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ASSIGNMENT
Course Code : MS-03
Course Title : Economic and
Social Environment
Assignment Code :
MS-03/TMA/SEM-II/2016
Coverage : All Blocks
Note: Attempt all the questions and submit this assignment
on or before 31st October, 2016 to the coordinator of your study centre.
1. Discuss socio-cultural
environment of business and its importance to business giving examples.
2. What are the objectives of
public sector and how far these objectives have been achieved? Critically
analyse.
3. What reforms have taken
place in the small scale sector and what is their contribution? Discuss with
examples.
4. In what way trade policy
reforms contribute to enhancing India’s competitiveness in the International
Market? Explain in detail.
5. Discuss in detail various
measures involved in the process of privatisation.
6. “Neglect of agriculture is
the major sin of economic reforms.” Examine the statement in detail.
ASSIGNMENT
Course Code : MS - 2
Course Title : Management of
Human Resources
Assignement Code : MS-2
/TMA/SEM - II/2016
Coverage : All Blocks
Note: Attempt all the questions and submit this assignment
on or before 31st October, 2016 to the coordinator of your study center.
1.
Explain the process of human resource planning. Describe how HR forecast is
carried out in the organisation you are working with or an organisation you are
familiar with.
2.
Discuss the concept of ‘competency mapping’. Explain any two methods of competency
mapping that you are familiar with citing suitable organisational examples.
3.
Define training and distinguish it from learning. Assume you are responsible
for training of employees in a large organisation. Discuss how you will make
training a strategic function. Illustrate.
4. Discuss the motivational
aspects of reward system in an organisation. Analyse the recent trends in
reward system in Indian organisations and suggest measures to improve.
ASSIGNMENT
Course Code : MS-01
Course Title : Management
Functions and Behavior
Assignment Code :
MS-01/TMA/SEM-II/2016
Coverage : All Blocks
Note: Attempt all the questions and submit this assignment
on or before 31st October, 2016 to the coordinator of your study centre.
1. Planning and controlling go
hand in hand. There can be no control without a plan and plans cannot be
successfully implemented in the absence of controls. Controls provide a means
of checking the progress of the plans and correcting any deviations that may
occur along the way.”
Elaborate this statement and
discuss the underlying concept referring to the experience you have in
organizations you have worked in or familiar with. Briefly describe the
organization, you are referring to.
2. What are various models of
Decision making? Briefly discuss. Referring to your prior experience, discuss
what model has been prevalent in the organization/s you have worked for or
familiar with. Briefly describe the organizations you are referring to.
3. Discuss some of the
syndromes of organizational maladjustment. Relate them with the experience you
have had in the organizations you have worked for or familiar with. Briefly
describe the organizations you are referring to.
4. What are the characteristics
of effective work groups and role of a manager in managing group productivity?
Substantiate the response with
your organizational experience or the ones you are aware of. Briefly describe
the organization you are referring to.
ASSIGNMENT
Course Code : MFP – 5
Course Title : Professionals
in Financial Markets Practice
Assignment Code : MFP -
5/TMA/SEM-II/2016
Assignment Coverage : All
Blocks
Note: Attempt all the questions and submit this assignment
on or before 31st October, 2016 to the Coordinator of your study centre.
1. What is a Brokerage House?
Describe the different types of brokerage houses. Meet a Broker of your choice
and discuss the various activities undertaken by a Broker.
2. Explain ‘Due-diligence’ and
the benefits accruing from a well conceived and effectively executed
due-diligence process. Describe the different documents that are required for
financial and accounting due-diligence.
3. Define Venture Capital
Undertaking. What are the activities undertaken by a venture capitalist in the
whole investment process right from receiving a reference to exiting from the
Venture Capital Undertaking?
4. Explain the term ‘Money
Laundering’. Discuss the process of Money Laundering. What are the avenues
which have been recently tried by Money Launders?
5. What are the qualities of a
good equity Research Firm? Discuss the rules and regulations enforced by SEBI
on these firms.
Course Code : MFP – 4
Course Title : Currency and Debt Markets
Assignment Code : MFP - 4/TMA/SEM-II/2016
Assignment Coverage : All Blocks
Note: Attempt all the questions and submit this assignment
on or before 31st October, 2016 to the coordinator of your study centre.
1. Briefly explain the structure of the currency markets in
India. Explain the difference between exchange traded and OTC derivatives
market. Explain the meaning of derivatives and discuss the major currency
derivative products that are traded.
2. (a) What are currency swaps? Explain how is it used to
reduce cost of borrowings?
(b) What are Forward Rate Agreements (FRAs)? Explain how
FRAs can be used to
hedge currency risk
3. Explain the following
(a) Put Call Parity
(b) Delta Hedging
4. Explain the structure of the Indian Debt Market and
briefly discuss the various instruments that are traded in the debt market in
India.
