without injecting subjective bias; to work without letting personal bias prejudice actions.
Making graduation video… balanced the number of people in the video
Describe a time when you were accused of favoritism. How did you deal with the situation?
Objectivity and Integrity. To be fair and honest; to avoid deceit, favoritism, and discrimination; to present issues frankly and fully, without injecting subjective bias; to work without letting personal bias prejudice actions.
Jamie… I let the family know we had a lot in common but I love them all equally.
Tell us about a specific occasion in which you conformed to a policy with which you did not agree.
Objectivity and Integrity. To be fair and honest; to avoid deceit, favoritism, and discrimination; to present issues frankly and fully, without injecting subjective bias; to work without letting personal bias prejudice actions.
Eleos business model: free environments but cost for app builds. I presented the pros/cons of both sides as best as I could and made my recommended but ultimately the decision wasn’t mine to make. The CEO decided and I felt I had the chance to argue my case. I trust in the decision making process where I can provide input and then ultimately those at higher levels have more information and competition demands they must weigh (which I might not have visibility into.)
Please tell me about a time you had to fire a friend.
Objectivity and Integrity. To be fair and honest; to avoid deceit, favoritism, and discrimination; to present issues frankly and fully, without injecting subjective bias; to work without letting personal bias prejudice actions.
RA giving reprimand to a friend on my hall.
Give me an example of a bad decision that you made and what you learned from that mistake?
Objectivity and Integrity. To be fair and honest; to avoid deceit, favoritism, and discrimination; to present issues frankly and fully, without injecting subjective bias; to work without letting personal bias prejudice actions.
Used Agile Scrum to lead a project where I did not have decidated resources. I had just finished Scrum training and was set on finding a project to use it with. The methodology didn’t work well and the project suffered. I switched project methodologies. I learned that scrum projects really need to have decidated staff in order to be successful within that methodology. That also helped inform my agile waterfall project management because it blended the best of both methodologies.
Please tell me about one or two unpopular decisions you have made. What were the positive and negative outcomes of those decisions?
Objectivity and Integrity. To be fair and honest; to avoid deceit, favoritism, and discrimination; to present issues frankly and fully, without injecting subjective bias; to work without letting personal bias prejudice actions.
Public schooling for kids.
Describe a decision you made that was unpopular and how you handled implementing it.
Objectivity and Integrity. To be fair and honest; to avoid deceit, favoritism, and discrimination; to present issues frankly and fully, without injecting subjective bias; to work without letting personal bias prejudice actions.
“Situation: LU had 350 computers that faculty were using that were nearing the end of leased.
Task: we had to decide to send them back, renew the lease on the same machines, or some combination.
Action: I took the lead on analyzing what to do when they came off lease. My analysis showed that buying those computers at the end of the lease (given their specs, components, and remaining useful life over 5, 10, 15 years) would be a worse financial deal for the university. If we replaced the computers with newly purchased computers and sent back the leased computers, the university would be in a better position financially. I knew this decision would be unpopular with faculty who resisted change because they had the devices setup just like they wanted. So I knew we had to figure out a way to make the change be positive for the faculty. The best way to do that was to get their input so I worked with our Desktop Mgmt Group manager to identify new features in new laptops (lighter, bigger screen, better ports, better battery life, etc.) within our price range and I used that information to identify survey questions to ask faculty about. I then worked with our marketing team to create an email to announce the change (they would be loosing their laptop - so they knew it was coming) but also ask for their input on which new features they would want (giving them some say and input without giving them the ability to make a decision). With the survey results in, I analyzed, and then reviewed with Desk Mgmt manager.
Result: We then joinly presented chosen device to the CIO for final decision. With final decision, I then lead the team through the project of identifying who had the devices, setting up a schedule to get them in to get their new device, transfer data from old to new, etc. Final deliverable was reviewing that all devices had been turned in and we had a few that were MIA that we had to purchase outright.
Lesson: finding ways to present change as a benefit and highlight those items can change something from unpopular to popular.”
