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Assignment - A
Question 1. What is your understanding of Johari Window? What is the major
difference between blind and hidden area, how does it facilitates a manager in
his/her organizational life?
Answer: A Johari window is a cognitive psychological tool created by Joseph Luft and Harry
Ingham in 1955 in the United States, used to help people better understand their interpersonal
communication and relationships. It is used primarily in self-help groups and corporate
settings as a heuristic exercise.
Question 2. How will you us the concept of Transactional Analysis for removing
dysfunctional behavior in your organization? Substantiate your answer with
suitable illustration.
Question 3. What is stress? Is it always bad for the individual? Explain the nature,
mechanism and classification of stress.
Question 4. In our culture, do you think the traditional or the behavioral approach to
conflict management is most frequently taken by the managers? Give the
plausible reasons for your projected answer?
Question 5. Apply the concepts of activities, interactions, and sentiments to the group in
which you have been a member either in academic setting or in a work setting
and describe the events. Describe for each concept the required and emergent
behavior in that situation.
Assignment - B
Question 1. Describe your own pattern of needs and discuss the kind of work
environment that will be most satisfying to you in terms of fulfilling your needs
from the any theory of work motivation
Question 2. Explain the concept of perceptual defence. What are most common
perceptual errors that you make? How does it operate? How can we reduce it?
Question 3.. What is risky shift? Give an example of the operation of the phenomena in
any situation that you are aware of, have been exposed to. Describe: A, the
norms in any of your class project groups in which you have been identified, B.
the extent of the cohesion in the group and the reasons therefore.
Case Study
Question 1.. Why is there such conflict between these groups?
Assignment - C
1. The Hawthorne experiment was started by:
a) Kurt Lewin
b) B.F.Skinner
c) Elton Mayo
d) W.Dickson
11. The motives which are unlearned but not physiologically based are called:
a) Prime Motives
b) Secondary Motives
c) General Motives
d) None
13. Rorchach is a:
a) Personality inventory
b) Projective technique
c) Situational test
d) Group test
31. Which of the following is more relevant in determining ability of individuals to remember
communication over time:
a) Non-verbal communication
b) Feedback
c) Presentation
d) None
33. Which of the is communication networks is more effective vis-à-vis speed and accuracy
of performance:
a) Circle
b) Wheel
c) Diagonal
d) None
39. provided five OD steps comprising diagnosis, strategy planning, education, consulting
and training and evaluation:
a) Blake and Mouton
b) Lippitt
c) White
d) Beckhard