5. (a) What is meant by 'Duration' of a bond? How is the
duration and modified
Duration of a bond calculated
(b) What are 'Interest Rate Futures’? Explain the process of
pricing of interest rate
futures.
ASSIGNMENT
Course Code : MS-04
Course Title : Accounting and Finance for Managers
Assignment Code : MS-04/TMA/SEM-II/2016
Coverage : All Blocks
Note: Attempt all the questions and submit this assignment
on or before 31st October, 2016 to the Coordinator of your study centre.
1. Take an organization of your choice & find out how
the Accounting Reports are prepared by them and how these reports are useful
for managers while making decisions relating to the activities of a Business.
2. Prepare the Cash Flow Statement for XYZ Ltd. for the year
2015-16 and analyze its cash flow position.
Balance sheet of XYZ Ltd. on 31st March
Liabilities & Equity
2016
(Rs. in Lakh)
2015
(Rs. in Lakh)
Equity Share Capital
Reserves & Surplus
P & L Balance
L. T borrowings
Current Liabilities
Provision for taxation
Proposed Dividends
1100
400
270
600
270
240
110
1000
200
250
500
200
150
100
Total
2990
2400
Assets
Gross Fixed Assets
Less: Accumulated Dep.
Net Fixed Assets
Long-term Investments
Inventories
1500
780
720
500
380
1200
600
600
400
200
Debtors
Cash and Bank Balance
Loans and Advances
240
100
1050
160
60
980
Total
2990
2400
P & L Accounts for the year 2006-07 (as on 31st March,
2016)
Income
(Rs. In lakh)
Sales
Other income
Stock Adjustment
2520
304
36
Total
2860
Expenditure
Raw Material Consumed
Manufacturing expenses
Administrative expenses
Selling & distribution expenses
Depreciation
Interest
1430
280
160
130
180
110
Total
2290
Profit before tax (PBT)
Provision for Taxes
Profit after tax (PAT)
P & L at the beginning of the year
Profit available for appropriation
Transfer to reserves
Proposed dividends (incl. div. tax)
Balance profit carried to B/S
570
240
330
250
580
200
100
270
The following additional information has been provided
regarding the firm:
(i) Current liabilities denote amount that is payable to
suppliers.
(ii) Raw materials constitute 80% of the inventory balance
of the firm.
(iii)Loans and advance include income tax paid Rs. 240 lakh
(previous year Rs. 150 lakh)
(iv) During 2015-16 10 lakh of equity shares of Rs. 10 each
were issued at par. Long-term loans raised during the year amounted to Rs. 160
lakh.
(v) The interest shown in the P&L account has actually
been paid for in cash and other income is realized in cash.
3. With the help of a suitable illustration, explain how the
costs and volume influence profit of a business.
4. A Company is considering to replace an existing machine
for which two suppliers have given quotation. Supplier A has proposed a machine
costing Rs. 180 lakh that uses the existing boiler while supplier B has quoted
for the machine Rs. 110 lakh but that requires modification in the existing
energy supply system costing Rs. 30 lakh. The machines have a life of 10 years
and can be sold for 5% and 10% of the original cost respectively for Suppliers
A and B. The additional working capital requirement expressed as % of revenue
are 20% and 25% respectively because of larger requirement of fuel for the
machine from Supplier B. The details are condensed below:
(Rs. in lakh)
Supplier A
Supplier B
Price of machine
Annual Cash flows
Revenue
Operating cost
Working capital (% of revenue)
Salvage value % of cost
180
200
150
20%
20%
135
205
155
25%
5%
The firm charges depreciation on SLM basis with zero book
value and has a tax rate of 35% for all kinds of income. The cost of capital
for the firm is 12%
Which of the suppliers should the company prefer?
(a) as per NPV rule
(b) as per IRR rule.
5. How would you judge the efficiency of the management of
working
ASSIGNMENT
Course Code : MS-05
Course Title : Management of
Machines and Materials
Assignment Code :
MS-05/TMA/SEM-II/2016
Coverage : All Blocks
Note: Attempt all the questions and submit this assignment
on or before 31st October, 2016 to the coordinator of your study centre.
1.
There are many stages involved in bringing a new output to the market. Why
can’t the stages be performed in smooth sequence.
2.
What do you understand by work study, method study and work measurement?
Highlight the basis steps involved.
3.
What is batch production? Under which circumstances it is used? Discuss some
features of batch production.
4.
Briefly discuss the terms:-
1)
Acceptance Sampling
2)
Process Control Charts
5. Discuss some of the
important and frequently used systems for Stores Accounting.
ASSIGNMENT
Course Code : MS - 06
Course Title : Marketing for
Managers
Assignment Code :
MS-06/TMA/SEM - II/2016
Coverage : All Blocks
Note : Attempt all the questions and submit this assignment
on or before 31st October, 2016 to the coordinator of your study centre.
