MB0038–Management Process and Organizational Behaviour

SUMMER-2015

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Master of Business Administration- MBA Semester 1

MB0038–Management Process and Organizational Behaviour-4 Credits

(Book ID: B1621)

Assignment (60 Marks)

Note: Answer all questions (with 300 to 400 words each) must be written within 6-8 pages. Each Question carries 10 marks 6 X 10=60

Q1.  List and describe the different strategies in the Organization.

• Listing the strategies

• Explaining the strategies

Answer. Types:-

1. Growth Strategy.

2. Product Differentiation Strategy.

3. Pre-skimming strategy

Q2.  What do you mean by Decision Making? Explain Decision making under certainty, uncertainty and risk. Describe the steps in Creative Decision making.

• Definition of Decision making.

• Decision making under certainty, uncertainty and risk

• Steps in Creative Decision making

Answer. Decision making can be defined as the way of choosing from the alternatives. When trying to make a good decision, a person must weigh the positives and negatives of each option, and consider all the alternatives. For effective decision making, a person must be able to forecast the outcome of each option as well, and based on all these items, determine which option is the best for that particular situation.

Q3. What is meant by ‘span of control’? Differentiate between narrow span of control and wide span of control. What are the factors that influence the span of control?

• Meaning of ‘span of control’,

• Difference between narrow span of control and wide span of control,

• Factors that influence the span of control

Answer. Span of control: The number of subordinates that a manager or supervisor can directly control. This number varies with the type of work: complex, variable work reduces it to six, whereas routine, fixed work increases it to twenty or more.

Q4. Define Organizational behavior. What are the various approaches to Organizational behavior? 

• Definition of OB

• Approaches to OB

Answer. OB can be defined as a systematic study that investigates the impact of individuals, groups and organizational factors on productivity to include effectiveness and efficiency, absentee, turnover, organizational citizenship behavior and job satisfaction. Organizational behavior is the study of both group and individual performance and activity within an organization.

Q5. Perception is the way we see and interpret things. Explain the importance of such ‘perception’. What are the factors affecting perception?

• Importance of perception,

• Factors affecting perception

Answer. A process by which individuals select , organize & interpret inputs from their senses in order to give meaning to their environment.

Importance of Perception in an organization:-

1. It forms a basis for feeling and actions in the organization.

2. It is science that makes new way for matching people in their job.

Q6. Give the definition and importance of ‘motivation’. Describe Maslow’s hierarchy of needs theory.

• Definition of motivation,

• Importance of motivation,

• Maslow’s hierarchy of needs theory

Answer. Internal and external factors that stimulate desire and energy in people to be continually interested and committed to a job, role or subject, or to make an effort to attain a goal.

Motivation results from the interaction of both conscious and unconscious factors such as the

(1) Intensity of desire or need,

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