NMIMS Global Access 
School for Continuing Education (NGA‐SCE) 
Course: Management Theory and Practice 
Internal Assignment Applicable for December 2017 Examination 
 
Assignment Marks: 30                                               
Instructions:  

 All Questions carry equal marks. 
 All Questions are compulsory 
 All  answers  to  be  explained  in  not  more  than  1000  words  for  question  1  and  2  and  for 
question  3  in  not  more  than  500  words  for  each  subsection.  Use  relevant  examples, 
illustrations as far as possible. 
 All answers to be written individually. Discussion and group work is not advisable.  
 Students  are  free  to  refer  to  any  books/reference  material/website/internet  for 
attempting  their  assignments,  but  are  not  allowed  to  copy  the  matter  as  it  is  from  the 
source of reference.  

 Students should write the assignment in their own words. Copying of assignments from 
other students is not allowed 
 Students are expected to include the following parameters such as introduction, 
application of the concepts related to the question asked, conclusion/inference for each 
question being answered 

Q 1. A large e-commerce company has recently broken off talks for a potential sale. The
company has had infusion of fresh funds through a sale. Encouraged by the
development; the company is now looking to restructure themselves. You are
required to discuss various approaches to Organization Structure and suggest an
appropriate approach with reasoning. (10 Marks)

Q 2. As the Manager HR in the company currently in a downturn, you realize that

managers took bolder decisions when things were better. You are required to study
the decision making pattern and suggest to the management an approach that could
facilitate effective decision making at tough times like these. (10 Marks)

 
 
  

NMIMS Global Access 
School for Continuing Education (NGA‐SCE) 
Course: Management Theory and Practice 
Internal Assignment Applicable for December 2017 Examination 

Q 3. As the Chief Mentor and Coach of the company you are required to mentor and
coach the High performers of the company as part of their success plan.

a. Explain the difference between a manager and a leader. Explain with examples the
different types of leaderships (minimum 2 styles) (5 Marks)

b. Explain any one of the Traditional motivational models and give them examples to
discuss. (5 Marks)

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