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Principles Of Management(Buss 100) Question Paper

Principles Of Management(Buss 100)

Course:Business Administration

Institution: Kenya Methodist University question papers

Exam Year:2013

TIME: 2 HOURS

INSTRUCTIONS: Answer Question One and any Other TWO Questions
Question One
a) Identify and explain the main features in a good definition of
management. (4marks)
b) Organizations are deliberate creatures of human beings. Explain the
rationale for deliberately forming these entities. (4marks)
c) Briefly describe the stages followed by managers in decision making process. (6marks)
d) Give FOUR reasons why management as a discipline has become very important today. (4marks)
e) Identify and explain at least FOUR characteristics of the system theory to organizations. (4marks)
f) Outline the main contributions of classical era in management history.
(4marks)
g) Briefly describe FOUR leadership behaviors according to Robert-House Path-goal theory. (8marks)

Question Two
a) The pre-classical era is the longest epoch in management history yet so little is documented about the existences of management as a discipline. Identify and explain the main pillars that show management existed during this period. (12marks)
b) Explain why there was a delay in history in recognizing management as a distinct discipline. (8marks)

Question Three
Henry Mintzberg give us the roles managers play in organization as they go about performing various functions of management. Identify and explain these roles using appropriate examples. (20marks)

Question Four
a) Give THREE critical areas of concern in organization and staffing as a
function of management. (4marks)
b) Distinguish between the following organizational structures. Give
examples.
i) Functional structure (4marks)
ii) Divisional structure (4marks)
iii) Strategic Business Unit Structure. (4marks)
iv) Matrix structure. (4marks)

Question Five
a) Explain why the study of organization`s environment is very critical to manager`s today? (10marks)
b) Give reasons why you think controlling a function of management is of utmost importance to manager`s today. (10marks)

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