Mgm101 Midterm

MGM101 Test 3 Short Answer Questions Organizations can use internal recruitment and external recruitment activities to f alone upon the best employees for a position. cast these two approaches and provide one advantage for using each(prenominal) approach. (4 Marks) One betray for each correct description and an additional mark for providing an advantage External Candidates be sought from outside of the organization (not current employees) through methods such as want ads, head hunters (recruiters), job fairs, on-campus recruiting, etc avail allows firms to acquire new perspectives, expertise, and capabilities that they do not currently possess. Internal Recruits candidates from within the organization (current employees) though internal postings, newsletters and promoting employees through management recommendations. Advantage Less expensive, mightiness already known, fosters loyalty and increases motivation (Shermerhorn page 287) Describe two initiatives that a company ca n take to help its employees to balance work with their lives? (2 Marks)One mark each for proper description of any two appropriate initiatives including Flexible working hours, work from home (telecommuting), vacations, paid leave, leaves of absence, job sharing, on-site daycare, elder care assistance, concierge services, etc (Shermerhorn pages 294-295) Describe how work is organized in firms utilizing a divisional organizational structure. List and describe two advantages and two disadvantages of a divisional organizational structure. (5 Marks) One mark for proper description of how divisional structures organize work. One mark each for each advantage and disadvantage listed and described.Divisional structures organize work by grouping throng together working on the same, products, customers, processes or in the same geographic area. Advantages (choose two) More flexibility responding to market changes, Improved coordination, clear responsibility for product or service delivery, expertise focused on specific customers products or regions, greater ease in changing size Disadvantages (choose two) Redundancy of functions, reduced efficiencies or economies of scale, increase unhealthy internal rivalries, division objectives may replace organizations (Shermerhorn pages 225-227)A manufacturer continues to dump overplus from their plant into the local river despite opposition from the local community. Residents complain that the waste is making the water unsafe for families and their children, and is killing water life and vegetation downstream. Plant managers state that they are doing nothing wrong and are meeting all legal and regulatory requirements. Are the manufacturers actions ethical? Discuss the reasoning for your opinion. Describe two stairs the manufacturer can take to improve their business moral philosophy? 4 Marks) One mark for stating whether actions are ethical or not and one mark for proper reasoning. One mark each for describing two steps for improving ethics Actions are Unethical Definition of ethical behaviour is broader than just its legality. Organizations have a broader responsibility to its stakeholders which include the surrounding communities and the environment. presidential term agencies are influenced by industry and do not always prioritize the interests of the public. How can any waste dumping be safe?Actions are ethical Government sets regulations to ensure that safety standards are being met and as long as the manufacturer is meeting those requirements, it must be safe and they must be performing ethically. There is no proof that their waste is harming anyone and besides, who should determine these standards if not the appropriate government agencies. Six-Steps to improve ethics Top management adopt code of conduct, older leadership by example, Ethics embedded in training, Set up Ethics office, External stakeholder informed of code of ethics, Enforcement (Nickels page 146) S. W. O. T. is an acronym fo r strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. Which of these two are link to an organizations external environment? Which two are related to the internal attributes of an organization? (2 Marks) 0. 5 marks for each correct placement of pulverisation in internal and external categories. External OT, Opportunities and Threats Internal SW, Strengths and Weaknesses (Shermerhorn pages 195-196) In the RSA Animate Drive The surprising truth about what motivates us video bear witnessn in family unit the narrator presented some surprising findings from the M.I. T. and India experiments that tested the motivating ability of monetary incentives. What were these surprising findings and discuss how these finding contradict the underlying assumptions of the Classical Management Approaches (3 Marks) dickens marks for describing the findings. One mark for explaining the contradiction Underlying assumption of classical approaches is that people are rational and are driven by economic c oncerns.Study results show that for tasks that were largely mechanical in nature (simple and straight forward), that greater incentives led to higher performance but when the task involved even rudimentary cognitive skill (conceptual, creative thinking), larger rewards led to poorer performance suggesting that the economic incentives did not motivate employees to improve performance. This would not be considered rational according to proponents of the classical approaches. (Shermerhorn pages 45 and RSA Animate video http//www. youtube. com/watch? v=umhhPj7t8FE)