Short Answer Questions :

1. Outline a situational/contingency view of leadership and discuss an example in practice.
2. Outline tacit and explicit organisational knowledge and discuss an example in practice.
3. Outline Argyris and Schon’s (1978) concepts of single loop and double loop learning and discuss an example in practice.
4. Outline the concept of innovation as used in management studies and discuss an example in practice.
5. Explain why, according to DiMaggio and Powell, organisations in particular sectors usually resemble each other.
6. Explain what is meant in the management literature by the terms management ‘fads’ and ‘fashions’.
7. Explain the differences between the use of authority and power in organisations with consideration of the notion of legitimacy.
8. Explain Dawson’s (1996) processual approach to organisational change.