MGMT722 Management Skills Final

1. Ahmed HR Manager found that his assistant mangers; Talha and Haris, are no
more productive and satisfied with their job due to situational stressors. Help
Ahmed to eliminate situational stress of Talha and Haris through strategies of work
redesign.
2. It is observed that all employees encounter different types of stress of different level at workplace that
affect their productivity. What key steps an organization should take to minimize or eliminate workplace
stress?
3. According to the researcher, supportive communication isnt just a nice-person technique, but a
proven competitive advantage for both managers and organizations. Justify the statement on logical
grounds.
4. Maslows hierarchy of needs theory underlines that people are motivated to satisfy their most basic
unfulfilled needs i.e. higher-level need will not be activated unless lower-level need has been satisfied.
We see that safety and physiological needs of self-actualized persons who pursue bigger meaning in life,
such as Nelson Mandela, have been threatened many times throughout their life. Keeping such people in
focus, do you think assumption of hierarchy of needs theory is not applicable in the lives of highly selfactualized persons? Provide sound justification for your stance.
5. With strong power comes a great responsibility. History has witnessed leaders who used power to
create positive as well as drastic negative outcome. Take your mind back to the history and give examples
of leaders who abused power and brought positive change using power.
6. Awarding the rewards (financial or non-financial) to employees is motivational strategy organizations
frequently use to enhance work performance. However, this strategy also demotivates some employees.
How rewarding strategy is non effective for employees?
7. Murtaza an MS student wants to measure how much second line managers are empowered in
organization but he is stuck to operationally define empowerment. Help him to understand empowerment
by discussing its dimensions.
8. According to the Lester Urwick one of the grand masters of management lack of courage and
competency of managers to delegate responsibilities among subordinates lead to failure of organization.
Justify the statement.
9. For a positive change to have staying in power organizations struggle to build human capital i.e. to
build skill set of people upon which organizational success is built. But it can be very risky and expensive
for organizations to spend money on employees training. How can 'building human capital' is feasible
strategy for organizations for positive change to lasts in long run?