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School for Continuing Education (NGA-SCE)

Course: Management Theory and Practice

Internal Assignment Applicable for September 2022 Examination

Assignment Marks: 30

Instructions:

 All Questions carry equal marks.

 All Questions are compulsory

 All answers to be explained in not more than 1000 words for question 1 and 2 and for

question 3 in not more than 500 words for each subsection. Use relevant examples,

illustrations as far as possible.

 All answers to be written individually. Discussion and group work is not advisable.

 Students are free to refer to any books/reference material/website/internet for attempting

their assignments, but are not allowed to copy the matter as it is from the source of

reference.

 Students should write the assignment in their own words. Copying of assignments from

other students is not allowed.

 Students should follow the following parameter for answering the assignment questions.

1. Here are two situations for you, please read them carefully and enumerate the type of

managerial decision making is considered in each of the situations and elaborate on the

importance of managerial decision-making.

Situation 1. Rosette diamonds is a large company with 5 big units of production. Shamim

is the manager of in one of the production units and is responsible for creating weekly

work schedule for employees in various production units. The unit is a mixture of full

time, part time and contract employees. What type of decision making is this? Elaborate.

Situation 2. During the pandemic situation, Rosette diamonds needed to close down two

of their units temporarily. Now, there is a dilemma in front of the directors. While they

know that the company will bounce back and hence, they do not want to let go their

employees, but currently they do not have enough projects for all of them. What type of

decision making will they need to indulge in? Elaborate. (10 Marks)

2. Jimmy and Charmi are Marketing managers with Bhavi Automobiles. They joined the

company approximately at the same time. Jimmy is looking after luxury cars section and

Charmi is looking after SUV section. Jimmy ends up getting a higher incentive than

Charmi due to the kind of product and sales he has to engage in. Charmi feels let down

sometimes due to this difference. However, on one occasion when Jimmy and Charmi

meet at lunch hours, Jimmy shares with Charmi that he is not happy with the job and has

resigned and will be joining the competition company since they offer better incentives

for the luxury car section. How will you connect the equity theory of motivation in this

case? Please elaborate your answer. (10 Marks)

3. Japan Lights was a unit of Brizz Electricals. Japan Lights employs 120 workers for their

assembly lines. The workers had been doing their job with manual assembling machines

which was to be replaced by Automatic assembly lines. Please answer the following

questions.

a. The decision of replacement was not taken positively by all the workers. Almost 80%

workers approached the management with a threat of a strike against bringing in the

automation. Discuss two types of resistance to change usually observed in such situations.

(5 Marks).

b. What techniques of handling resistance could be employed for this problem? Suggest any

three. (5 Marks)