Homework Answers

The city of Mysuru is one of the cleanest cities of India and is in close driving distance

from Bengaluru, the IT hub. You have been invited as an external IT consultant by

Government of India with a mandate to convert Mysuru into a “Smart City”

a. Which “Smart” city in the world will you choose as a benchmark to emulate some of the

best practices of that city into Mysuru? Provide atleast 3 reasons with brief descriptions

behind your choice of choosing that particular city as a benchmark?

b. Suggest & describe atleast 2 innovative technology enabled services that you will

introduce into Mysuru so that it can be called as a “Smart city”?

Choose any e-Governance initiative of any country in the world which is aimed at helping

the poor & the needy sections of the society. Enlist atleast 10 benefits of having

implemented this system for the benefit of this downtrodden section.

State the requirements as listed in the electronic communication and transactions act 25 of 2002 for an automated transaction to be valid

Green Bell is a retail giant in India. Currently only confined to metro cities for their giant super store outlets, they are planning to spread to smaller cities in India. While working on the resource allocation, HR is planning on shifting a few of the current staff to new locations while recruiting local staff at each location in parallel. They need to engage the current staff in training for the newer audience. Discuss the expansion from the point of view of Hofstede’s five dimensions to include in the training.

EarthMovers Ltd are into providing heavy vehicle services. They have various heavy

vehicles like tractors, cranes, bull dozers, mixer trucks, etc. They have been growing

increasingly and have employed a total staff of 1200. They have divided their business in

a Divisional structure. Based on this information, answer the following questions.

a. Discuss the features of divisional structure of organization and infer the divisions that

EarthMovers may have employed.

b. Elaborate on the factors that influence organizational structures.

Sateesh is a project manager in an IT company. He needs to deploy some additional

developers to be based on site. He has a meeting with the HR for the same and needs to

give a plan of resource deployment to the HR with clarity on how many new members vs

how many current developers can be deployed on site. Managers have to make many

decisions. Discuss various types of decisions managers typically make based on nature

of the decisions, level of the management or capacity.

Mr. Ranveer Goswami, the current CEO retired from the organization and everyone bid

him a very emotional farewell. He was a people’s leader and the team was going to

certainly miss him. The young CEO Ms. Riya Talwar who was going to take his position

had a tall task ahead of her. She was eager to implement the ideas she had in mind to

expand the organization and was one focused leader, doing everything in her capacity to

lead the organization to greater success.

a. Ms. Riya did not get the welcome or support she expected from the team. Her plans were

not implemented with the same vigour that she had imagined? Which common

organizational pitfalls in leadership are described in this scenario?

b. Correlating it to the above situation, explain how emotional intelligence would help the

new CEO get the support she expects from her employees?

. Performance of employees at the workplace depends on their personality traits. Describe

the five major traits that most researchers agree upon and explain how they lead to

meaningful workplace behaviour.

Interpersonal relationships between superiors and subordinates in an organization involve

different kinds of power equations. In your opinion, arrange the 5 sources of power in

order of importance, that are based on superior subordinate relationships in an

organization. Justify your preference.