Previous year question paper :PPM
Section A: (2 Marks)
1.What is difference between productivity, efficiency, effectiveness ?
2.Define Management
3.What are key result areas?
4.List different type of plans.
5.What is centralization and decentralization
6.Define formal and informal organization.
7.What are single use plans?
8.Define authority,responsibility and accountability
9.What is Hawthorne effect?
10.What is an Organisation?
Section B: (5 Marks)
1.What determines the span of management and hence the levels of organization?
2.Draw up a statement of policy and devise a brief procedure that might be useful in implementing it.Are you sure your policy is not a rule?
3.Identify major premises that,in your judgement , Maruti Suzuki would need in order to forecast its sales of automobiles for the next two years.
4.If you were the CEO of a large corporation, how would you ‘institutionalize’ethics in the organization?
5.What management skills does a manager need? Explain how the importance of these skills changes depending on the management level?
6.How do Fayol’s principles of management compare with Taylor’s?
7.Contrast traditional objective setting and MBO.
8.Why is organizing an important managerial function?
9.Is managing a science or an art? Could the same explanation apply to engineering and accounting?
10.What are different kinds of managerial roles according to Mintzberg?
11.A formal organization is often conceived of as a communication system?Is is? How?
12.Why do most small companies use functionally organize departments?
Section C: (10 Marks)
1.‘The business of business is business’. Critique this statement.
2.Compare and contrast Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs theory with Herztberg’s two factor theory.
3.What are the different bases of departmentation? Explain with suitable examples.
4.How does planning affect an organization in terms of performance ?In terms of eliminating change? Are these effects altered if the planning proves to be inaccurate?
5.What are some typical management practices in Japan and how do they compare to those in United states and India?
6.Case study.
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