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MAL811S - Management and Leadership - 1st Opp - June 2022 |
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nAmlBIA unlVERSITY
OF SCIEn CE Ano TECHn OLOGY
FACULTYOF COMMERCE, HUMAN SCIENCESAND EDUCATION
DEPARTMENT OF MANAGEMENT
QUALIFICATION: MASTER OF HUMAN RESOURCESMANAGEMENT
QUALIFICATION CODE: 09MHRM
LEVEL: 9
COURSE CODE: MAL811S
COURSE NAME: MANAGEMENT & LEADERSHIP
SESSION: JUNE 2022
DURATION: 3 HOURS
PAPER: THEORY
MARKS: 100
EXAMINER(S)
MODERATOR:
FIRSTOPPORTUNITY EXAMINATION PAPER
Dr. Michael Ochurub
Dr. Moses Waiganjo
Mr Mattie Otto
INSTRUCTIONS
1. Answer all questions.
2. Read all the questions carefully before answering.
3. Marks for each questions are indicated at the end of each question.
4. Please ensure that your writing is legible, neat and presentable.
PERMISSIBLEMATERIALS
1. Examination paper.
THIS QUESTION PAPER CONSISTS OF 3 PAGES (Including this front page)
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QUESTION 1
1.1 Hughes, Ginnett and Curphy (2015) argue that leadership is a process and not a position
because it involves something happening as a result of the interaction between a leader
and followers. Having examined this statement, illustrate your understanding of the
concept leadership and how a leader could engage dynamically in leadership practices.
(15)
1.2 As an expert in management and leadership components, discuss critically what you
would advise the top management of TransNamib Holdings Ltd on how to strengthen
their management practices and behaviours in their daily work to achieve expected
results. Furthermore, explain how you would convince them on what positive outcomes
the improved practices and behaviours would have for TransNamib Holdings Ltd. (15)
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QUESTION 2
2.1 As an HR Practitioner, you are instructed to provide some advice on how employee
engagement, job engagement and organisational engagement could be enhanced
within the organisation to improve organisational effectiveness. Having analysed this
statement, describe critically, what steps should be taken to enhance the latter as a
basis of your advice.
(10)
2.2 Power is a function of a leader, the followers and the situation. Would you agree or
disagree with this statement? Motivate your answer briefly and illustrate it with
relevant examples.
(10)
2.3 Critically analyse and describe the methods used by people to minimize personal moral
responsibility and behavior in a self-protective way. Bandura described it as methods as
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mental gymnastics used by people to dissociate their moral thinking from their actions.
(8)
2.4 Ethical climates refer to those in which ethical standards and norms have been
consistently, clearly, and pervasively communicated throughout the organization and
embraced and enforced by organisational leaders in both word and example (Hughes,
Ginnett & Curphy, 2015). Having analysed this statement, describe how you would
create and sustain ethical climate as well as the role of principle-centred leadership as
part of the process.
(12)
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QUESTION 3
3.1 The most fundamental level of the situation involves the tasks to be performed by
individuals or teams within the organisation. Having assessed this statement, describe
how tasks vary and what importance and relevance it has to leadership.
(8)
3.2 Discussbriefly whether and/or how situation can affect leadership behaviour and what
is meant by situational engineering.
(12)
3.3 Distinguish between five (5) well-known contingency theories of leadership, with
specific focus on their most significant implications for leadership.
(10)
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