Assignment Subject: Management Principles

Q.3 Case study Bhatkaav Enterprises is facing huge losses. The owner of the company is an MBA pass out. Even then many things in the organisation are happening which are indicative of lack of proper management in the company. First of all there is no specific sharing of work and any time any employee is asked to do anything. This has lead to wastage of efforts. Further due to negligence in proper work sharing there has been no specialisation development in the nature of the jobs done by the employees. There are no clear and fair agreements between the workers and the management. This has led to a lot of frustration in the workers. Management has quite often been found to be ignorant of not fulfilling promises done by it. There are also no strict rules and regulations binding on the conduct of the workers. The departmental heads who are the middle level managers in the company and hold key positions always favour their relatives. They quite often dont turn up for job on time. They are always looking for special relaxations from the top management. This has led to feeling of resentment among the employees who are also demanding special favours and threatening strike in the coming days. Suresh works in a bulb manufacturing company. Each bulb which is manufactured is of standard size and quality. Further if there is any unrequired type of bulb manufactured then its production is stopped. Last month when the company came to know that 10 watt bulbs were no more liked by customers, their production was stopped. He works in the purchase department. His job is to purchase the filaments required to make bulbs. This time when he purchases the filament he gets the instruction from the seller that some special care needs to be taken in the first hour of fixing the filaments inside the bulb. Suresh knows this information should be given immediately to the production department before the assembling process starts. However he finds that his companys policies only allow him to give the message to his immediate boss who will further pass this message to his boss. The passing of this message will continue till it reaches the desired person in the production department. Question:

(10 2 = 20)

1. Which technique of management is followed here? Also name the principle of management followed here by the company?

2. Which option is now available to Suresh since the company is not allowing him to interact with the concerned worker in the production department ?