DISTANCE EDUCATION
M.B.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION, MAY 2018.
First Semester
MANAGEMENT CONCEPTS
(Upto 2012 13 Academic Year and
2013 Calendar Year Only)
(English medium only)
Time Three hours Maximum 100 marks
SECTION A — x 8 40 marks)
Answer any FIVE questions.
All questions carry equal marks.
1. Discuss the nature of management.
2. What are the essential characteristics of the
management? Do they suffer from any limitations.
3. What is the concept of planning as an element of
management process?
4. What are the essential characteristics of a good decision?
5. What are the main pillar of classical organisation theory.
6. What is the concept of motivation? How does it affect
behaviour?
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7. What is the need of coordination?
8. What do you mean by total quality management?
SECTION B — × 15 60 marks)
Answer any FOUR questions.
9. Assess the role of Peter F. Drucker in the development of
management.
10. "Policies are guides for managerial action". Discuss
should policies be permanent or subject to ready change?
Explain.
11. What are the features of good organisation structure?
12. What is the systems approach of staffing? Who should
bear the responsibility of staffing in an organisaton.
Explain.
13. "Dynamic leadership is an integral part of effective
management". Discuss.
14. Explain the special Control techniques.
15. Analyze the role of technology and information
technology in the field of management.