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Seat No.: Enrolment
GUJARAT TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY
MBA (PART TIME)- SEMESTER EXAMINATION WINTER- 2018
Subject Code: 4519903 Date:28/12/ 2018
Subject Name: Organization Behavior
Time: 10:30AM TO 01:30PM Total Marks: 70
Instructions:
1. Attempt all questions.
2. Make suitable assumptions wherever necessary.
3. Figures to the right indicate full marks.

Q.1 Explain the following terms: (Each Carry 02 Marks) 14
Organization
(2)Management
(3)Leader
(4)Leadership
(5)Anthropology
Perception
Politics
Q.2 Discuss Model of OB in detail. 07
Q.2 Discuss Functions of Management in detail. 07
OR
Q.2 Discuss How Attitude of an Individual Impact at Work place in detail. 07
Q.3 Explain Two factor theory of motivation in detail. 07
Q.3 Write a detailed note on Sources of Stress. 07
OR
Q.3 Discuss Personality and Big 5 model. 07
Q.3 Discuss shortcuts of judging others and perception. 07
Q.4 Study the case and give answer for the questions:
A Big Step for Peak Electronics
Lynda Murray, chief executive officer of Peak Electronics, faced a difficult decision. Her
company was a leader in making parts for standard cassette and reel-to-reel tape recorders.
Murray had watched with some misgivings as digital technology hit the market in the form of
compact disc players, and she had to decide whether to lead Peak into the digital age. Even
though digital tape players were encountering legal hurdles in the American market, they were
starting to take hold in Japan and Europe. Was America—and Peak—ready for them?
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Murray had plenty of help in making the decision. First she met with the company's marketing
division. Everyone had an opinion. Some predicted that every audio component would be
digital by the turn of the century; others believed the popularity of even compact disc players
was already waning. Everyone agreed that they needed time to conduct surveys, gather data,
and find out what products the public really wanted and how much they would be willing to
pay for them.
The people in research and development had a different approach. They were tired of making
small improvements in a mature and perfected product. They had been reading technical
material about digital tape, and they saw it as an exciting new technology that would give an
innovative company a chance to make it big. Time was of the essence, they insisted. If Peak
was to become an important supplier of parts for the new decks, it had to have the components
ready. Delay would be fatal to the product.
A meeting of the vice presidents produced a scenario with which Murray was all too familiar.
Years ago these executives had discovered that they could not outargue one another in these
meetings, but they had faith in their staffs' abilities to succeed where they had failed. Before
Murray even walked into the room, she knew what their recommendation would be: to create a
committee of representatives from each division and let them thoroughly investigate all aspects
of the decision. Such an approach had worked before, but Murray was not sure it was right this
time.
Desperate to make the decision and get it out of her mind, Murray mentioned it to her fifteenyear-
old son, who, it turned out, knew everything about digital tape. In fact, he told her, one of
his friend—the rich one—had been holding off on buying a new tape deck so that he would be
on the cutting edge of digital recording. "It's gotta happen, Mom," her son said. "People want
it."
Intellectually, Murray believed he was right. The past thirty years had shown that Americans
had an insatiable appetite for electronic gadgets and marvels. Quadraphonic sound and video
discs were the only exceptions she could think of to the rule that if someone invented an
improved way of reproducing images or sound, someone else would want to buy it.
But intuitively, Murray was not so sure. She had a bad feeling about the new technology. She
believed the record companies, which had lost the battle to tape manufacturers, might get
together with compact disc makers and audio equipment manufacturers to stop the digital
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technology from entering the American market. So far, no American company had invested
substantially in the technology, so no one had an interest in funding the legal battle to remove
the barriers to the new machines.
Exhausted, Murray went to bed. She hoped that somehow her subconscious mind would sort
out all the important factors and she would wake up knowing the right decision.
Q.4 What sources of information and opinion about the new technology seem most
reliable? Which would you ignore? 07
Q.4 Being trouble shooter how will you handle negotiation? . 07
OR
Q.4 If you were Murray, what would your next step be? 07
Q.4 Discuss Negotiation process for Murray. . 07
Q.5 Study the case and give answer for the questions:
Surviving Plant World's Hard Times
In ten years, Plant World had grown from a one-person venture into the largest nursery and
landscaping business in its area. Its founder, Myta Ong, combined a lifelong interest in plants
with a botany degree to provide a unique customer service. Ong had managed the company's
growth so that even with twenty full-time employees working in six to eight crews, the
organization culture was still as open, friendly, and personal as it had been when her only
"employees" were friends who would volunteer to help her move a heavy tree.
To maintain that atmosphere, Ong involved herself increasingly with people and less with
plants as the company grew. With hundreds of customers and scores of jobs at any one time,
she could no longer say without hesitation whether she had a dozen arborvitae bushes in stock
or when Mrs. Carnack's estate would need a new load of bark mulch. But she knew when Rose
had been up all night with her baby, when Gary was likely to be late because he had driven to
see his sick father over the weekend, and how to deal with Ellen when she was depressed
because of her boyfriend's behavior. She kept track of the birthdays of every employee and
even those of their children. She was up every morning by five-thirty arranging schedules so
that John could get his son out of daycare at four o'clock and Martina could be back in town
for her afternoon high school equivalency classes.
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Paying all this attention to employees may have led Ong to make a single bad business
decision that almost destroyed the company. She provided extensive landscaping to a new mall
on credit, and when the mall never opened and its owners went bankrupt, Plant World found
itself in deep trouble. The company had virtually no cash and had to pay off the bills for the
mall plants, most of which were not even salvageable.
One Friday, Ong called a meeting with her employees and leveled with them: either they
would not get paid for a month or Plant World would fold. The news hit the employees hard.
Many counted on the Friday paycheck to buy groceries for the week. The local unemployment
rate was low, however, and they knew they could find other jobs.
But as they looked around, they wondered whether they could ever find this kind of job. Sure,
the pay was not the greatest, but the tears in the eyes of some workers were not over pay or
personal hardship; they were for Ong, her dream, and her difficulties. They never thought of
her as the boss or called her anything but "Myta." And leaving the group would not be just a
matter of saying good-bye to fellow employees. If Bernice left, the company softball team
would lose its best pitcher, and the Sunday game was the height of everyone's week. Where
else would they find people who spent much of the weekend working on the best puns with
which to assail one another on Monday morning? At how many offices would everyone show
up twenty minutes before starting time just to catch up with friends on other crews? What other
boss would really understand when you simply said, "I don't have a doctor's appointment, I
just need the afternoon off"?
Ong gave her employees the weekend to think over their decision: whether to take their pay
and look for another job or to dig into their savings and go on working. Knowing it would be
hard for them to quit, she told them they did not have to face her on Monday; if they did not
show up, she would send them their checks. But when she arrived at seven-forty Monday
morning, she found the entire group already there, ready to work even harder to pull the
company through. They were even trying to top one another with puns about being "mallcontents."
Q.5 How would you describe the organization culture at Plant World? 07
Q.5 Do you think culture is barrier in organization? Why? 07
OR
Q.5 How large can such a company get before it needs to change its culture and structure?
07
Q.5 Being HR manager Suggest Culture for organization in above situation. 07