G 7 by Business Studies

aarushimehta0623 — 2024-08-28 15:45:01 UTC

Q1. Mr. Shubhendu Bose is the owner of ‘Bikmac Enterprise’ carrying on the business of manufacturing various kinds of biscuits. There was a lot of discontentment in the organization and the targets were not being met. He asked his son, Naval, who had recently completed his MBA, to find out the reason. Naval found that all decision making of the enterprise were in the hands of his father. His father didn’t believe in his employees. As a result both the employer and the employees were not able to understand each other’s messages in the same sense. Thus, the employees were not happy and targets were not met.

(a) Identify any two communication barriers because of which Bikmac Enterprise was not able to achieve its target.

(b) State one more barrier each of the types identified in (a) above. [3]

aarushimehta0623 — 2024-08-28 15:45:01 UTC

Q2. Agrima, Arunima and Avika are pursuing MBA from a reputed institution. Now it is the time of their placement.

Agrima wants to work in a company which would provide her more authority for fulfilling her duties and will give recognition, rewards, perquisites and prestige of job. Arunima wants to work in an organisation in which behaviour of individuals is influenced by its characteristics like autonomy, reward orientation, consideration to employees, risk taking etc. Avika wants to join the organisation which has appropriate skill development programmes and sound promotion policy that encourages employees to exhibit improved performance.

Identify and state the incentives about which Agrima, Arunima and Avika are talking about. [3]

aarushimehta0623 — 2024-08-28 15:45:01 UTC

Q3. Avdhesh is the Managing Director of Delta Ltd. The company had established a good name for itself and had been doing well. It was known for timely completion of orders. The production Manager, Ms. Priyanka was efficiently handling the processing of orders and had a team of ten motivated employees working under her. Everything was going on well.

Unfortunately, Priyanka met with an accident. Avdhesh knew that in the absence of Priyanka, the company may not be able to meet the deadlines which may lead to customer dissatisfaction with the risk of loss of business and goodwill. So, he had a meeting with his employees in which accurate and speedy processing of orders was planned. Everybody agreed to work as a team because the behaviour of Avdhesh was positive towards the employees of the organisation. Everyone put in extra time and efforts and the targets were met on time.

Identify the leadership style of Avdhesh. [1]

aarushimehta0623 — 2024-08-28 15:45:01 UTC