GM01 Management Functions and Behaviour

Assignment No.I

Assignment Code: 2011GM01B1 Last Date of Submission: 30th Sept 2011 Maximum Marks:100

Attempt all the questions. All the questions are compulsory and carry equal marks.

Section-A Ques. 1 What types of planning do you do in your personal life? Describe these plans in terms of being (a) strategic or operational, (b) short- or long-term, and (c) specific or directional. How would you relate each of these to your goals?

Ques. 2 Why the Hawthorne experiments are considered as an important milestone in the evolution of management theory?

Ques. 3 Describe the four basic stages in the rational model of decision making and problem solving.

Ques. 4 Describe in brief the following a.Scientific management theory b.Classical organizational theory c.Behavioural science theory

Section-B

Kavita was excited. She had just returned from a manager's retreat where MBO had been discussed. This had never been used in her organization before, and she was enthusiastic about implementing the program in her department. She received the OK from her manager, the division head, who did remember having heard of the program several years earlier. Kavita looked over the handout she had received. She was still somewhat confused on who was to choose the goals for the employees. However, she knew that the goals once chosen needed to be specific and have explicit time periods attached. Even though there was a lot of work to do in order to implement the program, Kay was excited. She knew this would prove to be beneficial to the organization. Suggest a practical approach and the plan of action that Kavita could take to implement MBO.

Give a hypothetical Objective Statement that could be used as a stating point for discussion with her employees.

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