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Management Practices and Organisational Behaviour

Notes 4.12 Review Questions

1. "Good committee management is through adherence to the basic precepts of the human
relations approach to organisation". Do you agree with this? Give suggestions to make
committees more effective.
2. "Organisation is the backbone of management". Comment.
3. Compare line, functional and line-staff organisations through examples. Which of these
will be appropriate for a large manufacturing enterprise?
4. " A committee is made up of the unfit selected by the unwilling to do the unnecessary".
Comment.
5. Why is Organisational structure important? What sort of organisational structure best
suited to custom made product produced in a stable environment a mass product produced
in unstable environment?
6. How might the organisational design of a research and development firm in the
pharmaceutical industry differ from the organisational design of a consumer food products
manufacturer?
7. Discuss the universal perspectives of Organisational Design. Identify the restructuring
strategy being adopted by an organisation you are familiar with and make a brief analysis
of the contingent factors that have influenced the strategy of the said organisation. Briefly
describe the organisation you are referring to.
8. What are some of the problems that you have observed from a bad organisational structure?

9. Is there a simple definition for "organisational structure"? Does it include more than an
org chart?
10. How would you determine if organisational structure is impeding your company? What
would you do rectify the situation?
11. Define line organisation by the help of examples. Does the government of India make a
line organisation?

12. When it is your responsibility to organise and plan a project what steps do you take?

Answers: Self Assessment

1. results 2. different
3. cost, time 4. executive
5. line and staff 6. deliberations, judgement

7. allocation of tasks, delegation of authority
8. strategy 9. Staff
10. temporary

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