BIDANG pekerjaan masa hari ini semakin sofistikated. Maka tidak hairan kenapa sekiranya program- program pendidikan yang ditawarkan di institusi pengajian tinggi hari ini juga sekarang semakin spesifik sifatnya. Antara program bersifat sedemikian ialah Program Ijazah Sarjana Pengurusan Projek yang ditawarkan di Open University Malaysia (OUM). Program itu merupakan satu-satunya program yang belum ditawarkan di mana-mana institusi pengajian tinggi swasta (IPTS) …

With insights from industry experts to strengthen the course and by offering subjects that are carefully selected to cater to the core of project management, OUM reveals its success formula for the only Master of Project Management programme offered in Malaysia. WITH occupations becoming more specialised over the years, it is no surprise that education programmes have become unique too. …

Question: Is your university lecturer a manager?  Discuss in terms of managerial functions, managerial roles, and skills. According to Theodore Levitt, management consist of the rational assessment of a situation and know what is to be done, strategies to achieve the goal, marshalling of resources, control of the activities and finally motivating the resources to do the work.  According to …

Motivation through Leadership Question: Ms Zee, MBA graduate from OUM, came home to manage her family business upon the death of her father.  She found the morale and productivity of the employees low due much to the autocratic leadership of her father, who built the company from scratch, and his long illness.  Discuss how she could motivate the staff and …

Question: The examination performance of your private secondary school has been declining for the past few years.  Discuss the controlling process to make it a high quality institution. Private secondary schools are defined as independent schools which are not administered by the government, state or federal level and have the right to select their own student.  It is funded by …

Question: Ms Zee, MBA graduate from OUM, came home to manage her family business upon the death of her father.  She found the morale and productivity of the employees low due much to the autocratic leadership of her father, who built the company from scratch, and his long illness.  Discuss how she could motivate the staff and get the company …

Question: Do you think Fiedler’s position power, task structure, or leader-member relations was the most important aspect of Gary Convis’s leadership at the Georgetown plant? The first comprehensive contingency model for leadership was developed by Fred Fiedler which is an expansion of the leadership flexibility theory. The Fiedler contingency model proposes that effective group performance depends on the proper match …

Question: How would you describe Akio Toyoda’s leadership style?  Explain. Akio Toyoda’s leadership style can best be described as a combination of a transformational and entrepreneurial leadership.  Transformational leadership is a leadership that inspires the entire organisation and affects the employee’s belief by gathering their wills and encouraging employees to perform to their leader’s vision.  (Certo & Certo, 2006, pp …

Refer Case Study “Family Feeling Faces Challenges at Smucker’s” in Certo, Modern Management, 10e, pg. 46-47. Question: Does the human relations movement offer any insights for the co-CEOs as they move ahead with their expansion plans?               Human relations movement refers to a group of people who do study and research on the behavior of people at the workplace in groups.  …

Question: Where on the continuum of leadership behavior would you place Yoshi Inaba, and why? In 1938, Lewin and Lippitt proposed classifications of leaders based on how much involvement leaders placed into task and relationship needs. This range of leadership behaviors was expressed along a continuum by Tannenbaum & Schmidt in 1973, ranging from boss-centered to subordinate-centered. The furthest on …