Planning — Business Studies STD 12 Commerce — Question

Explain the important activities performed by human resource management.

State any three advantages that a functional structure offers to an organisation.

Ashish is working as a marketing manager in an organization. His subordinate, Ms. Asha, discussed with him certain sales promotion schemes which would result in an increase in sales. However, Ashish is pre-occupied with some other problems of his work. So, he does not respond much and Ms. Asha becomes disappointed.

1. Identify the barrier of communication being referred to here.
2. Explain any two other forms of barriers under the same category.

Explain by giving any three reasons why decentralisation is important in an organisation.

Mrs. Rajlaxmi is working as the Human Resource Consultant in a firm that manufactures cosmetics, which is facing a problem of high employee turnover. The CEO of the company has invited suggestion from her for retaining the talented employees and reducing the employee turnover. Mrs. Rajlaxmi recommends that the good employees be rewarded in a way that it creates a feeling of ownership among the employees and at the same time, makes them contribute towards the growth of the organisation.

1. Identify the incentive and explain its type which has been suggested by Mrs. Rajlaxmi to the CEO of the company.
2. Also explain any two other incentives of the same type.

What is meant by ‘Capital Structure’? Explain any two factors that affect the capital structure of a company.

Explain delegation of authority.

Enumerate any six points of the characteristics of coordination.

Upasana works as a plant superintendent in a carpet making factory. In order to complete the export orders on time, the production manager asks her to make the workers work over time whereas the finance manager is strictly against this practice because it will increase the cost of production. Moreover, Upasana feels that since the company is manufacturing handmade carpets as well as machine made carpets, there is a lot of overlapping of activities. Therefore, there should be two separate divisions for both of them wherein each division should have its own incharge, plans and execution resources.

1. Identify the principle of management which is being violated.
2. Also identify the principle of management that Upasana feels should be implemented in the factory.

‘An effort to control everything may end up in controlling nothing.’ Explain.