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Software Project Management Unit 5 – Staffing in Software Projects: AKTU previous year questions

19 AKTU questions from Unit 5 (Staffing in Software Projects) asked in 2022–2025, tagged by marks, year and topic. In short: about 30 marks of every paper come from this unit; the most asked topic is Organizational Behaviour (9 times); 18 questions came back in a later year. The latest ones are listed below; on the page you can filter them by 2-mark or long questions, topic and repeats.

Unit 5 previous year questions

  • Discuss role of leadership in project management. (2 marks, 2025, Communication and Leadership)
  • Explain various stress management techniques used for project staff. (7 marks, 2025, Managing People)
  • Explain the Organizational Behavior approach to software staffing and team dynamics. (7 marks, 2025, Organizational Behaviour)
  • What is the Oldham Hackman model? How does it help in enhancing team performance? (7 marks, 2025, Organizational Behaviour)
  • Explain job enlargement. (2 marks, 2024, Organizational Behaviour)
  • Discuss organizational behavior. (2 marks, 2024, Organizational Behaviour)
  • Explain the Role of organizational behavior in Software Project Management. (10 marks, 2024, Organizational Behaviour)
  • An organization has detected low job satisfaction in the system testing group, computer applications help desk, and computer batch input. Design a model so that these jobs be redesigned to give more job satisfaction. (10 marks, 2024, Organizational Behaviour)
  • Three different mental obstacles to good decision-making were identified in the text: Faulty heuristics, escalation of commitment, and information overload. Formulate steps do you think can be taken to reduce the danger of each of these. (10 marks, 2024, Working in Teams)
  • Explain the best method of staff selection. (2 marks, 2023, Managing People)
  • Discuss role of leadership in project management. (2 marks, 2023, Communication and Leadership)
  • Discuss The Oldham-Hackman job characteristic model. (10 marks, 2023, Organizational Behaviour)

Most asked Unit 5 topics

  • Organizational Behaviour – asked 9 times
  • Managing People – asked 6 times
  • Communication and Leadership – asked 3 times

Unit 5 question pattern

  • 2-mark questions: 7 asked in 2022–2025
  • 7-mark questions: 3 asked in 2022–2025
  • 10-mark questions: 9 asked in 2022–2025
  • About 30 marks from Unit 5 in every paper
  • 18 questions were asked again in a later year

Unit 5 questions year by year

  • 2025: 4 Unit 5 questions asked (23 marks across that year's papers)
  • 2024: 5 Unit 5 questions asked (34 marks across that year's papers)
  • 2023: 5 Unit 5 questions asked (34 marks across that year's papers)
  • 2022: 5 Unit 5 questions asked (34 marks across that year's papers)