Questions

syllabus : admin theory and admin behaviour..
1) a. Scientific mgmt is a primitive tool of industrial polyarchies.Comment
b. According to weber,in a social system the manner in which power is legitimized determines the nature of the administrative system.Elucidate
c. As a tool of conflict resolution,Follets "integration" presents several practical difficulties .Explain.
d. legitimate authority flows from coordination,not coodination from authority"(follet).Comment.
2)a. Major implication of following theories X and Y assumption can be seen in management process.Managerial beliefs tend to alter the nature of planning,Leading as well as Controlling in organizations.
b. highlight the practical assumptions of management process school and comment on their validity.
3) a. The ideal type of bureaucracy is held by its proponent to be most efficient.Do you agree?
b. what are the key characteristics of the post modern (post bureaucratic) organization? also highloght the factors that have induced changes in traditional bureaucratic paradigm of organizational mgmt.
4) a. Highlight the major conclusions of Hawthrone stidies.to what extent would it be appropriate to refer to human relations school as neo classical.
b. Authority is a character of communicatiob in a formal organizatio(Barnard).comment

Section b

5 a. Linking pin model.short note.
b. the assumptions of closed model and open models of organizations are based on extreme positions.Discuss
c.Fiedlers contigency theory.Short note
d. webers insistence on impersonality conflicts with efforts in contemporary org to generate espirit de corps team culture.explain

6. a one of the imp features of vroom valence theoary is that it recgnized individual differences in work motivation and suggests that motivation is a complex process to maslows and herzbergs simplistic models.elucidate

b. Herzbergs 2 factor theory is often regarded a an extension of maslows need hierarchy .in light of this statement, bring out the similarities and dissimilarities between their contribution.
7 in the context of communication in org ,answer the following

a.imp of communication in motivation.

b. Problems of upward commn in org and techniques to address the same.

c. contemporary issues in org communication.

8 a.Game theory and decision making.short note
b.techniques nas practices of incremental decision making are criticized as an "ideological reinforcement of pro-inertia and anti-motivation forces prevalent in all human organizations". Comment..