Name of the Organization : Tamil Nadu Open University
Degree : M.B.A Degree Examination
Document Type : Sample Question Paper
Year : 2015
Subject : Management Functions And Behaviour

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M.B.A Degree Examination Question Paper :
Time : 3 hours
Maximum marks : 75
PART A — (3 * 5 = 15 marks)
Answer any THREE questions :
1. What is ‘Departmentation’? Explain the advantages and disadvantages of departmentation.
2. Distinguish ‘Authority’ and ‘Power’.
3. Define ‘Recruitment’. What are the advantages and disadvantages of using internal sources of recruitment?
4. Define ‘Job Satisfaction’. What are the consequential benefits of ‘Job Satisfaction’?
5. Explain Blake and Mouton’s ‘Managerial Grid’.

Answer any FOUR questions :
All questions carry equal marks.
6. What is ‘Planning’? Explain the types of planning and related steps in planning process.
7. Define ‘Communication’. ‘Communication is seldom effective’ – analyze by explaining various barriers to communication.
8. ‘Maslow’s need hierarchy theory even today offers some useful ideas for managers to motivate the individuals’ – Analyze the statement by explaining the theory in detail.
9. Define ‘Conflict’. Explain three levels of conflict with the help of suitable illustrations.
10. Briefly explain ‘Organisational Culture’. What are the suggested ways of managing the organizational culture?
11. What is ‘Organisational Change’? What are the various attributed reasons for resisting the change?
12. Explain the features and importance of decision making. Outline the process and techniques of decision making.

Managerial Economics :
Answer any THREE questions :
All questions carry equal marks.
1. Explain briefly the nature and scope of managerial economics.
2. Describe the producer’s equilibrium with the help of isocost lines and isoquants.
3. Bring out the features of monopolistic competition.
4. Explain the benefits of break even analysis.
5. Distinguish between ‘Balance of Trade’ and ‘Balance of payment’.

Answer any FOUR questions :
All questions carry equal marks.
6. What is meant by ‘elasticity of demand’? Explain the methods of measuring of elasticity of demand.
7. What do you understand by law of demand? Explain the various exceptions to the law of demand.
8. Explain the law of variable proportion.
9. Explain the conditions of a Firm’s equilibrium under perfect competition.
10. How is price determined under monopolistic competition in the short period and in the long period?

Financial And Management Accounting :
Answer any THREE questions.
All questions carry equal marks.
1. What are accounting concepts and convention? How are they evolved?
2. Explain the objectives of Analysis and Interpretation of financial statement.
3. From the following particulars calculate the stock turnover ratio
(a) Opening stock Rs. 40,000
(b) Closing stock Rs. 44,000
(c) Sales Rs. 4,15,000
(d) Gross profit ratio 20%
4. What is budget? Explain the different steps in installing a sound budgetary control system.