1. (a) What do you understand
by the term “Marketing”? Discuss the scope and importance of marketing function
in the current Indian Business Environment.
(b) Effective Marketing is the
result of proper blending of marketing mix elements. Elaborate the above
statement with two suitable examples by taking one each from an FMCG and a
consumer durable product/Brand of your choice.
2. (a) What are the major
reason that marketers undertake segmenting their markets periodically? Explain
with suitable example of your choice.
(b) Explain briefly the concept
of Product Life Cycle (PLC). To what extent monitoring PLC helps enable in
accomplishing the marketing objectives of the firm in the following situations:
i) Mobile Hand Set .
ii) Fresh fruit juice.
3. (a) As a Manager, briefly
discuss the various considerations involved in the design of marketing
organization in the following scenario:
i) Large scale cement
manufacturing company
ii) North based woolen garments
manufacturer.
(b) Discuss the key steps
involved in the selling process. Explain with a suitable example.
4. (a) What is Marketing
Research? How do the outcome/results of research help in decision making
process? Elaborate by taking an example.
(b) Briefly
explain how marketing research helps in New Product Development
process/strategy. Discuss the key steps that you would consider in
ASSIGNMENT
Course Code : MS - 07
Course Title : Information Systems for Managers
Assignment Code : MS-07/TMA/SEM - II/2016
Coverage : All Blocks
Note : Attempt all the questions and submit this assignment
on or before 31st October, 2016 to the coordinator of your study centre.
1. Describe the management functions at various levels in
the context of relationships between management and information needs.
2. Describe the role of transaction processing system in
management functions. Briefly mention the subsystems of operations management.
3. How do Information systems contribute the Total Quality
Management (TQM)? Justify your answer with examples.
4. Why is data mining being put to use in more and more
businesses? Also, briefly mention some popular data mining techniques. .
5. Write short notes on:
a) Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP) & File Transfer
Protocol (FTP)
b) Business software solutions provided by Microsoft
c) Features of JAVA
ASSIGNMENT
Course Code : MS - 8
Course Title : Quantitative Analysis for Managerial
Applications
Assignment Code : MS-8/ TMA /SEM - II /2016
Coverage : All Blocks
Note: Attempt all the questions and submit this assignment
on or before 31st October, 2016 to the coordinator of your study centre.
1. Explain the Gauss – Jordan Method for solving a system of
linear simultaneous equation with the help of an example.
2. Coefficients of variation of two series are 75 percent
and 90 percent, with standard deviations 15 and 18, respectively. a) Obtain the
mean of the two series, b) Also comment which of the two is better represented
by its mean.
3. Bottled sweet milk stored in a godown is reported to have
gone sour. A test check revealed that milk in 25 percent of the bottles is
unfit for consumption. The salesman at a retail outlet offers 5 bottles for
sale on demand, find the probability that milk will be unfit for consumption a)
exactly in 2 bottles, b) at least in 2 bottles, and c) at the most in 2
bottles.
4. A sample survey of tax-payers belonging to business class
and professional class yielded the following results:
Business class
Professional class
Sample size
Defaulters in tax payment
Test the hypothesis at á = 0.01 level of significance that
defaulter rate is the same for the
two classes of tax-payers.
5. Write short notes on:
i) Mixed Auto-regressive moving average models
ii) Least Squares Criterion
iii) Rank Correlation.
ASSIGNMENT
Course Code : MS-9
Course Title : Managerial Economics
Assignment Code : MS-9/TMA/SEM-II/2016
Coverage : All Blocks
Note: Attempt all the questions and submit this assignment
on or before 31st October, 2016 to the coordinator of your study centre.
1. Describe Incremental Cost. Differentiate between
Incremental Cost and Equi- Marginal Principle. Explain how does consumer
maximize utility with the help of Equi-Marginal Principle?
2. A firm’s demand function is given as P=32-6Q and the
average cost function as AC=Q2 – 7.5Q+50+2/Q. Calculate the level of output Q
which:-
a) maximizes total revenue
b) maximizes profits
3. Discuss Long- Run Cost Functions. Why long run cost curve
is called a planning curve and explain how does it help in future decision
making process?
4. Why is there a kink in the market demand curve of
oligopolists? Explain price rigidity of the Kinked Demand Curve.
5. Briefly describe the characteristics of perfect
competition, monopoly, monopolistic competition, and oligopoly markets.
Identify any four products one each from these markets.
6. Write short notes on the following:-
a) Direct and Indirect Costs
b) Price Leadership
c) Peak Load Pricing
ASSIGNMENT
Course Code : MS - 10
Course Title :
Organisational Design, Development & Change
Assignment Code :
MS-10/TMA/SEM-II/2016
Coverage : All Blocks
Note : Attempt all the questions and submit this assignment
on or before 31st October, 2016 to the coordinator of your study center.
