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1. COVID-19 pandemic has hit the tourism industry around the world very hard and it is not any different in Bangladesh. Some hotels and resorts were forced to wind up their business. Some resilient ones are trying to find their foothold again after the disruption of more than a year and a half. What sort of competitive strategy should the hotels and resorts adopt to stand out among the competitors? Explain.

2.Work from home can be demotivating for some employees. Evaluate this statement using your understanding of expectancy theory.

3. You work as the supervisor of an IT team (6 members) that serves the Production and Sales Departments in managing the relationships with suppliers and customers. Your team basically handles the Supply Chain Management Systems (SCM) and Customer Relationship Management Systems (CRM). The business managers ask for different insights and your analysts assemble the data and find the required pattern from the data. The role of your team, therefore, is to support the business managers by providing relevant information for better business decision making and to trouble shoot in time of need. Your team members are highly qualified even though two of them are fairly inexperienced. The job has some novelty in the sense that the requirements of the managers vary according to the shifts in the market and supplier and customer demands. But there is a seasonality in the demand, and you worry that your analysts may become bored doing the same analysis every year. Which type of leadership you should practice in this situation according to the path-goal theory to keep your team members engaged? Explain.

4.How should NSU prepare for campus reopening in Fall 2021? Explain using your knowledge of all the three types of control.