SRI RAMANUJAR ENGINEERING COLLEGE

DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING

MG8591 PRINCIPLE OF MANAGEMENT

PART A (10 x 2 = 20 Marks)

1. What are the sources of recruitment?

2. Why is informal organization needed?

People join informal groups because of common interests, social needs, or simply friendship.
Informal groups typically develop their own norms and roles and establish unwritten rules for
their members.

3. What is staffing.
The definition of staffing is to find employees who understand your goals. The staffing process
involves locating, selecting, hiring and maintaining a professional relationship with potential
and current workers.
4. Define organization.
An organization is a group of people with a defined relationship in which they work together to
achieve the goals of that organization.

5. Define decentralization.

Decentralisation is referred to as a form of an organisational structure where there is the

delegation of authority by the top management to the middle and lower levels of management in
an organisation.

6. List out the characteristics of organizing.

7. What is meant by performance apraisal.

8. What do you understand by organizing chart.

An organizational chart shows the internal structure of an organization or company. The
employees and positions are represented by boxes or other shapes, sometimes including photos,
contact information, email and page links, icons and illustrations. Straight or elbowed lines link
the levels together.

9. What are the principles of organizing structure.

The key principle of an organizational structure is how authority is passed down and around the
company. Understanding what everyone's roles and responsibilities are helps to create
accountability for individuals, teams and departments

Managers must make choices about how to group people together to perform their work. Five
common approaches — functional, divisional, matrix, team, and networking—help managers
determine departmental groupings (grouping of positions into departments).

10. Define departmentation.

Departmentalization is an organizational structure that separates people into groups, or
departments, based on a particular set of criteria. These departments have their own leadership
and work together to complete