1.
Describe how organisation acts as a system. Explain with the help of examples.
2.
Explain the universal perspectives on organisational design citing suitable
organisational examples.
3.
Explain the contemporary approaches to job design with the help of examples.
4. Discuss the process and
significant dimensions of institution building with illustration.
ASSIGNMENT
Course Code : MS - 11
Course Title : Strategic
Management
Assignment Code :
MS-11/TMA/SEM - II/2016
Coverage : All Blocks
Note: Attempt all the questions and submit this assignment
on or before 31st October, 2016 to the coordinator of your study centre.
1. What do you understand by a
‘Mission Statement’? Can there be a strategy without a mission statement?
Justify giving examples.
2. What determines the
intensity of competition as per Porter’s Model? Identify the hey strategic
factors of the firm you are acquainted with, in its external environment.
3. Describe corporate culture.
Do you think that a corporate culture can be changed? Justify your answer with
the help of suitable examples.
4. Explain with the help of
relevant examples expansion through integration.
5. Suppose you are a Manager
(Strategy). Try to develop a model for evaluation and control process of your
organization.
ASSIGNMENT
Course Code : MS - 25
Course Title : Managing
Change in Organisations
Assignment Code :
MS-25/TMA/SEM - II/2016
Coverage : All Blocks
Note: Attempt all the questions and submit this assignment
on or before 31st October, 2016 to the coordinator of your study centre.
1. Discuss the concept of planned
organisation change with the help of organisational examples.
2. Explain different reasons
and techniques of process based change citing examples.
3. Describe the model as a
diagnostic guide and its key features with the help of examples.
4. Enlist the key skills in
managing organisational change citing examples.
ASSIGNMENT
Course Code : MS - 26
Course Title :
Organisational Dynamics
Assignment Code :
MS-26/TMA/SEM - II/2016
Coverage : All Blocks
Note: Attempt all the questions and submit this assignment
on or before 31st October, 2016 to the coordinator of your study centre.
1. Why do groups get formed?
What are the stages of group development in an organizational situation?
Relate the process with your
organizational experience or the ones you are aware of. Briefly describe the
organization and the situation you are referring to.
2. What is Stress? What is the
concept and stages of Burnout? Describe the concepts relating to your
organizational experience or the ones you are aware of. Briefly describe the
organization and the situations you are referring to.
3. Explain the concept of self
empowerment, and Power enhancers of leaders in organizational set ups.
Explain power enhancers with
examples you are aware of. Describe the context and the organization you are
referring to.
4. Briefly describe the forms
of strategic alliances. Also describe briefly the tenets of strategic
alliances.
Draw from
your experience or knowledge referring to the operational aspects of strategic
alliances and critically analyse the reasons what makes or mars strategic
alliances in organizational setups.
ASSIGNMENT Course Code : MS
- 27 Course Title : Wage and Salary Administration Assignment Code :
MS-27/TMA/SEM - II/2016 Coverage : All Blocks Note : Attempt all the questions and submit this assignment
on or before 31st October, 2016 to the coordinator of your study centre.
1. Explain the concept and
structure of compensation. Describe the functions and responsibilities of
compensation programme of an organization you are familiar with.
2. Explain the purpose and
application of the payment of wages Act, 1936. Describe the concept of
deduction from wages and limits on the total amount of deduction can the fine
be deducted from wages of an employed persons? If so, subject to what
conditions.
3. What do you understand by
the concept of wages, explain the concept of basic wage through examples. Why
dearness is allowance an integral part of pay packet, explain how is it
administered?
4. Define “incentives”. Bring
out their advantages and limitations. Explain the various individual and group
incentive plans and their respective merits and demerits.
5. Describe the tax planning
for employee compensation in any organization you are familiar with. Explain
the tax implications of employee compensation package to the employer and
employees.
ASSIGNMENT
Course Code : MS - 28
Course Title : Labour Laws
Assignment Code : MS-28/TMA/SEM - II/2016
Coverage : All Blocks
Note : Attempt all the questions and submit this assignment
on or before 31st October, 2016 to the coordinator of your study centre.
1. Explain the concept of social justice in relation to
industrial jurisprudence. Describe the influence of ILO Conventions and Recommendations
on Labour Legislation in India.
2. Describe the scope and coverage of the Mines Act, 1952.
Discuss the enforcement of the Act and the provisions regarding working hours
and limitation of employment under the Act.
3. Define object, scope and coverage of the Industrial
Employment (standing orders) Act, 1946. What are the Acts or Omissions on the
part of a workman which amount to misconduct under the Act?
4. Distinguish between Minimum, Fair and Living wages.
Explain the powers which the government can exercise under the minimum wages
Act, 1948. Describe the objective of the minimum wages Act. To what extent do
you think this objective has been attained?
