Management Answers

Discuss the advantages, disadvantages and the major challenges that contemporary organizations are facing in terms of workforce diversity, by focusing on ‘values across cultures’ 

Question 2 The use of proper communication skills is essential for successful organizational operations. It ensures proper transfer of information from one level to the other.  a) In light of the above statement, critically explain the three main formal communication structures that can be used in an organization.             (AP 6 marks) b) Critically analyze three ways in which the lack proper communication can be detrimental to an organization.  (AN 6 marks) c) Discuss with aid of concrete examples how high-risk taking managers operate differently from low-risk taking managers by offering two (2) characteristic distinctions in each case.

Please these questions are under group dynamics and communications  

Question 1 “Commitment refers to an individual’s attitude involving a level of motivation and willingness (or level of intensity) to belong to the team and help achieve the team’s defined goals. ”. a) Based on the above statement and using tangible examples, critically explain the four main ways of building commitment in a group.          (CR 8 marks) b) With examples, summarize any three attributes of emotional intelligence useful for effective leadership.          (EV 6marks) c) In your own opinion, how would you differentiate between formal and informal groups? Support your answer with concrete examples.

please these questions are under group dynamics and communication

Discuss the advantages, disadvantages and the major challenges that contemporary organizations are facing in terms of workforce diversity, by focusing on ‘values across cultures’.

As your country’s Employment Relations Manager of Ministry for Labour and Employment Relations, in an essay form write a non-biased report to your Minister. This is in response to some emerging or existing features of Unitary Theory of employment relations in your country’s private sector. Evaluate the features or emerging features of Unitary Theory of employment relations in your country’s private sector employment. What are the advantages, disadvantages and some of the major challenges that the three main actors are facing in the emerging or existing unitary environment? What are some of your recommendation(s), if any? Feel free to use other literatures to support your arguments and also provide relevant example(s) to justify your argument(s

As your country’s Employment Relations Manager of Ministry for Labour and Employment Relations, in an essay form write a non-biased report to your Minister. This is in response to some emerging or existing features of Unitary Theory of employment relations in your country’s private sector. Evaluate the features or emerging features of Unitary Theory of employment relations in your country’s private sector employment. What are the advantages, disadvantages and some of the major challenges that the three main actors are facing in the emerging or existing unitary environment? What are some of your recommendation(s), if any? Feel free to use other literatures to support your arguments and also provide relevant example(s) to justify your argument(s

Kofi and Ama, computer consultants, are considering embarking on a joint project that will involve development of relatively small commercial software package for personal computers. The program involves scientific calculations for a specialized portion of the engineering market. Kofi and Ama have broken down the project into nine tasks and have estimated the time required for each task. The list of these tasks, the times required and the precedence relationships are given below

Task Time Required (in weeks)

1-2 3

2-3 4

2-4 2

3-5 6

4-5 5

4-6 3

5-6 7

6-7 5

7-8 8

(a) Draw the network of the project.

(b) Determine the slack/floats of each activity.

(c) As a management science student, advise Kofi and Ama on the effect of the critical path and the project completing time.

d) As a management science student, advise Kofi and Ama the effect on the project completion time if activities 2-3 and 4-6 are delayed for 3 weeks and 6 weeks respectively. Present your answer in the form of memo. 

You are a public relations manager at an organisation called Tshiwandalani. There is a public outcry because your organisation does not have a corporate communication strategy to deal with the effects of a drought in the country. As a public relations manager at Tshiwandalani, you are commissioned by the board of directors to develop and implement a corporate communication strategy. Firstly, follow the steps to show practically how you will formulate a corporate communication strategy. Secondly, give practical examples of how you will implement Tshiwandalani's envisaged corporate communication strategy

Identify five (5) groups of stakeholders of The Rock Company and explain their relationship/interest with the company. Use examples from the case study to support the explanation of the relationship. (15)

Present the answer to this question in a table format