Question # 00018070
Posted By: mac123
Updated on: 06/23/2014 06:09 AM Due on: 06/30/2014
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Question 1.1.(TCO
2) How is environment scanning helpful to a manager and the organization? (Points : 10)
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Question 2.2.(TCO
3) You are the CEO of a factory that manufactures furniture. Explain briefly
why your company needs to be socially responsible. Briefly comment on any two
areas of social responsibility. (Points
: 10)
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Question 3.3.(TCO
7) Briefly describe the matrix structure of organization design. What
are the advantages and disadvantages of this design? (Points : 10)
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Question 4.4.(TCO
8) Briefly explain one performance appraisal method. Explain an error that
can occur in the performance appraisal process and one way to effectively
deal with such an error. (Points : 10)
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Question 5.5.(TCO
9) Briefly explain two ways in which communication effectiveness can be
improved. (Points : 10)
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Question 6.6.(TCO
10) What are the different levels of control? What are the relationships
between the different levels? (Points
: 10)
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Question 7.7.(TCO
1) Briefly describe any five of the 10 managerial roles described by Henry
Mintzberg. Give an example of each. (Points
: 10)
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Question 1.1.(TCO
2) Organizations have both an internal and an external environment. Describe
the general environment and give at least one specific example of each
dimension, other than the examples given in the text and in the lectures. (Points : 20)
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Question 2.2.(TCO
8) You are a manager of a Consulting firm with 25 employees under your
supervision. Employee Motivation appears to be slipping, as well as employee
performance. Employees seem to have a negative attitude about their work,
which has led to some turnover of employees and an increase in absenteeism.
You have been asked to provide upper management with recommendations of how
to improve motivation of the employees. Please create a motivation plan and
list the main motivational theories you are applying in this plan. You should
come up with a minimum of three ideas on how to improve motivation. (Points : 20)
3.(TCO
9) You are the plant manager at Acme Plastics. You are running two shifts,
a day shift and an evening shift. Before the day shift leaves each day, the
workers must get an adequate supply of raw materials from the warehouse for
the evening shift to use. On several occasions, they have failed to do so.
By the time the evening shift gets to work, the warehouse is locked up, and
it takes about 3 hours to get someone out to unlock it and get the
production line rolling again. The two shift supervisors are at each
other's throats, and you have to do something to correct the situation.
What is the basic problem causing this conflict? What could you do to solve
it? (Points : 20)
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Question 4.4.(TCO
10) Our text defines the four functions of a management as planning,
organizing, leading and controlling. Briefly put, the plan states the
desired outcome or goal and the process for achieving it. Control is the
regulation of organizational activities and processes in such a way as to
facilitate goal attainment. Assume that you are a manager of a business.
State the type of business you are managing (it can be any business you
choose). Give two examples of controls that you would implement in the
business and how they could facilitate goal attainment. (Points : 20
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Solution: Devry MGMT303 final exam Spring 2014