It depends if the paperwork is just a form or is content driven.
For example, I have a pre-production thru closing checklist I put together since I started freelancing - it's all content, and it's part of who am I, my style, and how I work - it's a pretty dang valuable piece of a paperwork, and helps me be a better stage manager. Taking this document is not a compliment at all.
Taking my prop list, my contact list, and using the format with your own content is a bit different.
Here's the thing to think of . . .
Take it out of stage management.
A designer puts together a sound design for a show. Not only with content, but with a specific way of building the show.
And then a younger designer uses the same sound design for another production of the show.
You see the problem with that, right?
My paperwork is part of my stage management style, and if you want my paperwork, you should hire me, or my team. It's put together with my knowledge and experience of (gulp) 28 years working as a stage manager (and god knows how long working in theater now). And then to pass off my work as your work. Not cool.
Lastly, my paperwork is usually put together by my entire team, so I always feel protective if a piece of a paperwork is lifted from us - because I feel like it's stolen from my team. I have one assistant who is very proud of some of his excel and filemaker forms . . . I would NEVER share those with anyone else since I know the hours he has put into making them work just right.
Again, it's all of matter of perspective. If you like the paperwork, and want to us it, ask, just don't take. I am very generous in letting people use the forms, especially members of my team as they go out and do more work. And my paperwork is used at a lot of former theaters I have worked at as a resident guy, but I was reimbursed.
I guess you either see the paperwork as a result of your hard work and experience - a particular way of working, organizing and communicating, or you just see it as ink on paper. I see it as the first way, not a gollumesque way of hoarding over paperwork - that is not me nor my style at all (in reality, I only usually do Calendars and Contact sheet - my team does the rest).
The point of this post, judging a SM by a paperwork sample in an interview scenario is pointless. It could just be the format the school/theater/organizations uses.