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Unit 5: Coordination, Centralisation and Decentralisation

10. Is decentralization of decision making powers in a company a result of individual Notes
incompetence? Support your argument with reasons.
11. If you are to handle an organsiation in which everything was being run at a centralized
level, what will you like to manage it as- in a centralized or decentralized manner?
12. “The greater the number of decision at lower level, the greater is decentralisation.”
Comment.
13. Examine the utility of vertical decentralistion for a manufacturing firm.
14. Suggest a mix of centralisation and decentralisation for a firm that you supposedly
inherited from your father and want to grow further.
15. Every employee has a discretion of his own. If all are allowed to make decisions, who will
decide who's discretion is better than all the others?

16. “Decentralistion will always experience a certain amount of epidemic conflict between
those whose purpose is to coordinate and those who resist coordination.” Why so?
17. “In tough times, should an organisation opt for centralisation or decentralisation.” Support
our answer with valid reasons.

Answers: Self Assessment

1. harmony 2. personal
3. direct 4. Personal
5. Authority 6. beginning

7. different 8. motivation
9. vertical 10. lower
11. location, dispersal 12. dispersal, delegation

5.9 Further Readings

Books C.I. Barnard, The Functions of an Executive, HUP, Cambridge, 1938.

D. Hellriegel et al., Management, South Western, Cincinnati, 1999.
G.R. Terry, Principles of Management, R. D. Irwin, NY, 1960.
Gary Dessler, Management, Reston, Virginia, 1982.
J. B. Thompson, Organisations in Action, McGraw Hill, NY, 1967.

Lee Iacocca with William Novak, Lacocca, An Autobiography, Phantom Books,
New York, 1984.

Online links www.hp.com
www.hll.com

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