MS 1 IGNOU MBA Assignments July – Dec 2018

1. Enumerating various roles/tasks of a manager in an organization, briefly describe and discuss any two roles/tasks which according to your experience are most important and
crucial for the organisation. Substantiate your answer with suitable examples drawing
from your own experience or the ones you are aware of. Briefly describe the organization/s and the situation/s you are referring to.

Ans : Entrusted with a leadership role, a manager is responsible…..organisation or company. Managers are…..sector, and the business model relies……operationalise the management structure….three areas where a manger has to work

1. ……people look up to the manager as a…….and as a figurehead…
2. This is where you provide….. perhaps your entire organisation, and it’s where you….of everyone in the group.
3. …..Managers need to be able to….behalf of your organization.

The managerial role in this category….information.

In this role, manager regularly seek out…. related to…organisation and industry, looking for……… productivity and their well being……to your colleagues and your team….Managers represent and speak….and its goals to the people outside it…..

In reality, you can’t find even one one….changes. A successful…..if you want to bring desired results….prepare to implement change that will bring future success….

Ensuring survival of the firm is a…..also seek growth….. internal to the….the second set of factors are external to the firm…..increasing competition etc….

2. Define and describe tenets and features of ‘decision making under certainty’, ‘decision making under-risk’, and ‘decision making under uncertainty’ with suitable organizational examples drawing from your own organizational experience or the ones you are aware of. Briefly describe the organisation you are referring to.

Ans : Decision making is the process of making choices….and assessing alternative resolutions..

Effective decision making is defined here as the process through which….key roles to play throughout the effective decision making process……

…..rarely operate under conditions of certainty. The future is only barely known….decisions that are made under such conditions. One frequent…..least near certainty is the purchase of….is an unlikely probability, but the possibility still exists…

Programming is one of the techniques….with the help of a computer…..

Most significant decisions made in today’s complex … under a state of uncertainty. Conditions of uncertainty exist…. maker is not aware of all available alternatives…The manger does not possess complete information about the….. and experience for making decisions….

India offers many interesting example…in India but each, despite being the……garments and household goods required by the growing Indian…..point whether a shared focus on the middle class is balanced by the above…..and outcomes even under common generic umbrella…

3. What are the characteristics, dimensions, and determinants of Organisational Culture and Climate? How do they affect the life, values, and ethos in any organizational set up. Explain with examples from your own experience or the ones you are aware of. Briefly describe the situation , and the organization you are referring to.

4. What factors adversely affect the communication in an orgnisational set up? How to overcome such adverse effect for enhancing effectiveness and efficiency of the organization. Explain with examples from your own experience or the ones you are aware of.

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