Essay Type Questions The ONLY SOURCE TO BE USED: Management Principles A Contemporary Edition For Africa SMIT CRONJE BREVIS VRBA

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Discuss the three main environments that make up the management environment.

Your discussion should include:

All the variables that make up each environment.

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The level of control that the manager has over each environment.

The influences that these environments had on South African managers in the

past 5 years.

10.  Explain the main reasons why people generally resist change  10

Explain the main features of each of the five stages in group and team development.

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Also indicate what the main role of the team or group leader would be during each

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stage.

12.  Discuss five of the characteristics of good corporate governance that were identified

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by the King II report.

Discuss the importance of the organising function in the management process. Refer

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to the necessity of organising to make the other management functions work

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effectively.

Discuss the challenges for management in each of the following features of the ‘new

organisation’:

a.  Operating in a global economy

b.  Virtual organisations

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c.  Flatter and leaner organisational structures

d.  Flexibility

e.  Workforce diversity

Illustrate how the management functions vary between the different  levels of

management in terms of the responsibilities, competencies and roles of managers on

these levels. Use the following format for your illustration:

Top  Middle  Low

Planning

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Organising

Leading