5. What is the object of the Employee provident Funds and
Miscellaneous provisions Act, 1952? Explain the various modes in which the
Central Provident Fund Commissioner can recover arrears of any amount due from
any employer under section 8 of the Act?
ASSIGNMENT
Course Code : MS - 29
Course Title : International
Human Resource Management
Assignment Code :
MS-29/TMA/SEM - II/2016
Coverage : All Blocks
Note: Attempt all the questions and submit this assignment
on or before 31st October, 2016 to the coordinator of your study centre.
1) Enumerate different
approaches to organisational structures in MNCs. Discuss different modes of
operation in MNCs citing suitable examples.
2) What are different
approaches to staffing function in MNCs. Describe different staffing methods
adopted by MNCs with the help of relevant organisational examples
3) Compare and contrast
leadership style followed in Japanese and French firms citing suitable
examples.
4) Explain the role of HR
managers in mergers and acquisitions in international perspective. Discuss the
issues and concerns arising out of these citing examples.
ASSIGNMENT
Course Code : MS - 55
Course Title : Logistics and
Supply Chain Management
Assignment Code : MS-55/
TMA/SEM - II /2016
Coverage : All Blocks
Note: Attempt all the questions and submit this assignment
on or before 31st October, 2016 to the coordinator of your study centre.
1.
Every organization has to move materials to support its operations. Take the
case of a poultry that deals in eggs, meat products and a range of related
goods. What materials are moved in this case?
2.
An integrated supply chain is a convenient notion, but it does not reflect real
operations. An organization is only really concerned with its own customers and
suppliers, and does not have time to consider other organizations further along
the chain. Do you think that this is true?
3.
Give various supply chain information categories. Give examples of information
contained in these categories with reference to a FMCG company.
4.
Managers can be tempted to use the easiest measures of performance, or those
that show themselves in the best light. What are the consequences of this? Can
you give examples of problem this create?
5. Take the example of a
nationalized bank and discuss how it is cutting costs and improving customer
service by changing its supply chain from brick and mortar branches to ATM’s
and phone & net-banking.
ASSIGNMENT
Course Code : MS - 56
Course Title : Materials
Management
Assignment Code : MS-56/
TMA/SEM - II /2016
Coverage : All Blocks
Note: Attempt all the questions and submit this assignment
on or before 31st October, 2016 to the coordinator of your study centre.
1.
What is the need of implementing materials management quality improvement
process? How does TQM support in creating customer value in materials
management?
2.
“Ethical conduct in purchasing depends, to a large extent, on the local culture
to which the purchasing agents and suppliers belong”. Comment!
3.
Discuss the various types of inventory carried by a manufacturing organization.
In what types of inventories can the EOQ and order level polices be used, and
in what types of inventories will the use of MRP be more effective?
4.
What do you understand by the term codification? What type of information
should be built into a code? What are the objectives of codification? List the
different systems used to codify materials.
5. Explain how a performance
appraisal system can be used in the context of materials management. What are
the metrics of performance appraisal in materials management?
ASSIGNMENT
Course Code : MS-57
Course Title : Maintenance
Management
Assignment Code :
MS-57/TMA/SEM-II/2016
Coverage : All Blocks
Note: Attempt all the questions and submit this assignment
on or before 31st October, 2016 to the coordinator of your study centre.
1. What is reliability centred
maintenance? What are the important steps involved in implementing it in any
plant?
2. What is the importance of
maintenance budgeting? Give the advantage of Zero Based Budget.
3. A remote control unit has 25
components in series. Each component has a reliability of 0.999. What is the
reliability of the remote control unit? If it is desired to have a reliability
of 0.996 for 3000 hours of operation, what should be the failure rate of each
component? Assume that the time to failure for each component is exponentially
distributed.
4. Define hazard rate the
discuss the three periods or regions of the life cycle of a unit or device as
illustrated by the ‘bath-tub’ curve.
5. How can be questionnaire for
‘Maintenance Audit’ prepared? What is the main difference of audition result
areas compared to auditing management processes?
ASSIGNMENT
Course Code : MS-58
Course Title : Management of R&D and Innovation
Assignment Code : MS-58/TMA/SEM-II/2016
Coverage : All Blocks
Note: Attempt all the questions and submit this assignment
on or before 31st October, 2016 to the coordinator of your study centre.
1. What does the „creative process. mean? Describe and
comment upon the elements of the creative process. It is necessary that the stages
in the creative process should occur in a certain order?
2. Discuss the rationale of partnership in innovation and R
& D. “The need for partnership for innovation was never felt more than as
it is today”. Examine the statement. Why is the need for partnership in
innovation felt more strongly today?
3. Gilletee.s invention of „twin blade. design of shaving
razor propelled it into position of „market leadership.. Give five other
criteria which you consider as the most relevant for evaluating this invention.
