ALTERNATE ACADEMIC CALENDAR – 2020-21

DAILY PLAN NO: R-1 SUBJECT: BUSINESS STUDIES

DATE:28.10.20 CLASS: XII

NAME OF THE CHAPTER: DIRECTING

NAME OF TEACHER: MS SUCHITRA KAMATH

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WORKSHEET (SOLVE IN YOUR BUSINESS STUDIES NOTE BOOK)

Q. 1. Ayesha Ltd. Assured their employees that in spite of recession no worker will be retrenched from
the job.
(i) Name and explain the type of incentive offered to the employees.
(ii) Explain one more incentive of the same category.

Q. 2. Blue Birds Ltd. Offers to its employees issue of shares at a price which is less than the market
price.
(i) Name and explain the type of incentive offered to the employees.
(ii) Explain one more incentive of the same category.

Q. 3. ABC Ltd. Is not able to achieve its objective on analyzing, they found that employees were not
given their best, so he decided to announce an incentive plain, which offers various incentives to
employee workers at different level for achieving their target.
(i) Which element of directing is used by manager?
(ii) Suggest incentive suitable for:

Q.4 One of the employee of “Hindustan agriculture limited” receive an order from the departmental
manager and passes it on to the Non-managerial Members. Because actual work in the organization is
done by the Non-managerial Members, therefore even a little carelessness in delivering the massage can
lead to heavy loss. This employee performs the role of the human relation special also.
Identify the designation of the employee describe above.

Q.5. One of the Newspapers had an article printed under the title “Business success mantra -
Motivation”. Some portion of the article are as under:-
‘’If an employee has a sense of fear or insecurity in his mind, that he can be removed from his
job any tome, he will never work wholeheartedly and this worry continues troubling him. On
the other hand if he has a feeling that his job is secure and permanent and he cannot be
removed from his job easily, he will work’ without any worry and with an easy mind.
Consequently, his efficiency increases. This is the reason why people prefer a permanent job
with less salary to a temporary job with more salary”
Which concept of motivation has been described in the above portion of the article? Identify.
Q.6. Identify the elements of directing in the following cases:
• Arun who is the departmental head of his organisation decides to improve the performance
of his department. He decides to give some financial and non financial incentives to his
subordinates. He knows these incentives will satisfy their needs. Therefore they will be
stimulated to take actions from their side.
• Rajeev is an HR manager leading a team of 12 people. He knows that the duties and
responsibilities of an HR employee are challenging. He knows in order to make his team
work with a positive frame of mind, he will have to set a personal example as a role model
and influence their behaviour and working style to increase the output of his team.
• Rajesh who works at the shop floor is a lower level manager. He is heading a team of 25
workers. He oversees and guides their efforts on a regular basis and tries to maximize the
output of his unit by timely giving them feedback. His team has group unity and works
with dedication to complete their targets on time.
• Kavita is a CEO. She has recently replaced Mr. Anuj who was an unsuccessful CEO. The
profits of the company fell to a new low during his time. Kavita has a lot of challenges in
front of her, major being the lack of enthusiasm in the organisation. In order to set things
right she is trying to set a personal example in front of the employees by working with
dedication and putting 16 to 17 hours in her job on a daily basis.

Q.7 Atul is a branch manager of a bank in a suburban area of a city. The employees of this branch have
not been able to do very well in the recent past. He is upset due to their poor performance and decides to
know the reason behind it. After some research he finds out that each employee has some reason to join
the bank. This reason if satisfied could improve the performance of that person.
Which element of directing has been identified by Atul here?
Name one more interrelated concept.
Q8. Identify the steps of motivation process in the following cases:

1. Rajeev is concerned about his new job. He has got a good job but the problem is distance. He is
very far from his home and his family needs his support.
2. Sudeep got transferred to various departments and companies. He is a pass-out from a good
college. That is why he never had shortage of availability of jobs. Finally he got settled in a
department of operations. He is happy as he feels here is where he can make difference to his
company since his favourite subject was operations management.
3. Ramesh is trying to get the job of his nature. He is applying to various companies. He is searching
for new options at concerned websites.
4. Joy has got a job of a branch manager in a company. He was offered a decent salary of ?50,000 per
month. However when he started receiving payment at the end of the month he got only ?42,000.
Now he considers this salary as insufficient.

Q9.Manav wanted to bring some changes in his company. One of those changes was the establishment of
new software in the organisation. The software has the capability to judge the performance of all the
employees. Thus it makes them more accountable. However, recently it so happened that the employees
resisted Manav’s decision. After a lot of thinking on the issue he decided to call a meeting to address
their needs and performance. He told them that with the installation of the new software their needs
would be fulfilled and the best performing employee would be rewarded. Thus he was able to bring
down the resistance level of the employees.

1. Which concept of directing is applied by Manav in the above case?

2. Which one benefit of this concept has been highlighted in the above case?