NATIONAL OPEN UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA

UNIVERSITY VILLAGE, PLOT 91, CASDASTRAL ZONE, NNAMDI AZIKIWE EXPRESS WAY, JABI, ABUJA.
FACULTY OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCES
JANUARY 2021 EXAMINATION

Course Code: BUS 424

Course Title: Organizational Theory

Credit Unit: 2

Instructions: 1. Indicate your Matriculation Number clearly 2. Attempt Question 1 and any other two (2) questions 3. Question 1 is compulsory and carries 30marks while the other 2 questions carry 20marks each 4. Present all your points in coherent and orderly manner

Time Allowed: 2 Hours

1a. Describe an organization and briefly enumerate the main characteristics of an organisation. 10 Marks

b. How will you classify organisations? 10 Mark

c. Discuss the main managerial problems of each type of organisation identified by Blau and Scott. 10 marks

2a. Discuss the functions of management and organisation theory 10 Marks

b. What are the principal characteristics of classical-mechanistic organizations? 10 Marks

3a. What is bureaucracy and how does it contribute to organisational efficiency? 10 Marks

b. Briefly state the characteristics of bureaucracy and the contributions of Max Weber to organisation theory. 10 Marks

4a. State and explain Henry Fayols’s principles of organizational management. 10 Marks

b. List and explain the Principles of effective Organisations by Lyndal Urwick. 10 Marks