Give reasons for your choice.
4. Compare the main features of the technology policy of
Indian and some other countries e.g. U.S.A., U.K., and Japan. Offer you
suggestions for improving the technology policy persuade in India.
5. Is India industry giving emphasis to technology
development? Discuss. Is Government in your view providing sufficient financial
support measures for technology development in India?
6. Write short notes on the following:
a) Guided Imaging
b) The Matrix organization
c) SIDBI
d) Total Quality Design (TQD)
ASSIGNMENT
Course Code : MS - 66
Course Title : Marketing Research
Assignment Code : MS-66/TMA/SEM - II/2016
Coverage : All Blocks
Note : Attempt all the questions and submit this assignment
on or before 31st October, 2016 to the coordinator of your study centre.
1. a) What do you understand by the term Marketing Research?
Why it is necessary for firms to seriously consider and undertake research
activities on a continuous basis? Elaborate with suitable example of your
choice.
b) Make a visit to any firm/company from you location on you
are associated with and try to study how marketing research activities are
being initiated, conducted and implemented in the firm. Report your
observations and offer your recommendations accordingly.
2. a) What is research design? Briefly discuss the four
types of research design. You are familiar with. Illustrate each of these
methods accordingly.
b) In the entire research process, data collection is the
key activity which enables to archive the set research objectives. Critically
discuss and evaluate the above statement with suitable illustration.
3. a) Discuss the various sources of collecting primary data
and secondary data for a marketing research project.
b) What is sampling? Discuss the major sampling techniques
available to the researcher for undertaking a research project. Comment on
their limitation.
4. a) Design and construct a suitable questionnaire for the
following:
i) Primary survey to be conducted to study the customer
satisfaction among motorcycle owner.
ii) Television viewing habits among senior citizens (retired
and elderly)
iii) Commuters perception and amenities offered by state
road transport organizations.
b) Distinguish qualitative research and quantitative
research with suitable illustrations.
ASSIGNMENT
Course Code : MS - 68
Course Title : Management of
Marketing Communication and Advertising
Assignment Code :
MS-68/TMA/SEM - II/2016
Coverage : All Blocks
Note : Attempt all the questions and submit this assignment
on or before 31st October, 2016 to the coordinator of your study centre.
1. (a) Why a sound knowledge of
the customer in terms of the needs, preferences, motivation and behavior is
paramount importance for advertisers for designing and formulating a suitable
marketing communication strategy. Discuss at length with a suitable
illustration.
(b) Trace the major changes
that have taken place in the India media scene both in the urban as well as
rural set. Elaborate and propose suitable strategies for advertisers to cope
these charges.
2. (a) Propose and explain the
promotion campaign for the following product which are at the growth and
maturity stage of their PCC.
i) Top end Smart Phone –
(growth stage)
ii) Tablet /Laptop – (maturity
stage).
(b) “Advertiser who ignore
research are as dangerous as general who ignore decodes of enemy signals”.
Discus the reasons why research becomes vital in marketing communication.
3. (a) Explain the relevant
concepts characteristics and issues related to media planning function.
Elaborate on the role and responsibilities of a media planner in relation to
the advertiser and the client being serviced.
(b)
What is direct marketing? Discuss its scope and application areas in the
marketing of products/services with two suitable examples.
4. (a) Make a visit to any
advertising agency in your location or you are associated with try to
gather/collect information with respect to its working in terms of its
functions, structure and agency relation ship with client.
(b) Internet
has revolutionized the way business is conducted and emerged as a strong
medium. Discuss the reasons and comment on the advantages and disadvantages
that it offers both for the firm and the customer.
ASSIGNMENT
Course Code : MS-91
Course Title : Advanced
Strategic Management
Assignment Code :
MS-91/TMA/SEM-II/2016
Coverage : All Blocks
Note: Attempt all the questions and submit this assignment
on or before 31st October, 2016 to the coordinator of your study centre.
1. a) Define corporate
planning. Describe the process of corporate planning in detail.
b) What are the implementation
issues involved in corporate planning?
2. Write a note on the
importance of Government initiatives taken to boost good Corporate Governance.
3. Discuss various market
structures and their impact on competition.
4. Briefly discuss e-business
and the steps involved in formulating an e-business plan.
5. Present couple of cases /
applications of Knowledge Management (KM) and discuss the KM architecture
adopted in those applications. Do you believe that KM can improve
competitiveness of a firm? Give reasons.
6. a) Describe the nature of
corporate philanthropy citing examples.
b) Write a
note on ethics of consumer production and marketing.
ASSIGNMENT
Course Code : MS - 94
Course Title : Technology
Management
Assignment Code :
MS-94/TMA/SEM - II/2016
Coverage : All Blocks
Note : Attempt all the questions and submit this assignment
on or before 31st October, 2016 to the coordinator of your study centre.
