Question 1
Organizations have both an internal as well as an external environment. Define the general environment and give at least one specific example of each dimension other than the instances given in the text and in the lectures
Question 2
You are an administrator of a Consulting firm with 25 employees under your supervision. Employee Motivation seems to be slipping as well as employee performance. Employees seem to have an undesirable attitude about their work which has led to some turnover of employees and an increase in absenteeism. You have been requested to provide upper management with recommendations of how to improve motivation of the employees. Please create an inspiration plan and list the main motivational theories you are applying in this plan. You must come up with a minimum of three ideas on how to improve motivation
Question 3
You are the plant administrator at Acme Plastics. You are consecutively two shifts, a day shift and an evening shift. Previously the day shift leaves each day, the workers should get an adequate supply of raw materials from the warehouse for the evening shift to use. On numerous occasions, they have failed to do so. By the period the evening shift gets to work, the warehouse is locked up and it takes about three hours to get somebody out to unlock it and get the production line rolling again. The two shift managers are at each other's throats, and you have to prepare something to correct the situation. What is the elementary problem causing this conflict? What could you do to resolve it?
Question 4
Our text describes the four functions of a management as Organizing, Planning, Leading and Controlling. Briefly put the plan states the favourite outcome or goal and the process for achieving it. Control is the regulation of organizational activities as well as processes in such a way as to facilitate goal attainment. Suppose that you are a manager of a business. Mention the type of business you are managing (it can be any business you choose). Give two instances of controls that you would implement in the business as well as how they could facilitate goal attainment