Assignments 70-30_OMBC102_OB Assignment Submission Last Date Time: Dec 31 2023 12:55PM Assignment: 1 Instructions: • Number of Questions: 20 • Maximum Marks: 20 • Each question carries 1 Mark. • All questions are compulsory. • Attempts: 1 1)Which one of the following is not a characteristic of a bureaucratic organisation? Authority Regulations Command structure Change 2) Who is most associated with the Hawthorne studies? Professor Hawthorne Professor Elton Mayo Fritz Roethlisberger and William Dickson Max Weber 3) What is the human relations movement? A theory trying to get everyone to get on better with each other. An academic movement who study the social relations between people and the human factors of management. A view that says you do not need to pay people more to get them to work harder. A new approach to teamwork. 4) Who had developed Scientific Management approach? Elton Mayo Henry Fayol F.W. Taylor A. Maslow 5) Which of the following is not an example of common stereotyping? Age Politics Social Perceptual 6) "The process by which the perception of a person is formulated on the basis of a single favourable or unfavourable trait or impression, where other relevant characteristics of that person are dismissed" compare this statement with one of the following process. clouded judgment the angel effect the halo effect stereotyping 7) Which of the following is NOT an internal motivational force? goals needs Attitude Feedback 8) Who has introduced X and Y theory Mc gregor Peter drucker Henry fayol FW taylor 9) Which character belong to Theory Y employee They enjoy their work and take initiative Always boring and avoid workload Needs to be guideded Must be forced 10) Choose the most significant management skill out of the followings. Technical, Human and Conceptual Technical, behavioral and Conceptual Systematic, Human and Conceptual Technical, Human and cognitive 11) Which of the Following is the feature of Autocratic model of Organization. Employees are treated as partner Employee decision is considered Employees are treated as assets Employees decision is not considered 12) What is the trait approach to personality? Assumes that people are motivated by unconscious emotional conflicts Assumes that each individual has stable personality characteristics Assumes that peoples thoughts and beliefs are central to personality Assumes that people have an innate tendency to become self-actualized 13) Type A personality: Tends to be aggressive Relaxed. Uncompetitive. Tend to be calm. 14) When in perceiving stimuli or phenomena, the tendency is to keep certain phenomena in focus and other phenomena in background this phenomena is one of the following. Perceptual organization Perceptual context Subminimal perception Figure-ground 15) Forces for and against change can exist both inside and outside an organization. True False 16) The encouragement by corporations of their employees' participation in a local fund raising campaign is an example of a socially responsible business activity. True False 17) A planned change of the formally prescribed task and authority relationships in an organization's design is called a structural change. True False 18) Communication is a______process exchange one way three way two way four way 19) The is a shared system of meaning among employees. Organizational systems Collective sensemaking Organizational culture Cultural sensitivity 20) The term "organizational culture" is considered satisfaction" is. while "job evaluative, objective subjective, descriptive descriptive, evaluative objective, subjective Assignment - 2 Instructions Assignment 2 is based on the following text/paragraph of case study/situational exercise etc. You first need to read this text and then answer the following MCMR i.e. Multiple choice multiple response questions. Number of Questions - 5 Each question carries 2 Mark All Five Questions are Mandatory. Attempts-1 Ice Cool Private Limited was an ice cream manufacturing company employing about 100 persons including persons at various levels of management Because of increasing business, the company needed to strengthen its accounting procedure particularly through computerisation. For this purpose, the company decided to hire a new manager, designated as assistant business manager The company invited applications through press advertisement. After receiving the applications, it appointed a selection committee consisting of members of top management including business manager Rakesh Mohan. The committee interviewed several candidates and finally selected Bishwash as new assistant business manager. Bishwash was neat, well dressed and quite articulate. Bishwash joined the company immediately and started working very hard. He used to put extra efforts and even worked during holidays as he did not have any family responsibility. He gained the reputation of being a dedicated and competent employee. his strong point being his knowledge of accounting and computer system. He was reporting to Rakesh Mohan, the business manager who was quite impressed with his working. At that time, the company had no computer system, and its accounting procedures were in need of considerable improvement. Anil Kumar, the managing director of the company, directed Rakesh Mohan to get the needful done. Since most of accounting work related to scales, no Separate accounting department existed and the work was performed under the direction of business manager. Bishwash was mainly appointed to strengthen the accounting aspects of the business. He was asked to prepare a project so that necessary changes can be made. In order to get the first-hand information about the problem, Bishwash began meeting regularly with Anil Kumar without the knowledge of Rakesh Mohan. There was no attempt to have secret meeting -Anil Kumar would just call Bishwash in for a report without bothering to tell Rakesh Mohan. The management team, whose members were with the company for a quite long period, had formed a tight-kait group and appeared satisfied with the company. They all worked together and the company prospered in spite of fierce competition. The meetings between Anil Kumar and Bishwash continued and Rakesh Mohan was audially losing contact with the project and its progress. In fact, Bishwash was almost porting directly to the managing director though he was placed under business manager and trained his title of assistant business manager. Rakesh Mohan was now visibly upset over the development and was also concerned about Bishwash's spreading share of influence. He started feeling down in the company. 1) Predict the situation which will arise because of Mr. Bishwash reporting to Mr. Rakesh? Power conflict Hierarchical problems Proper coordination. Better communication 2) How could Mr. Rakesh Mohan prevent the Bishwash's assumption of power and how specifically could it be done? Maintaining hierarchy in reporting Centralised decision making Trust Loyalty 3) Suggest the course of action now available to Anil Kumar, Rakesh Mohan and Bishwash? Tall structure organization Matrix organization Defining roles and responsibility of every individual Decentralization 4) What could be the organizational situation in the above case? Blame Game Proper coordination Doubtful environment Better communication 5) Analyse the mindset of Mr. Bishwash and Mr. Anil Kumar Superiority complex Feeling down Trust in between Team building in between
