Question 1:

(i) Why and how may self-managed teams and groups be effective? What makes them attractive and unattractive to management and to the individual employee?

(ii) How do cultures differ in their values regarding the use of authority and power amongst the US and Japanese organizations? What could be the implications of these differences?

Question 2:

Critically evaluate the view that with tremendous pressures on cost-cutting, outsourcing, delayering and downsizing, learning organisations are no longer crucial for organisational survival.

Question 3:

(i) " With rapid technological changes in every industry, Training Needs Analyses (TNAs) as an effective tool for people development are no longer justifiable". Critically evaluate the validity of this statement.

(ii) On-the-job training for production workers, although widely used, has a number of deficiencies. What alternative procedures may be used to overcome them?