KMBN101 Management Concepts and Organizational Behaviour
Question Bank
UNIT-1
Short Questions:
1. What do you mean by the term “Managers”?
2. “Management is the Art of getting things done through others”. Discuss.
3. Write the different types of skills required by Managers.
4. What is the importance of Planning in an organization?
5. What do you mean by the term “Management”?
6. Define Scientific Management.
7. What are the functions of Manager? Explain managerial skills.
Long Questions:
1. Assess the role of Henry Fayol in the development of Management thought.
2. Discuss the concepts of Management and highlight its chief characteristics.
3. “MBO is both a technique as well as a philosophy of Management”. Discuss.
4. Explain any two techniques of making unprogrammed decisions in business.
5. “Planning in looking forward & control is looking back” Comment.
6. Compare and Contrast F.W. Taylor's and Henri Fayol's Approaches towards Management.
7. Enumerate the steps in the planning process with appropriate examples.
8. “Management is a trinity of Art, Science and Profession”. In the light of this statement explain
the Nature of Management.
9. Behavioural School has its root in Hawthorne Experiments. Comment and explain some
managerial implications of the Hawthorne experiments.
UNIT-2
Short Questions:
1. Define the term “Staffing”.
2. What do you understand the term “Directing”?
3. What do you mean by decentralization?
4. What do you mean by off the job training?
5. What are the techniques of Directing?
6. Compare Line and staff relationships in your Organisation.
7. “Coordination is the essence of Management”. Justify.
8. What do you understand by the term “Organizing” and state its importance and objective?
9. Analyze the term DIRECTING with its principles in detail.
Long Questions:
1. Explain the Training Methods in detail.
2. Explain the concept of span of control. Discuss the factors influencing span of control.
3. What are the causes of line & staff conflict? How would you resolve conflict?
4. Explain the importance of effective direction in the process of Management.
5. "Organization structure is a multipurpose tool." Discuss the statement with reference to the
importance of sound organization structure.
6. Discuss the role of “Management by exception” in achieving organization leadership.
7. Discuss the line and staff organization. Briefly state its merits and demerits.
8. Control is the fundamental function that ensures work accomplishment according to plan.
Analyze this statement and outline the various steps involved in the control process.
9. “Directing function of management involves dealing with the human factor”. Interpret the
statement.
10. Outline all the modern techniques of Control in detail.
11. Explain the process of Selection. Also, differentiate between Recruitment and Selection.
UNIT-3
Short Questions:
1. What do you mean by the term "Covert Behaviour"?
2. What do you mean by ABC Model of Attitude?
3. What do you mean by Personal Effectiveness?
4. What do you mean by Overt Behaviour?
5. What do you mean by the ABC Model of Attitude?
Long Questions:
1. Apply the transactional analysis with all three Ego states with respect to complementary
transactions and Ulterior Transactions in the organization.
2. Apply the concept of Group cohesiveness within a team for the successful implementation of
group goals. Also, how to direct activities to a highly cohesive group?
3. .Explain the Transaction Analysis and all the ego states in detail.
4. Explain all the theories of Personality in the context of Organization.
5. Explain the term Perception. Outline the perceptual process in detail.
UNIT-4
Short Questions:
1. How do Non-Financial Rewards help to motivate employees?
2. What do you mean by Personal Effectiveness?
3. Define Motivation?
4. What is the difference between Motivation and Inspiration?
5. What is inner drive?
Long Questions:
1. Analyze the Mc Clelland theory (Achievement Motivation Theory) in detail.
2. Analyze the whole process of Motivation with examples in detail.
3. What do you mean by the term Motivation? Explain Maslow's theory of motivation.
4. Differentiate between the Traditional theory of Motivation and the Contemporary theory of
Motivation.
UNIT-5
Short Questions:
1. What are the traits of good Leaders?
2. What do you mean by Organizational Change?
3. Explain few leadership traits.
4. What do you mean by Team building?
5. What is Organizational Change?
Long Questions:
1. Evaluate the term Leadership with the theories namely charismatic theory and Leadership
Situation model.
2. Evaluate the term ‘change’ in the light of recent bank mergers with reference to the Kurt Lewin
Model.
3. What do you mean by Team Building? Elaborate on the Tuckman Model of Team
Development.
4. Analyse the Kurt Lewin model in detail. Differentiate between Proactive and Reactive
change?
5. Explain briefly the traits and qualities of effective leader.
