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This document is a past paper with questions on management principles like decision-making processes, organizational design, human resources and leadership. It covers key areas and concepts within management studies.

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Management Principles Exam: Management is the process in which managers engage to achieve organisational goals through deployment of human, financial, knowledge and physical assets. Planning Decision Making Process: - Problem identifying - Identifying alternatives - Evaluating alternativ...

Management Principles Exam: Management is the process in which managers engage to achieve organisational goals through deployment of human, financial, knowledge and physical assets. Planning Decision Making Process: - Problem identifying - Identifying alternatives - Evaluating alternatives - Choice of alternatives - Implementation - Evaluation Organisation Design: - distinction between structural configuration and structural operation - Types of departmentalisation - How organisational structure has evolved Managing Human Resources: - Understand key areas of the HR function Leadership: - Understand the criticality of leadership in organisational functioning - To understand key theories of leadership in the form of trait, behavioural, contingency and charismatic ideas Motivation: - Explains why people behave as they do or why people choose alternative forms of behaviour in order to achieve certain outcomes - Content versus Process theories Control: - The centrality of control to organisational survival and success - Difference between Feedforward, Concurrent and Feedback controls - Common Financial and non-financial controls. Exam: - 1 hour 30 Mins - 40 MCQs (5 possible answers- a,b,c,d,e)

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