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PoM Question Bank

1. Compare and contrast national culture and organizational culture?
2. Discuss the various environments within which organizations operate?
3. Describe Frederick W. Taylors contributions to scientific management?
4. Explain the importance of organizing?
5. Explain Maslows hierarchy of needs?
6. What are the difference between formal and informal organizations?
7. What is decision making? Explain the steps in decision making.
8. Define organization and types of organization?
9. What is life and staff organization? Explain its merits and demerits.
10. Define steps in the control process. Explain the essentials of a good control
process.
11. Explain the managerial roles.
12. What is MBO? Explain its features, process and types.
13. Explain the qualities and styles of a leader.
14. Explain any 5 characteristics of management
15. Communication is the essence of management. Discuss.
16. Differentiate between administration and management.
17. Explain the process, steps and importance of planning.
18. Write a note on X and Y theories.
19. Explain the principles of management as per Henry Fayol?
20. What is line and staff organization? Explain its merits and demerits.
21. Discuss Management by Objectives as a technique designed to achieve the
integration of individual and organizational goals.
22. Discuss the composition of the management environment.
23. Managers have to manage the resources of the organisation to achieve
organisational goals. Discuss the statement.
24. Discuss the elements of corporate culture.
25. Differentiate between strategic, tactical and operational planning.
26. Discuss Management by Objectives as a technique designed to achieve the
integration of individual and organisational goals.
27. Compare the different types of managerial decisions and decision-making
conditions.
28. Distinguish between the various types of departmentalization.
29. Differentiate between the various contemporary approaches to leadership.
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30. Teams and groups are found in all companies. Discuss the stages in group
development.
31. Your company does not have any performance management system in place.
Your manager has asked you to come up with a performance management
system. Discuss Management by Objectives as a technique designed to achieve
the integration of individual and organisational goals.
32. Leadership comprises a number of components, Power is one of them. Discuss
the various kinds of power a leader could apply.
33. Identify the primary and secondary dimensions of diversity. Use a table to
present your answer.
34. You have learnt that when managers are faced with a problem, they proceed
through a number of stages in the decision-making process. These stages assist
them in carefully thinking through the problem and thus developing possible
solutions.
35. Identify and detail a problem that you may have encountered and then, using the
problem as an example, describe the stages of normal progression the manager
would go through that would lead him or her to an optimal solution.
36. Distinguish between the various types of departmentalisation and draw a
diagram showing the various organisational structures and explain these.
37. Managers have to manage the resources of the organisation to achieve
organisational goals. Discuss this statement.
38. Discuss the elements of corporate culture.
39. List the steps in Management by Objectives as a technique designed to achieve
the integration of individual and organisational goals.
40. Differentiate between the different levels of management. Give an example of
each.
41. During the course of their daily work, managers perform several roles. Explain
what these roles entail.
42. Differentiate between strategic, tactical and operational planning. (10)
43. Discuss the steps in the planning process
44.

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1. Goals need to meet certain specifications in order to fulfil their managerial
purpose. Discuss these specifications. Differentiate between strategic, tactical
and operational planning.
1. Management is an art, science or both explain with illustration.(
2. How would you define social responsibility of business.
3. What is Management? Discuss its main characteristics.
4. What are some elements of MBO process?
5. Which are the three essentials of management?
6. How F.W. Taylor and Henri Fayol differ in their approach to management
thought.
7. Differentiate between Management and Administration
8. What is Planning?
9. Differentiate between standing plans and single-use plans
10. How would you define a problem?
11. Define organising. State its principles.
12. What is delegation of authority?( Write about centralisation and decentralisation in
detail.
14. What are the advantages of Laissez-faire or free-reign leadership?
15. Define Trait theory
16. Define Managerial Grid
17. Write a short note on positive and negative incentives.
18. What is upward communication?
19. What are the essentials of effective communication?
20. Differentiate between extrinsic motivation and intrinsic motivation.
21. What are the characteristics of an effective control system?
22. Define quality control.
23. What does PERT stands for?
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24. Define Management. List its functions and importance in present scenario.
Write a detailed note on Corporate Social Responsibility.
Management is an art of getting things done through others. Explain the statement with
the
help of suitable examples.
Decision making is the primary test of management." Discuss this statement and
explain the
process of decision making.
5. Which are the social issues where the businesses and the management are expected
to get
involved?
6. What is Management process?
7. Compare the classical approach on management with the modern approaches of
scientific
management
8. Why is planning so important for the success of any organisation?
9. What are various principles of effective planning?
10. Why decision making and problem solving are termed as core functions of
management. List
various steps involved in decision making process.
11. Compare the three leadership styles. Under what situations would each style be
effective?
Give examples. Explain and compare the various contingency theory of leadership
List out any four barriers to communication and elaborate on how they can be
overcome.
Just as planning, controlling should also be a dominantly forward-looking function.
Comment.
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What are the two main types of control? How is each type used?
Describe motivation. Describe in detail Maslows Need Hierarchy Theory.
Define communication. Explain the process of communication. Explain the various
types of communication with its relative merits and demerits.
What is meant by delegation of authority? What are the elements of the process of
delegation?
Explain the benefits of delegation.
Describe the different methods of comparing the actual results with expected results for
the purpose of evaluating the effectiveness of control system.
Define control. Discuss the importance of control in organisational system. Explain the
elements of control.