I'm going to upload quiz file for my Master of Business Administration:
The Excle file - Quiz 2 to 4 (totally 100 mc quections)
The COURSE SCHOLARLY PAPER with the syllabus and requirements provided.
Organization and Management Theory - Course
Syllabus
COURSE OVERVIEW
This course allows you to look at the broader management issues. It is the most general of the modules offered within MBA programme and provides a theoretically grounded coverage of key conceptual and practical developments across wider range of management disciplines including human resources management, operations management, leadership, etc.
This Course addresses the unique managerial experience. The goal is to provide a solid background with practical application of important concepts applicable to general management. Students will need to draw upon their business education and experience, and apply it to the management philosophies that are being taught through this module. Students are expected to interact with the business community, advisors, be able to work effectively in teams, and be active participants in classroom discussions and exercises.
COURSE OBJECTIVES
- To possess a well-grounded understanding of essential management principles.
- To develop an understanding of important managerial issues for different
- business ventures.
- To identify, appreciate, and assess the knowledge, attitudes, and skills of a
- manager.
- To study and observe managerial settings and managerial role models through
- exposure to actual business settings and experiences.
- To establish a level of confidence and sound knowledge in terms of operations
- management
REQUIRED TEXTBOOK
Management, 11th Edition, Robbins & Coulter, 2012. Pearson Prentice Hall Publishing Co., Upper Saddle River, NJ. ISBN-10: 0132163845.
ISBN- 13:9780132163842
COURSE SCHOLARLY PAPER
For this course you should choose any company but preferably the company currently you are working for and by making use of the concepts provided in this course evaluate any of its operational facets and provide improvement suggestions. Case studies from the end of the chapters may be used if you are unable to find a suitable real company.
When writing your research paper, please note the following guidelines:
- Select a topic that interests you and is related to the contents of this course. Write no less than 2000 words scholarly paper (excluding the title page, bibliography and appendices) on this topic. Please e-mail your professor an outline of this paper, prior to starting it. In addition to your primary text, you are required to use a minimum of 10 additional references from professional journals and books to produce your scholarly paper.
- Your research paper must adhere to the style and format requirements set forth in the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association. Your paper must include a title page, headings and a bibliography. Footnotes are not needed. The bibliography is to be used to reference quotes and other
Quiz 1:
Question 01
is the process of getting activities completed efficiently and effectively with and through other people.
Answers:
a. Leading
b. Management
c. Supervision
d. Controlling
Question 2
The distinction between a managerial position and a nonmanagerial position is .
Answers:
a. planning the work of others
b. coordinating the work of others
c. controlling the work of others
d. organizing the work of others
Question 3
Today. the basic management functions are considered to be
Answers:
a. planning. coordinating. staffing. and directing
b. planning. organizing, leading, and directing
c. commanding, organizing. leading. and staffing
d. planning. organizing, leading, and controlling
Question 4
A manager resolving conflict among organizational members is performing what function?
Answers:
a. controlling
b. commanding
c. directing
d. leading
Question 5
The process of monitoring. comparing. and correcting is called
Answers:
a. controlling
b. coordinating
c. leading
d. organizing
Question 6
According to Mintzberg's management roles. the roles are those that involve people and other duties that are ceremonial and symbolic in nature.
Answers:
a. informational
b. interpersonal
c. technical
d. decisional
Question 7
In the Wealth of Nations. Adam Smith described the breakdown of jobs into narrow and repetitive tasks and called this .
Answers:
a. assembly lines
b. work denomination
c. division of labor
d. greatest common factor of work
Question 8
Which of the following was a major result of the Industrial Revolution?
Answers:
a. cottage industry
b. water power
c. factory manufacturing
d. critical thinking
Question 9
Which of the following phrases is most associated with scientific management?
Answers:
a. management relations
b. one best way
c. supply and demand
d. quality control
Question 10
Fayol was interested in studying . whereas Taylor was interested in studying
Answers:
a. senior managers: effective managers
b. all managers: first-line managers
c. bureaucratic structures: chains of command
d. administrative theory macroeconomics
Question 11
Bureaucracy is defined as a form of organization characterized by
Answers:
a. division of labor
b. clearly defined hierarchy
c. detailed rules and regulations
d. all of the above
Question 12
General administrative theorists devoted their efforts to
Answers:
a. developing mathematical models to improve management
b. improving the productivity and efficiency of workers
c. making the overall organization more effective
d. emphasizing the study of human behavior in organizations
Question 13
The omnipotent view of management states that
Answers:
a. the top manager is the only person in charge
b. managers are directly responsible for an organization's success or failure
c. that there is only one boss in the organization. and she or he is responsible for delegating orders
d. managers have little or no responsibility for an organization's success or failure
Question 14
Which of the following most accurately reflects the symbolic view of management?
Answers:
a. Managers are directly responsible for an organization's success or failure.
b. Managers have little or no responsibility for an organizations success or failure.
c. External forces are directly responsible for an organization's success or failure.
d. Employees are directly responsible for an organization's success or failure.
Question 15
The culture of an organization is analogous to the of an individual.
Answers:
a. skills
b. personality
c. motivation
d. ability
Question 16
Employees in organizations with strong cultures
Answers:
a. are more committed to their organizations
b. are more likely to leave their organizations
c. are more willing to perform illegal activities
d. are more likely to follow directives from peers
Question 17
External environment refers to
Answers:
a. forces outside the organization that limit the organization's performance
b. factors and forces outside the organization that affect the organization's performance
c. forces and institutions inside the organization that affect the organization's performance
d. forces inside the organization that increase the organization's performance
Question 18
The main forces that make up an organization's specific environment are
Answers:
a. suppliers. legislators. customers. and employees
b. customers. suppliers. competitors. and pressure groups
c. employees. competitors. pressure groups. and regulators
d. suppliers. employees. competitors. and legislators
Question 19
The Internet is having an impact on determining whom an organization's competitors are because it has .
Answers:
a. defined the common markets for organizations
b. made certain products invaluable to customers
c. virtually eliminated the need for shopping malls
d. virtually eliminated geographic boundaries
Question 20
The classical view of social responsibility holds that managements only social responsibility is to .
Answers:
a. maximize organizational profits for stockholders
b. maximize adherence to the laws for stockholders
c. maximize organizational profits for stakeholders
d. minimize adherence to the laws for stockholders
Question 21
The socioeconomic view is that management's social responsibility goes beyond making profits to include .
Answers:
a. placing members of society on welfare
b. protecting and improving societys welfare
c. minimizing the welfare of society in exchange for profits
d. protecting and improving the organization's profits
Question 22
is defined as a business firm's obligation. beyond that required by law and economics. to pursue long-term goals that are good for society.
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a. Social obligation
b. Social responsibility
c. Social screening
d. Values-based management
Question 23
The recognition of the close link between an organization's decisions and activities and its impact on the natural environment is referred to as
Answers:
a. corporate social responsibility
b. social responsiveness
c. shared corporate values
d. the greening of management
Question 24
is an approach to managing in which managers establish. promote. and practice what an organization stands for and believes in.
Answers:
a. Cause-related marketing
b. Values-based management
c. Ethical marketing
d. Belief management
Question 25
is a personality attribute that measures the degree to which people believe they control their own fate.
Answers:
a. Ego strength
b. Locus of control
c. Social responsibility
d. Social obligation
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