Leadership theory and styles related to employee motivation

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Part -1:

Do you think when managers make decisions they follow the decision making steps as has been conceptualized in the rational decision making model?

Which steps are likely to be overlooked or given inadequate attention? What can be the possible consequences of overlooking any of the steps?

1. How can the field of OB contribute to the effective functioning of organizations and the well being of the individual?

2. How are leadership theory and styles related to employee motivation? Explain with suitable examples.

3. Discuss in detail the contribution of Taylor to the development of Management thought.

4. Do you think when managers make decisions they follow the decision making steps as has been conceptualized in the rational decision making model? Which steps are likely to be overlooked or given inadequate attention? What can be the possible consequences of overlooking any of the steps?

5. "Participation is an excellent method for identifying differences and resolving conflicts". Do you agree or disagree. Discuss with suitable examples.

Part -2:

Marks 10

1. Why does communication break down? How can communication be improved?

2. What is departmentalization? Why is it required? Discuss any one form of departmentalization.

3. What do you understand by authority and power? How are they different from each other?

4. Case study: Please read the case study given below and answer questions given at the end.

Questions:

1. "The management of RKM Enterprises is not professional and is family based". Analyse and comment.

2. Analyse the changes brought in by Rohit.

Part -3:

1. Which of the following was NOT a need proposed by David McClelland's Theory of Needs?

(a) The need for power

(b) The need for esteem

(d) The need for achievement

2. Managers engage in to increase their power and pursue goals that favor their individual and group interests.

(a) Organizational politics

(b) Political decision making

(d) Self satisfaction

3. Which of the following is NOT A motivator according to Herzberg?

(a) Achievement

(b) Relations with others

(d) Responsibility

4. Cognitive Dissonance theory has been given by

(a) Taylor

(b) Vroom

(d) Skinner

5. The purpose of feedback in communication is

(a) To ensure that message has been understood

(b) To carry the message back from receiver to sender

(d) All of the above

6. Self Esteem means

(a) Love for yourself

(b) Respect for yourself

(d) All the above

7. The Hawthorne experiment was started by:

(a) Kurt Lewin

(b) B.F.Skinner

(d) W.Dickson

8. --------------is the systematic study of the ways interaction, interdependence and influence among persons affect their behavior and thoughts

(a) Social psychology

(b) Industrial psychology

(d) Sociology

9. Psychoanalytic theory has been propounded by?

(a) Rogers

(b) Alderfer

10. MBO was first suggested by?

(a) F.W. Taylor

(b) Henri Fayol

(d) Watson

11. The three levels of analysis that are studied in organizational behavior are?

(a) Traits, behaviors and results.

(b) Affective, cognitive and behavioral

(d) Individual , group and organizational

12. Which type of leaders gives complete freedom to their employees

(a) Autocratic leaders

(b) Bureaucratic leaders

(d) Laissez-faire leaders

13. ------------refers to the ability of individuals or groups to induce or influence the beliefs

or actions of other individuals or groups?

(a) Power

(b) Responsibility

(d) Discipline

14. Robert Owen, Charles Babbage, Henry R. Lowne , Andrew Ure and Charles Duplin

contributed to the school of management thought?

(a) Classical

(b) Behavioral

(c) Neo-classical

(d) Pre-classical

15. Which of the following is not a leadership theory? (a) Trait

theory

(b) ERG theory

(d) Transactional theory

16. Which is an advantage of decentralization?

(a) Encourages decision-making

(b) Easy to have uniform policy

(d) Decreases complexity of coordination

17. Which type of departmentation is useful only at the lowest level of organizations?

(a) Departmentation by simple numbers

(b) Departmentation by time

(d) Departmentation by strategic numbers

18. Which managerial function gives attention to influencing and motivating employees to improve performance and achieve corporate objectives?

(a) Leading

(b) Organizing

(d) Controlling

19. The refers to the delivery by one individual to another of the right to act, to

make decisions, to requisition resources and to perform other tasks in order to fulfill job responsibilities

(a) Centralization of power

(b) Delegation of authority

(d) Delegation of responsibility

20. In the process of communication, the translation of intended meanings into words and gestures is known as?

(a) Encoding

(b) Decoding

(d) Transforming

21. The establishment of a distinct area, unit of subsystem of an organization over which a

(a) Centralization

(b) Departmentation

(d) Functionallization

22. Which of the following processes shows how an individual seeks information about a certain issue and how he interprets that information?

(a) Dogmatism

(b) Perception

(d) Congnitive dissonance

23. The organization chart is a way of showing?

(a) How the task of an organization are divided and co-ordinated

(b) The informal patterns of communication

(d) The physical layout of the buildings on a site

24. When a manager secures the agreement of a colleague to work on a project in return for the promise of providing the colleague with some extra remuneration,what type of power is he or she exercising?

(a) Expert power

(b) Coercive power

(d) Reward power

25. Which of the following is not one of the steps identified as part of the controlling process?

(a) Setting performance standards or goals

(b) Measuring performance

(d) Tasking corrective action

26. Which of the following refers to changing a task to make it inherently more rewarding , motivating and satisfying?

(a) Enlargement

(b) Rotation

(d) Enrichment

27. When people are resisting because of adjustment problem, the method for dealing with resistance to change is commonly used

(a) Facilitation and support

(b) Explicit and implicit coercion

28. According to Fieldler's contingency model, leadership situations can be analyzed in terms of three elements. What are they?

(a) The quantity of the membership, the organizational structure and position of authority

(b) The quantity of leader-member relationships, task structure and position power

(d) The power of the leadership, the member relationships and the organizational structure

29. Which of the following characteristic distinguishes authority?

(a) It is vested in people not positions

(b) Subordinates accept it.

(d) It emerges from the organizational values

30. Which of these refers to the set of characteristics that underlie a relatively stable pattern of behavior in response to ideas, objects or people in the environment?

(a) Dissonance perception

(b) Personality

(d) Attitude

31. The tendency to place the primary responsibility for one's success or failure either within oneself or on outside forces is referred to as

(a) Authoritarianism

(b) Emotional stability

(c) Locus of control

(d) Extroversion

32. The tendency to see one's own personal traits in other people is called

(a) Perceptual defense

(b) Projection

(d) The halo effect

33. Which of the following theories deals with employee's perception of fairness?

(a) Expectancy

(b) Reinforcement

(d) Equity

34. A financial budget that estimates cash flows on a daily basis or weekly basis to ensure that the company can meet its obligations is called a

(a) Capital expenditure budget

(b) Balance sheet budget

(d) Revenue budget

35. is a process whereby companies find how others do something better than they do and then try to imitate or improve on it.

(a) TQM

(b) Continuous improvement

(d) Empowerment

36. Standing plans are

(a) Plans that are developed to achieve a set of goals that are unlikely to be repeated in the future

(b) Plans that are used to provide guidance for tasks performed repeatedly within the organization

(d) Most important in the organization

37. Which of the following is not a perceptual distortion

(a) Stereotype

(b) Halo effect

(d) Extinction

38. Nonverbal communication behaviors includes

(a) Twitching, Scratching, rolling your eyes

(b) Secret notes passed between fellow works

(d) Sending an email response to an irate customer

39. Democratic leadership is also known as---

a) Autocratic

(b) Participative

(d) Laissezfaire

40. A significant part of a manager's job is an organization is to use the tools and techniques developed through OB research to increase organizational

(a) Structure

(b) Morale

(d) Effectiveness

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