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Organization Theory Question Paper

Organization Theory

Course:Bachelor Of Commerce

Institution: University Of Nairobi question papers

Exam Year:2013

UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI
MODULE II DEGREE PROGRAMME – 2012/2013 (NAIROBI DAY)
SECOND YEAR EXAMINATIONS FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF COMMERCE
DBA 203: ORGANIZATION THEORY

DATE: MAY 8, 2013 TIME: 11:30 A.M. – 1:30 P.M.

INSTRUCTIONS:
Attempt any FOUR Questions

1) Give an example from your personal experience of how differences in tasks, personal background and training can lead to conflict among groups. How might task interdependence have influenced the conflict? (20 marks)

2) You have been appointed the CEO of a company in Nairobi. The company is facing a lean environment capacity. How and why would you design your company’s structural design to deal with the challenges of lean environment? How would your structural design be if the lean environmental capacity changes to a rich environmental capacity and why? (20 marks)

3) You have been assigned the task of recommending a new structural design for a company manufacturing bolts and nuts in Nairobi. Which structural design would you recommend (organic or mechanistic) if the technical complexity of the company is high: why? (20 marks)

4) Discuss the possible relationships employees can have with their organizations. Which one of the relationships would you prefer and why? (20 marks)

5) Organizations face external environments which are complex. One way of dealing with the complexity is to design organization structures which are appropriate for each type of environmental complexity.

Required:
a) Define environmental complexity. (5 marks)
b) Define structural complexity. (5 marks)
c) Propose and rationalize an appropriate structure environmental complexity alignment. (10 marks)

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