Long Questions to Review

1. Define leadership? Explain trait approach to leadership? States its limitation(3+5+3)
2. Define leadership. Explain Fiedler Contingency model.(3+7)
3. Define Behavioral approach to leadership. Explain the managerial Grid. (3+7)
4. Define leadership? Explain leadership Function.(3+7)
5. Define Staffing and its importance? Explain Human Resource Management System. (2+3+5)
6. Define organizing. Explain the emerging concepts in organizing. (3+7)
7. Define organizing. Explain Matrix structure.(3+7)
8. Define job design. Explain different approaches to job design.(3+7)
9. What is decision making? Explain the process of decision making. (3+7)
10. What is decision making? Explain various styles in decision making? Which is most effective style, why?(2+6+2)
11. What is group decision making? State its disadvantage and explain any two methods of making decision in group.(2+2+6)
12. Planning is the first activity of an organization; comment. Discuss process of planning for business. (5+5)
13. How strategic planning differs from operational planning? Explain the process of formulation of strategic plan. (5+5)
14. Why is goal important for an organization? Describe goal formulation process. (5+5)
15. Define business environment? Assess the emerging business environment of Nepal.(3+7)
16. Differentiate between internal and external environment of business. What are the components of task environment?(5+5)
17. What do you understand by business environment? Explain different component of external environment. (3+7)
18. What is social responsibility? Specify different approaches to social responsibility, which one do you prefer why? (3+7)
19. What is managerial ethics and its significance? What are areas of concern for managers under managerial ethics?(2+3+5)
20. State and explain the “system approach” and “contingency approach” of management as the integrating approach of managing an organization. (10)
21. Differentiate between scientific management and administrative management schools of thought. Which school of thought do you think is more applicable in organization, why?(7+3)
22. Define management. What are the major issues and challenges that managers confront today?(3+7)
23. Explain different skills required by manger? Do managers equally need these skills at different levels?(6+4)
24. Define management. The true reality of management: "Most managers engage in more than one function at a time and often move back and forth between the function in unpredictable ways". Agree or Disagree, and why? (2+8)
25. Highlight the Henry Fayol’s fourteen universal principles of management. (10)
26. Describe the roles of a manager as identifies by Henry Mintzberg.(10)
27. Define group? Explain the stages of group formation? (2+8)
28. Define team and its importance? Describe characteristics of effective teams. (2+3+5)
29. "Conflict is not only a positive force in a group but it is absolutely necessary for a group to perform effectively" Do you agree or disagree with this statement.(10)
30. What is conflict? If there is no conflict in organization, explain how manager can stimulate conflict?(3+7)
31. "Conflict is negative or positive to organization", analyze. Explain approaches to conflict resolution.(5+5)
32. Define motivation. Critically analyze the Maslow need hierarchy theory? (3+7)
33. What is motivation? Discuss motivational techniques that mangers can adopt to motivate employees. (3+7)
34. What is formal communication? Explain barriers to communication and strategies to over come the barriers.(2+5+3)
35. Define communication? What are the different forms of organizational communication?(3+7)
36. "Poor communication is important source of interpersonal conflict". Do you agree or disagree with the statement. (10)
37. Define control. Briefly describe the control process and explain which step is likely to be most challenging to perform and why? (2+5+3)
38. Describe Deming's principles of total quality management. State 14 techniques suggested by Deming. (5+5)
39. What is quality management? Clarify the techniques of total quality management. (3+7)
40. What is organizational Change? Explain resistance to change and techniques to over come this resistance to change. (2+5+3)
41. Define organizational Development? Explain its process? (3+7)