1. How is technology helpful in
designing the business strategies of a firm? Explain with the help of a
suitable example.
2. List out of the various
routes of technology transfer. Choose a firm you are acquainted with, which has
adopted a specific route of technology transfer for its product. Discuss the
merits and demerits involved in adopting the specific route by the firm.
3. Discuss the different phases
of diffusion. Explain how the diffusion process can be improved in a firm.
4. What do you understand by
Technology Management Group? Explain why is it essential for an organization to
have a Technology Management Group?
5. Why is development and
training of human resources important as a part of technology organization for
a firm? Explain giving examples.
ASSIGNMENT
Course Code : MS - 96
Course Title : Total Quality
Management
Assignment Code :
MS-96/TMA/SEM - II/2016
Coverage : All Blocks
Note : Attempt all the questions and submit this assignment
on or before 31st October, 2016 to the coordinator of your study centre.
1. List and explain the four
major quality eras. Choose an organization of your choice and evaluate its
present status regarding the quality eras.
2. What are the seven deadly
diseases associated with the traditional management practices? Explain.
3. What do you understand by
Modes of learning? What in your opinion is the role of learning modes in the
performance of employees of an organization? Discuss.
4. Select one common problem in
the firm you are acquainted with and apply the PDCA cycle to solve it.
5. Explain Quality Planning
using a quality planning road map.
ASSIGNMENT
Course Code : MS-97
Course Title : International Business
Assignment Code : MS-97/TMA/SEM-II/2016
Coverage : All Blocks
Note: Attempt all the questions and submit this assignment
on or before 31st October, 2016 to the coordinator of your study centre.
Students registered for the Course MS-97 for July 2015 should attempt questions
from Part-I and those registered for July 2016 should attempt questions from
part – II.
Part – I
1. a) What is corporate life cycle theory? Explain its
various stages with examples.
b) Explain the different modes of entry into international
business. Give illustrations.
2. Discuss different stages of evolutionary patterns of
organizational structures of international business with suitable examples.
3. Explains the accounting problems in relation to
multinational control system.
4. Human resource is considered crucial for success of
multinational enterprises (MNEs). What management practices of MNEs, according
to you, are the best? Explain in detail.
5. Why is the need for multilateral intervention felt in
international trade and business? What institutional framework has been evolved
in this regard?
6. Write a note on environmental volatility and international
business.
Part - II
1. Explain the benefits and importance of International
Business. Identify the challenges in International Business giving examples.
2. Explain the various trade blocks and discuss some of the
major trade blocks in the world.
3. Describe the concept of and need for Strategic Alliances.
Discuss the comprehensive model of Strategic Alliances and Networks.
4. Discuss the strategic issues in International Operations
Management.
5. What is the role of corporate philanthropy in corporate
governance? Discuss citing examples.
6. Write short notes on the following:
a) Effects of Globalisation
b) Legal Environment
ASSIGNMENT
Course Code : MS - 611
Course Title : Rural Marketing
Assignment Code : MS-611/TMA/SEM - II/2016
Coverage : All Blocks
Note : Attempt all the questions and submit them to the
Co-ordinator of your study centre latest by 31st October, 2016.
1. Discuss the rural environment in terms of the
infrastructure available for marketing. How does this environment affect the
marketing decisions and opportunities? Explain taking the example of banking
services.
2. You are a cellular telecom operator with strong roots in
the urban markets. Due to saturation in the existing urban markets, you now
want to expand into rural areas. How would you modify your current marketing
mix strategies according to the rural consumers? Discuss.
3. Explain the importance of branding and packaging
decisions in rural marketing.
4. What are the commonly used methods of sales promotion
directed at the consumers? Identify and describe some rural sales promotion
efforts aimed at generating trial.
5. Briefly explain the factors that influence buyer behavior
in the rural context, highlighting the impact of Family Life Cycle.
6. Explain the role of Melas and Haats in rural
distribution.
ASSIGNMENT
Course Code : MS - 612
Course Title : Retail Management
Assignment Code : MS-612/TMA/SEM - II/2016
Coverage : All Blocks
Note : Attempt all the questions and submit this assignment
on or before 31st October, 2016 to the coordinator of your study centre.
1. a) You are advised to undertake literature review
(secondary data) from various sources pertaining to the Indian retail sector.
Based on the data so obtained ascertain the major factors that have contributed
in driving the growth of the sector. Besides make a list of the challenges that
the sector is currently facing and offer possible remedial measures to overcome
the same. (you can make assumptions accordingly).
b) What do you understand by the term “Wheel of Retailing”?
Pick up any two examples of your choice to explain the same.
2. a) Who is a retailer and what makes him significant in
the whole process of retailing. Discuss with suitable example.
