Management and Organization Behaviour Assignments, as per Osmania University Syllalus

1. MBA – I Year
MB101: MANAGEMENT AND ORGANIZATION BEHAVIOR - ASSIGNMENTS
Unit I
1. (a) What is management? (b) Discuss the process and functions of management.
2. Discuss Scientific & Modern Management.
3. Discuss: (a) 3D model of management behavior, (b) MBO and (c) MBWA.
4. Discuss: (a) Peter’s Principle, (b) Parkinson’s Law, (c) Hawthorne’s Experiments, (d) Human
Engineering, and (e) Difference between line and staff.
5. Discuss Main Approaches to Organisation, Structure & Management: (a) Classical, (b) Human
Relations, (c) Systems and (d) Contingency.
Unit II
1. (a) Define Decision Making, (b) Discuss Importance, Characteristics and Process of Decision
Making, (c) Define Negotiation and discuss the various approaches to Negotiation.
2. Discuss the approaches to Decision Making: (a) Rational, (b) Behavioral, (c) Practical and
(d) Personal.
3. Discuss Open and Closed Models of Decision Making.
4. (a) What is Planning? (b) Discuss: (i) Different Types of Plans and (ii) Steps in Planning.
5. Write short notes on: (a) Bureaucracy, (b) Authority, (c) Responsibility, (d) Centralisation,
(e) Decentralisation, and (f) Recentralisation.
Unit III
1.(a) What is Psychological Contract? (b) Explain different Types of Psychological Contracts,
and (c) Discuss Personal Construct Theory.
2. (a) What is Personality and Personality Traits? (b) Discuss (i) Organisationally Relevant
Personality traits, (ii) Big 5 Personality traits, and (iii) MBTI inventory.
3. (a) What is Perception? (b) Discuss: (i) Process of Perception, (ii) Factors influencing
perception, (iii) Perceptual distortions & errors, and (iv) Attribution Theory.

2. 4. (a) What is Motivation? (b) Discuss Content Theories of Motivation: (i) Maslow, (ii) Alderfer,
(iii) Herzberg, (iv) McCleland.
5. Discuss Process Theories of Motivation: (i) Vroom, (ii) Porter & Lawler, (iii) Equity Theory
and (iv) Goal Theory.
Unit IV
1. (a) What is Organisational Behaviour? (b) Discuss Models of Organisational Behaviour:
(i) Autocratic Model, (ii) Custodial Model, (iii) Supportive Model, (iv) Collegial Model, and
(v) System Model.
2. (a) Define Leadership? (b) Discuss: (i) Trait & Behaviourial Approaches to Leadership,
(ii) Path Goal Theory, (iii) Vroom’s Decision Tree Approach to Leadership, and (iv) Hersey &
Blanchard Model.
3. Explain: (i) Transactional Analysis, (ii) Johari Window, and (iii) Managerial Grid.
4. (a) Describe various types of groups in organization and (b) Explain Group Dynamics.
5. (i) Discuss: (i) Nature of Conflict, (ii) Various Types of Conflict in Groups, (iii) Reactions to
Conflict, and (iv) Pondy’s Model of Organizational Conflict.
Unit V
1. (a) What is Organization Design? (b) Discuss in brief: (i) Various Elements of Organization
Design and (ii) Traditional and Contemporary Organization Designs.
2. (a) What is Communication? (b) Discuss: (i) Barriers to Effective Communication,
(ii) Communication Process, and (iii) Strategies for Effective Communication.
3. (a) What you mean by: (i) Organizational Culture and (ii) Organisational Climate? (b) What
are the components of: (i) Organizational Culture and (ii) Organisational Climate.
4. (a) What is stress? (b) What are the causes of stress? (c) What are the various techniques for
managing stress? What are the techniques for employee counselling?
5. (a) What is management of change and organization development? (b) Discuss the change
management process and (c) Discuss the emerging aspects of Organisational Behaviour.