MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE
DIPLOMA IN MANAGEMENT STUDIES (2013)
MODULE: PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF MANAGEMENT I
1ST SEMESTER EXAMS
INSTRUCTIONS: ANSWER ANY FOUR (4) QUESTIONS
ALL QUESTIONS CARRY EQUAL MARKS 13/05/13
Q1. Differentiate the terms ‘management’ and ‘administration’, and explain he managerial
significance of the terms ‘efficiency’ and ‘efficiency’ (25 marks)
Q2. Compare and contrast the functional and role approaches to explain what managers do.
(25 marks)
Q3a. Critically evaluate the contribution of Max Weber and Henri Fayol to our understanding
of organization (15 marks)
b. What common features do you see between Weber’s descriptions of
Bureaucracy and Fayol’s Principles of Management? (10 marks)
Q4a. Define ‘authority’ (5 marks)
b. How does Chester Barnard’s concept of ‘authority’ differ from Max Weber’s? (20 marks)
Q5. Compare and Contrast between ‘scientific’ approach to management and ‘human
relations’ approach? (25 marks)
Q6. Discuss the basic concepts underlying:
a. Herbert Simon’s theory of ‘limited’ or ‘bounded rationality’. (12.5 marks)
b. Scott and Mitchell’s theory of ‘industrial humanism’. (12.5 marks)
Q7. a. What is a ‘system’? (4 marks)
b. Differentiate between ‘open’ and ‘closed’ systems
(Give an example of each) (6 marks)
c. Using an ‘Open system’ perspective, specify and explain the
Organizational subsystems (15 marks)
MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE
ADVANCED DIPLOMA IN MANAGEMENT STUDIES (2013)
1ST SEMESTER EXAMS
MODULE: STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT
Date 14 – 05 -13
LECTRUER: DR. SASI NDURE
INSTRUCTION ANSWER ONLY FOUR QUESTIONS ALL QUESTIONS
CARRY EQUAL MARKS
1. a) What is strategy? (5 marks)
b) What questions does strategy seek to answer? (5 marks)
c) Name and explain five (5) strategy making tasks (15 marks)
2. a) Do you think strategy can help improve organizational performance?
Support your Claim (10 marks)
b) Write short notes on the following: (10 marks)
i) corporate strategy (5 marks)
ii) business Strategy (5 marks)
iii) operating strategy (5 marks)
3. a) Define ‘organisational culture’ (5 marks)
b) Explain the aid of a diagram explain what aids meant by EVR Congruence
(10 marks)
c) What are ‘core competencies’ and what assumptions are made about them?
(10 marks)
4) a) what are the primary responsibilities of a strategic manager? (10 marks)
b) Describe the strategic management process (15 marks)
5) a) Define the term ‘ strategic leader’ (5 marks)
b) What Do ‘Strategic planning’ do during institutional change? (10 marks)
c) Discuss the qualities and skills for effective strategic leadership (10 marks)
6) a) Define ‘ strategic planning’ (5 marks)
b) What are the characteristic and benefits of strategic plans? (10 marks)
c) Discuss the qualities and skills for effective strategic leadership (10 marks)
7) Using a ‘Strategic frameworks’, establish a plan, together with timetable, for the
achievement of an organization objective. (25 marks)
MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE
CERTIFICATE IN MANAGEMENT STUDIES – (2013)
MODULE: INTRODUCTION TO MANAGEMENT
INSTRUCTIONS: ANSWER ONLY ONE (1) QUESTION FROM EACH SECTION
ALL QUESTIONS CARRY EQUAL MARKS
TIME ALLOWED: THREE HOURS (12.6.13)
SECTION A
1. (a) What is Management? (5 marks)
(b) Who is a Manager? (5 marks)
(c) Identify and describe three management ‘functions’
and two managerial ‘roles’ (10 marks)
2. (a) Identify five ‘resources’ that a manager may employ in order
to achieve organizational objectives (5 marks)
(b) Identify four managerial ‘skills’ (5 marks)
(c) Differentiate between ‘effectiveness’ and ‘efficiency’ and give
an example of each. (10 marks)
SECTION B
3. (a) Explain the importance of planning as a management too! (5 marks)
(b) Explain the concept of ‘organizational mission’ and how it
influences goal setting and planning. (5 marks)
(c) Outline and comment on the steps involved in Managerial
Planning. (10 marks)
4. (a) Why is organizing important for managing an organization? (5 marks)
(b) What do you understand by ‘span of control’? (5 marks)
(c) Identify the principal factors that might influence who can
effectively be managed by one person? (10 marks)
SECTION C
5. (a) What is ‘Leadership’? (4 marks)
(b) Name and explain three leadership styles (6 marks)
(c) What factors might influence a leader’s style of leadership? (10 marks)
6. Discuss the dimensions of leadership with reference to the studies
made by the researchers at:
(a) Michigan State University (10 marks)
(b) Ohio State University (10 marks)
SECTION D
7. Compare the approaches taken by Fielder with Hersey and Blanchard,
in understanding the nature of leadership. (20 marks)
8. “Without effective leadership in an organization, the other managerial
functions cannot be adequately and efficiently performed”. Discuss. (20 marks)
SECTION E
9. (a) What do you understand by the term ‘Control’? (4 marks)
(b) Why is control important in managing an organization? (4 marks)
(c) Identify and describe the four steps of control (12 marks)
10. (a) Explain:
(i) Feed forward control (4 marks)
(ii) Concurrent Control (4 marks)
(iii) Feedback Control (4 marks)
(b) Differentiate between ‘bureaucratic’ control and ‘clan’ control (8 marks)
