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Seat No.: Enrolment
GUJARAT TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY
MBA SEMESTER 1 EXAMINATION WINTER 2018
Subject Code:4519204 Date:28/12/2018
Subject Name: Organizational Behavior
Time: 10:30 AM To 01:30 PM Total Marks: 70
Instructions:
1. Attempt all questions.
2. Make suitable assumptions wherever necessary.
3. Figures to the right indicate full marks.
Q.
No.
Marks
Q.1 Explain the terms in brief
Management Functions
Leadership
OCB
Glass Ceiling
Social Loafing
Span of control
Attitude
14
Q.2 Explain in brief Scientific Management Theory proposed by
F.W.Taylor along with its contribution and limitation
07
What are the challenges opportunities for OB in 21'st century?
07
OR
What are the important features of Bureaucratic administration?
Discuss its dysfunctional consequences.
07
Q.3 What do you mean by attitude? What are the major Job
Attitude in organization? Explain in detail organization
commitment.
07
Explain in brief Equity theory of motivation. What are the
deviations in behavior in case of over rewarded employee?
07
OR
Q.3 What is personality? What are the Big Five Personality Traits?
Explain with example
07
Explain in detail the Job Characteristics Model of Motivation?
How can Jobs be redesigned?
07
Q .4 What do you mean by group? What are the five stages of group
development? What are the advantages of group decision making?
07
What is power? Explain in brief Five bases of power. Also give
your opinion for your favorite power base with reason.
07
OR
Q.4 What is attribution Theory? What are the three determinants of
attribution? How it is helpful to managers?
07
Compare contrast the team group, Explain various key team
roles for effective team performance?
07
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Q.5 Case; Leadership at PEPSICO
Pepsico's three primary lines of business with five brands are snack foods
(Frito-Lay its largest units), beverages (Pepsi, Tropicana, Gatorade), and
Quaker foods (such as Quaker Oats cereals, Quaker Rice cakes, Chewy
Granola Bars, Rice-A-Roni, and its Aunt Jemima brand). PepsiCo is a $60
billion company getting 50 percent of its revenues from overseas, and its
commands about 40 percent of the global market in salty snacks. Pepsico ranks
in the top 50 on the Fortune500 list and is number 1 in the Food and consumer
product category, and it is in the top 175 of the fortune Global 500 (Coca-Cola
is #70 and #404). It was ranked 26th on the Fortune world's most Admired
Companies list.
Indra K. Nooyi is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Pepsico, and
according to Fortune, Nooyi is ranked as the most powerful women in business
five year running, with an annual pay of more than $14.2 million. She is also
ranked sixth on the Forbes world's 100 most Powerful Women. Beginning in
the mid-1990s, Nooyi was the chief Strategist that dramatically reshaped
PepsiCo. The company got out of the restaurant business by selling Pizza Hut,
Taco Bell, and KFC in 1997. It got into the juice business by buying the world's
largest brand juice producer Tropicana in 1998. PepsiCo entered the sports
drink business in 2001 by acquiring the best seller Gatorade, through the
purchase of its maker Quaker Oats, Which also gave Pepsico a line of cereal
and other food products. PepsiCo also acquired lzze sparkling juice drinks in
2006 and Naked juice smoothies and other fruit drinks in 2007.PepsiCo also
joint venture with partners, including Lipton (ice teas) and Starbucks
(frappuccino). Nooyi acquired PepsiCo's two largest bottlers in 2010 to save an
estimated $400 million a year.
Nooyi is a different kind of CEO. She says her approach boils down to
balancing the profit motive with making healthier snacks (in a speech to the
food industry, she pushed the group to tackle obesity), striving for net zero
impact on the environment, and taking care of your workforce. She was one of
the first executive to realize that the health and green movements were not just
fads, and she demanded true innovation. PepsiCo is gradually shifting its
percentage of "better for you" and "good for you" snacks and widening its
product portfolio with whole grains, nuts, and fruits. The company was one of
the first to invest in green capital expenditure for water-and heat-related
conservation project for sustainability. Her mottos "Growth Through
Innovation" and "Performance with Purpose", are both a means of herding the
organization and of presenting PepsiCo globally. Every two weeks she sends emails
to 285,000 staffers about what's on her mind. So far Nooyi has been a
great success at PepsiCo, but cola wars, higher energy costs, and rising
ingredient cost will test her leadership.
What does climbing the corporate leader to CEO of PepsiCo
have to do with contingency leader-ship?
07
What do colleagues say about Indra Nooyi's leadership is it
task or relationship, does she have any future career plans?
07
OR
Q.5 What life, education, and job experiences qualified Indra Nooyi
for her job as CEO?
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Give your comment about traits of Indra Nooyi as a successful
leader and her leadership style
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