$2013/2014$

$1.$ Discuss the six main emerging trends in organisational behaviour and their implications for managers.

$2.$ Discuss your understanding of the four strategies of organisational control that have been identified by Child $(1984).$

$3.$ Highlight the requirements for effective control systems.

$4.$ Employee motivation is paramount in the workplace. Discuss your understanding of Maslow$$s hierarchy of needs theory.

$5.$ Evaluate the theory and indicate its implications for management.

$6.$ Account for the main sources of conflict and its outcomes on organisational performance.

$7.$ Majority of managerial decision making follows one of two basic approaches. Discuss your understanding to decision making and two approaches to it$.$

$8.$ Explain the criteria for good decision making

$2016/2017$

$9.$ Discuss five factors that have compared most managers in Africa to rarely adopt the contingency leadership approach

$10.$ Informal communication is not good at the workplace, it undermines authority and should hence not be encouraged by mangers. Advance arguments for and against this proposition.

$11.$ Discuss five reasons why nonverbal communication seem to stifle productivity in most organisations in Ghana.

$12.$ Discuss five factors that have made the rational decision making unpopular among Ghanaian managers.

$2016/20217$ b

$13.$ Identify any three management skills

$14.$ Discuss the levels at which the skills identified in $13$ above may be more relevant

$15.$ Explain any two forms of managerial decision making

$16.$ Discuss any five approaches to decision making

$17.$ Explain any five levels of conflict that exist in an organisation.

$18.$ Discuss any five approaches you can approach to manage conflict at the workplace

$19.$ Differentiate between content theory of motivation and process theory of motivation

$20.$ Identify and explain two theories each under content and process theories of motivation and their implications at the workplace

$21.$ What is perception

$22.$ Explain any four perceptual distortions

$23.$ Discuss the consequences that a manger$$s perception might have in managing the employment relationship

$24.$ While communication is important in the workplace, there are various factors that can serve as barriers. Give and explain four factors that can serve as barriers to communication

$25.$ Until recently, intergroup conflict has often been considered to be detrimental to any organisation. However, times have changed and experts have now come to believe that dysfunctional intergroup conflict can been seen from both sides. As an expert in Management and Organisational behaviour,

i$.$ What is an intergroup conflict?

ii$.$ Give three dysfunctional and three functional arguments for intergroup conflict