Elaborate on the major activities that a retailer undertakes
in the following situation and why?
i) Multi brand men’s readymade Apparel store.
ii) Chain of computer training centers.
b) Discuss the major considerations involved in strategic
planning process for retail business.
3. a) The Commercial success of every retail business lies
in the right choice of location. Justify the above statement with two retail
business of your choice by evaluating the criteria for choosing a specific
location that contributed for the success of the store.
b) Define and discuss the term “Merchandizing” in retailing.
What makes merchandising a critical function in the growth
of the retail business explain citing a suitable example.
4. a) Why and how does pricing assume strategic significance
in retail business? Briefly explain the most commonly adopted pricing methods
by retailer with suitable examples.
b) Discuss the ethical responsibilities of a retailer?
Explain how does it impact the overall business.
ASSIGNMENT
Course Code : MS - 44
Course Title : Security Analysis and Portfolio Management
Assignment Code : MS-44/TMA/SEM - II /2016
Coverage : All Blocks
Note: Attempt all the questions and submit this assignment
on or before 31st October, 2016 to the coordinator of your study centre.
1. Define Investment. Discuss the effect of changes in
investment environment on investment decisions. Explain the various types of
risks involved in investment.
2. (a) What is 'Primary Market’? Discus the important
developments that have taken place
recently in Indian primary market. .
(b) What do you understand by Initial Public Offer (I.P.O.)?
Who are allowed to make
an I.P.O.?Discuss the salient features of the SEBI
guidelines on I.P.O.
3. (a) Critically evaluate the fundamental analysis. How is
it useful to a prospective
investor?
(b) What are the various techniques of technical analysis?
Explain the various challenges
to technical analysis.
4. (a) What is Markowitz Portfolio Theory? Explain the basic
assumptions of Markowitz
Theory.
(b) Explain the logic of the Arbitrage-Pricing Theory (APT).
Compare and
contrast with the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) ?
5. Critically evaluate the three formula plans and suggest
modification, if any, to make them
useful for investors in Indian Stock Market.
ASSIGNMENT
Course Code : MS - 45
Course Title : International
Financial Management
Assignment Code :
MS-45/TMA/SEM - II /2016
Coverage : All Blocks
Note: Attempt all the questions and submit this assignment
on or before 31st October, 2016 to the coordinator of your study centre.
1. What are the main features
of the exchange rate regime that was designed at Bretton Woods? Explain and
distinguish between Fixed Exchange Rate and Floating Exchange Rate system.
Which one is more suitable and why?
2. Explain the Purchasing Power
Parity Theory with the help of an example. Can there be deviations also from
Purchasing Power Parity relationship? If so, what factors are responsible for
the same?
3. What do you understand by
Exchange Rate Exposures? Describe different types of exchange rate exposures
and the techniques used to manage them.
4. Why is cost of capital
important for a firm? Explain the reasons for variations in the cost of capital
across different countries. Describe the factors contributing to differences in
the risk-free rate and the risk premium
5. How is working capital
management in multinational enterprises different from that of domestic
enterprises? Discuss the transactions incorporated under intra-corporate
transfer of funds and the variables which influence such transfers.
ASSIGNMENT
Course Code : MS - 46
Course Title : Management of
Financial Services
Assignment Code :
MS-46/TMA/SEM - II /2016
Coverage : All Blocks
Note: Attempt all the questions and submit this assignment
on or before 31st October, 2016 to the coordinator of your study centre.
1. Select any financial service
of your choice and discuss the impact of technology on that service.
2. Study any Stock Exchange of
your choice and explain its organizational structure. Also discuss the recent
developments that have taken place in that organization.
3. Discuss the various products
that are being offered by a Mutual Fund of your choice to investors. Which of
these schemes according to you are suitable to which class of Investors?
4. What functions are
undertaken by National Housing Bank? Discuss the powers vested in it to
regulate and supervise the housing finance companies.
5. Discuss in detail about any
two non-life insurance policies that are relevant to each, an individual and an
organization.
ASSIGNMENT
Course Code : MS - 95
Course Title : Research
Methodology for Management Decisions
Assignment Code :
MS-95/TMA/SEM - II /2016
Coverage : All Blocks
Note: Attempt all the questions and submit this assignment
on or before 31st October, 2016 to the coordinator of your study centre.
1.
Does exploratory research always lead to conclusive research? Give adequate
examples to explain your perspective?
2.
What is a research hypothesis? Do all researches require hypotheses formulation?
Explain.
3.
What should be the ideal structure of a research report? What are the elements
of the proposed structure?
4. A social organization
claiming to be promoters of sex education sought the views of parents from the
three Indian states of Punjab, Bihar and Gujarat on introducing sex education
at the school level. The views of 80 parents selected at random from each of
the three states were found as under:
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Punjab
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Bihar
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Gujarat
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In favour
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50
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20
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45
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Against
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30
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60
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35
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