cde.annauniv.edu M.B.A Degree Examination First Semester Model Question Paper : Centre for Distance Education Anna University

Name of the Organization : Centre for Distance Education (CDE) Anna University
Name Of The Exam : M.B.A. Degree Examination
Document Type : Sample Question Paper
Year : 2016 – First Semester
Subject: Management Concepts :

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M.B.A Degree Examination Model Question Paper :

Management Concepts :
Time : Three hours
Maximum : 100 marks

Related / Similar Question Paper : Anna University CDE M.B.A. Second Semester Question Paper

Answer ALL questions :
PART – A – (10 × 2 = 20 marks)
1. Define management ?
2. What do you mean by span of control?
3. List the types of planning. ?
4. What do you mean by break even analysis?
5. Define pay off matrice ?
6. Give two examples of staff functions. .
7. Define staffing
8. Define communication
9. List two objectives of control systems.
10. Define budgetary control

PART – B – (5 x 16 = 80 marks)
11. (a) Discuss the evolution of management concepts.
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(b) Discuss the principles of scientific management.

12. (a) What are the steps in a planning process? Discuss.
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(b) Discuss in detail the approaches to decision making process.

13. (a) Write short notes on :
(i) Departmentation
(ii) Centralisation and Decentralisation.
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b. Discuss the recent trends in organization structures.

14. Discuss the steps involved in a selection process.
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What are different types of leadership styles? Discuss bringing out its advantages and disadvantages.
15. Discuss the need for controlling with relevant examples.
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What are different controlling techniques available? Discuss with its advantages and disadvantages

Organizational Behaviour :
PARTA : (10 × 2 = 20 marks)
1. Define organizational behavior.
2. List any four areas where the organizational behavior has the scope.
3. What do you mean by Emotional intelligence?
4. Define perception.
5. What do you understand by the term ‘Group Dynamics”?
6. What is Team building? –
7. What do you mean by transformational leadership?
8. What is organizational politics?
9. Define organizational culture.
10. What do you mean by work-life balance?
11. Define organizational behaviour.
12. What are the contributing sciences to organizational behaviour?
13. What are the functions of attitude?
14. Define impression management.
15. What is an informal group?
16. Define group dynamics.
17. What is legitimate power?
18. What is charismatic leadership?
19. Name the determinants of organizational culture.
20. What are the consequences of stress

PART B : (5 x 16 = 80 marks)
1. (a) Explain the importance of organizational behavior study in a business organization.
(b) Discuss the custodial model of organizational behavior in detail.
2. a. Give a detailed account on psycho analytic theory of personality.
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b. Explain how the attitudes are formed and measured with examples.

3. a. Discuss the stages of group formation with an illustration.
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b. Discuss the merits and limitations of Delphi technique and brainstorming technique in group decision making.

4. a. Explain how leaders are different from managers with examples.
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b. Discuss the advantages and limitations of autocratic and democratic styles of leadership.

5. a. What are the factors affecting organizational climate? Explain in detail.
b. Analyze why people resist to change and the strategies to manage change in an organization.

6. (a) Bring out the need and importance of organizational behaviour.
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(b) How does the study of organizational behaviour make you into a better manager? Explain.
7. a. Explain the theory of classical conditioning and its practical implications.
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b. What is perception and what are the factors that affect perception? Discuss in detail.

8. a. What are the different forms of groups that exist in an organization? Explain each one briefly.
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b. Explain the role of informal groups that exist in an organization.

9.a. What are the various leadership styles? Which style would suit best for the current business scenario? Discuss.
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b. What are the contingencies of power and how does it moderate the effectiveness of power? Discuss in detail.

10. a. What are the reasons for resistance to organizational change? How can you overcome them?
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b. What are the various sources of work stress? How do we deal with stress in workplace?