Engineering Management (MGTS 403)

Questions of Unit One and Two

1. Discuss how the job of a top manager differs from the jobs in several levels of middle management.
2. Explain the difference between leaders and managers. Discuss the significance and application of
leadership in the modern organization.
3. Who is the Frederick W. Taylor? How did he contribute to management in engineering companies?
4. What do you understand by management by objectives? Describe its advantages and disadvantages.
5. Identify the three types of skills needed by an effective manager and describe how the relative need for
them might vary with the level of management.
6. List and explain various categories of decision-making. Describe how each of them relates to different
lacks of management in the organization.
7. Discuss the significance of Herzberg’s two-factor theory in leady technical people.
8. Describe the contribution of Henri Fayal and Max Weber in administrative management.
9. You have begun a small but growing business what advantages and disadvantages should you considered
before changing it from a sole proprietorship to a corporation.
10. Is it reasonable that managers from backgrounds other than engineering might find delegation easier?
Support your conclusion.
11. What were the positive values of Max weber’s model of “Bureaucracy”?
12. Explain the concepts of delegation of authority.
13. Leadership is the process of getting the corporation of others in accomplished the desired goal. A mix of
perception, compulsion, and example that makes men do what they want to do.
14. There is a trend of high employee turnover in a reputed engineering company. Suppose you are the general
manager of this company and you know employee turnover is a serious problem. What will you do to
reduce employee turnover? Explain your answer with examples.
15. What is management? How management is different from engineering management?
16. Explain the steps of the controlling process. Differentiate among three types of the control system.
17. Distinguish between:
a. Scientific management and Administrative management
b. Vision and Mission statement
c. Planning and Organizing
d. Line Authority and Staff Authority
e. Theory X vs Theory Y
f. Routine decision vs non-routine decision