Cosmetics Production: Manager

Principles of Management (BAGB1013) CONFIDENTIAL
April 2020 Final Examination
MATRIC NO. : MC200611294
ANSWER BOOKLET
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ANSWER FOR SECTION A: QUESTION 1
a)
I. Functional Departmentalization
MANAGER
HUMAN FINANCE & SALES &

OPERATIONS
RESOURCES ACCOUNTING MARKETING
II. Product Departmentalization
PRODUCTION
COSMETICS
FINANCE
MANAGER
FOOD
MARKETING
PRODUCTS
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b)
(1) There is a propensity towards an excess of centralization, which causes delay in dynamic
and stream of data. Decisions on problems covering two or more functions can be made only at
the higher levels in the organization. Further, the procedure of correspondence of the choice to
the most reduced level and its resulting usage takes a ton of time.
(2) Functional departmentalization will in general make the useful heads such a great amount of
fixated on their individual useful territories that they dismiss the business all in all and its targets.
Consequently, a need emerges for accentuating the crucial the venture to every practical
leader, which devours a decent measure of time. It makes coordination between various
utilitarian regions troublesome.
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ANSWER FOR SECTION A: QUESTION 2
a) Intuitive decision making is where making decisions on the basis of experience, feelings, and
accumulated judgement. Some researchers point to intuition as a purely affective phenomenon
that demonstrates the ability of emotions to influence decision-making without cognitive
mediation. This supports the dual processing theory of affect and cognition, under which
conscious thought is not required for emotions to be experienced, but nevertheless positive
conscious thoughts towards person's will have positive emotional effects on them.
b) THREE (3) different decision-making conditions that managers usually face as they make
decision are (1) CERTAINTY, (2) RISK, and (3) UNCERTAINTY.
(1) CERTAINTY - When the certainty conditions are present, it can be expected by the
managers what is going to happen when a particular decision has been taken by them.
(2) RISK – Conditions in which the decision maker is able to estimate the likelihood of certain
outcomes. Under risk, managers have historical data from past personal experiences or
secondary information that lets them assign probabilities to different alternatives.
(3) UNCERTAINTY – Managers do face decision-making situation of uncertainty. When

information is so poor that managers can't even assign probabilities to the likely outcomes of
alternatives, the manager is making a decision in an uncertain environment. This condition is
the most difficult for a manager. Decision making under conditions of uncertainty is like being a
pioneer entering unexplored territory. Uncertainty forces managers to rely heavily on creativity in
solving problems. It requires unique and often totally innovative alternatives to existing
processes. Under these conditions, the choice of alternative is influenced by the limited amount
of available information and by the psychological orientation of the decision maker.
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ANSWER FOR SECTION A: QUESTION 3.
a) Accept Error - terms during recruitment when a recruiter appoints an individual for a job
profile for which who is not qualified, but is appointed during short-staffed.
b) I. Performance-simulation test – requires the candidates to take part in explicit occupation

practices essential for carrying out the responsibility effectively.
II. Work sampling – Job analysis is used to build up a scaled down copy of the activity on
which a candidate exhibits his/her skills.
c) I. Initial Screening - The determination procedure frequently starts with an underlying

screening of candidates to evacuate people who clearly don't meet the position necessities. At
this stage, a couple of straight forward inquiries are posed. A candidate may clearly be
inadequate to fill the publicized position, yet be very much able to work in other open positions.
The Purpose of Screening is to diminish the quantity of candidates being considered for
determination.
II. Job Interview - An interview is an objective arranged discussion in which the questioner and
candidate trade data. The employment interview is especially significant because the applicants
who reach this stage are considered to be the most promising candidates.
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ANSWER FOR SECTION B: QUESTION 1
a) Nooyi's personality characteristics have added to her activity execution and vocation
successors. She joined PepsiCo in 1994 as head of corporate system and was elevated to
president and CFO before moving into the association's top administration position. Nooyi has
been named one of the most influential women in business and one of the most influential
women on the planet.
b) yes, Nooyi’s journey to become a leader fit to this theory.
I. handling the weight plague by improving the healthful status of PepsiCo items and making
PepsiCo an earth feasible organization.
II. Her vision is long haul and could be hazardous for transient profit, yet it is likewise convenient
and significant.
Initiative might be characterized as the demonstration of affecting others to move in the direction
of an objective. Pioneers exist at all degrees of an association. A few chiefs hold a place of
power and may use the force that originates from their situation, just as their own capacity to
impact others. They are called formal pioneers. Conversely, casual pioneers are without a
proper situation of power inside the association yet show administration by impacting others
through close to home types of intensity. One admonition is significant here: Leaders don't
depend on the utilization of power to impact individuals. Rather, individuals eagerly receive the
pioneer's objective as their own objective. On the off chance that an individual is depending on
power and discipline, the individual is a tyrant, not a pioneer.
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In my opinion Indra Nooyi is a leader. As a pioneer, Indra Nooyi has the basic initiative
characteristics a decent pioneer ought to have, for example, vitality, self-assurance, and
amiability. In any case, as an incredible pioneer and as a female chief of an organization. She
tough on herself and raise the standard for everybody.
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Principles of Management (BAGB1013) CONFIDENTIAL

April 2020 Final Examination

MATRIC NO. : MC200611294

ANSWER FOR SECTION A: QUESTION 1

HUMAN FINANCE & SALES &

II. Product Departmentalization

ANSWER FOR SECTION A: QUESTION 2

(3) UNCERTAINTY – Managers do face decision-making situation of uncertainty. When

ANSWER FOR SECTION A: QUESTION 3.

b) I. Performance-simulation test – requires the candidates to take part in explicit occupation

c) I. Initial Screening - The determination procedure frequently starts with an underlying

ANSWER FOR SECTION B: QUESTION 1

b) yes, Nooyi’s journey to become a leader fit to this theory.

ANSWER FOR SECTION B: QUESTION 2

ANSWER FOR SECTION B: QUESTION 3

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