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Assess the style of management followed in our organization and establish the correlation between the styles followed with the standard ones. Also justify your correlation with examples.
Bhatkaav Enterprises is facing huge losses. The owner of the company is an MBA pass out. Even then many things in the organization are happening which are indicative of lack of proper management in the company. Firstly propose a plan for implementing the scope for improvement in the employees and validate the same with a detailed proposal.
Rajeev is a middle lever manager. He keeps all his subordinates under a lot of discipline. His employees however complain of wastage of time and efforts as they feel that nothing is being assigned in a proper way and a proper place, also no proper schedule is made for working. Which principle of management is violated here?
Rajesh wants to become an ideal manager. For this he reads many management books. After reading various broad and general guidelines he prepares f to apply them and make his work more meaningful. The necessary outcome will be his improved output. Which concept of management has been highlighted here?
Pakka employment is a company which takes care of the fact that the confidence of the employees should always be at its peak. For this reason they give surety to their employees for employment for a minimum fixed tenure of time. Which principle of management is followed here?
A floor manager of a Mall is very capable as he utilizes all the functions of management. He lays stress on developing mutual trust and spirit of cooperation amongst the employees. Under his guidance the employees admit that they learn a lot and are able to meet their targets. This has led to increase in their salaries. Identify the principle of Fayol followed by the floor manager in the above case.
The plant superintendent of a company is very sad. When he was on leave he was expecting his subordinates to take the remaining work to the finish. However he finds a new way of dealing with this problem. He develops a system of suggestion building from the side of workers. For this a suggestion/complain box is to be kept where the workers can drop their advice and hence take steps from their side. Which principle of management has been implemented here off late by the plant superintendent?
Suresh works in a bulb manufacturing company. Each bulb which is manufactured is of standard size and quality. Further if there is any unrequired type of bulb manufactured then its production is stopped. Last month when the company came to know that 10 watt bulbs were no more liked by customers, their production was stopped. He works in the purchase department. His job is to purchase the filaments required to make bulbs. This time when he purchases the filament he gets the instruction from the seller that some special care needs to be taken in the first hour of fixing the filaments inside the bulb. Suresh knows this information should be given immediately to the production department before the assembling process starts. However he finds that his company’s policies only allow him to give the message to his immediate boss who will further pass this message to his boss. The passing of this message will continue till it reaches the desired person in the production department. Which technique of management is followed here? Also name the principle of management followed here by the company? Which option is now available to Suresh since the company is not allowing him to interact with the concerned worker in the production department?
Kavitha Enterprises is facing huge losses. The owner of the company is an MBA pass out. Even then many things in the organization are happening which are indicative of lack of proper management in the company. First of all there is no specific sharing of work and any time any employee is asked to do anything. This has led to wastage of efforts. Further due to negligence in proper work sharing there has been no specialization development in the nature of the jobs done by the employees. There are no clear and fair agreements between the workers and the management. This has led to a lot of frustration in the workers. Management has quite often been found to be ignorant of not fulfilling promises done by it. There are also no strict rules and regulations binding on the conduct of the workers. The departmental heads who are the middle level managers in the company and hold key positions always favor their relatives. They quite often don’t turn up for job on time. They are always looking for special relaxations from the top management. This has led to feeling of resentment among the employees who are also demanding special favors and threatening strike in the coming days. Identify the three principles of Fayol violated in the above case.
Ramesh is the owner of a printing press. The size of his organization has y/increased during the recent past. There are many employees who work in his organization. The organization is considered good and has earned a lot of reputation in the market. However when it comes to making key decisions in the organization related to many things he never considers the opinions of his subordinates. Even though the size of the organization has increased yet he tries to take all the key decisions on his own. Which principle of Fayol has been violated by him?
Mohan works on the floor of a mall as a manager. He is very hard working but is unable to produce results for his organization. His target for last month was a sale of 10 lakh rupees from his floor. However by the end of the month the sale was only 8 lakh rupees. He is very regular and takes all the necessary steps to complete the target. However his staff is not as competent as he himself is. When he tries to take action against disobedient employees the top management doesn’t allow him to do so. They haven’t given him the power to fire employees or take any strict action against them. Which principle of Fayol is violated here by the Organization?