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STUDENTS NEED TO TAKE A POSITIVE APPROACH FOR THE SAME.

SOME OF THE SAMPLE QUESTIONS FOLLOWS:

M.B.A. (HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT)

FIRST YEAR

1.1 PRINCIPLES OF MANAGEMENT

1. Choose one academic administrator and another public administrator and

conduct interview and then ask them how their job differs from that of business

managers. How do they know how well their department, institution or

organization is performing, Since profit is probably not one of the criteria for

assessing effectiveness and efficiency?

2. Design a interview schedule and conduct the interview a manager in your

locality and ask him how many subordinates he has. Are different numbers of

subordinates supervised at the top, the middle, and the bottom of the

organizational hierarchy? What really determines the span of management in

the organization?

3. “There are two notions about relationship between job satisfaction and

productivity: a happy worker is a productivity one; a happy worker is not

necessarily a productive one. Critically evaluate this statement and bring out the

situations under which each statement is true”.

4. “Planning is the basis, delegation is the key, information is the guide, and action

is the essence of control of.” Trace the relationship between control and other

functions with real life examples.

1.2 MARKETING MANAGEMENT

1. Examine the suitable demographic segmentation variables other than age and

sex for the following industry

• Two wheeler

• Brewery

• Insurance

2. You have been selected by the ABC pharmaceutical company to be a sales force

for the period of three years. Identify and describe how you would progress

through the steps in effective selling.

3. Select an example of a new product failure in the recent context. Explore and

prepare a report highlighting the causes for its failure. Do you think a better

understanding of consumer behaviour could have contributed to its success in

the market place? Do you accept or not? Justify your stand.

4. Design a questionnaire to determine repeat purchase behaviour and brand

loyalty with respect to

• Fairness cream

• Mobile

• Sports shoe

• Ready-to-wear garments

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1.3 FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT

1. Design an appropriate capital structure which yields more profitability of a

service industry of your choice. Illustrate your answer with the help of an EBITEPS

analysis.

2. The finance manager should take an account of the time value of money in order

to take a correct financial decision. Elucidate the statement with the help of

suitable illustration.

3. The goal of capital management is the maximisation of long run earning to

present share holders.-Comment

4. You are a finance manager in a manufacturing organization. You came to know

the sales are very low when compared to the last year. So you have decided to do

credit sales. Draft a proposal highlighting the decision areas to be concentrated

to avoid non-payment.

1.4 OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT

1. Selecting a facility location usually involves a sequence of decisions. This

sequence can include a national decision, a regional decision, a community

decision and a site decision. Elucidate your views with reference to the above

context.

2. Why is the management of projects a challenge for most of the managers in

production systems? How do these managers meet those challenges? What tasks

must the project team perform before the project begins? What tasks must the

project team perform as the project progresses?

3. Rane is a medium size manufacture of oil field pumps. The firm has developed a

new model of high-pressure, secondary-recovery purge pump which improved

performance. Hemalatha, manager of process engineering, is trying to decide

whether Rane should make or buy the electronically controlled input valve for

the new pump. Her engineers have developed the following estimates:

Make

(Process A)

Make

(Process B)

Buy

Annual volume 10000 units 10000 units 10000 units

Fixed cost/year Rs.100,000 Rs.300,000 ---

Variable cost/unit Rs.75 Rs.70 Rs.80

a) Should Rane make the valve using Process A, make the valve using Process

B, or buy the valve?

b) At what annual volume should Rane switch from buying to making the valve

using Process A?

c) At what annual volume should Rane switch from Process A to Process B?

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4. A JIT implementation team is evaluating lot sizes and setup times throughout

the factory. The first machine to be evaluated currently requires about 20

minutes for the machine operator to complete a changeover between different

part types. Each part requires 1.2 minutes for processing. Parts are currently

produced in batches of 60 units. The labor rate is Rs.14.50 per hour.

a) What is the current average labor cost per part, including changeovers?

b) If the changeover time could be reduced to 10 minutes, how much labor cost

per part would be saved using the current batch size of 60 units?

c) If the changeover time could be reduced to 10 minutes, how much could the

batch size be reduced in order to achieve the current average labor cost per

unit?

1.5 HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

1. “One reason for implementing global training programmes is the need to avoid

business losses due to cultural insensitivity”. What sort of training programme

would you recommend to avoid such cultural insensitivity?

2. Bring out some real life examples of how to use interest inventories to improve

employee selection. In doing so, suggest some examples of occupational

interests that you believe might predict success in various occupations including

Professor, Accountant and System Analyst.

3. Design a graphic rating scale for the below mentioned professions:

i. Secretary

ii. Engineer

iii. Web Designer

4. Develop an incentive plan for the following positions:

i. Chemical Engineer

ii. Plant Manager

iii. Used car sales force

iv. First-line supervisor

Examine the factors that you have to consider in reaching your conclusions.

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1.6 STATISTICS FOR MANAGERS

1. The personal director of a company wishes to select applicant for advanced

training without regard to sex. Let ‘W’ denote Women and ‘M’ Denotes men and

the pattern of arrival be M WWW MMM WW M WWW MMMM W M W MM WWW

MM W MMMM WW M WW MMMM WW M WWWW MM WW M W M WW. Will

you conclude that the applicants have arrived in a random fashion?

2. The following represent the number of unit of production per day turned out by

four different workers using five different types of machine:

Machine Type

Worker A B C D E Total

1 4 5 3 7 6 25

2 5 7 7 4 5 28

3 7 6 7 8 8 36

4 3 5 4 8 2 22

Total 19 23 21 27 21 111

On the basis of this information , can it be concluded that (1) the Mean

Productivity in the same for different Machine, (II) the worker’s don’t different

with regard to productivity

3. The average monthly sales of 5000 firms are normally distributed, its mean and

standard deviation are 36,000 and 10,000 respectively, Find.

a. The number of firm have sales over 40,000

b. The percentage of firms having sales between Rs. 38,500 and Rs 41,000

c. The number of firm having sales between Rs. 30,000 and Rs. 40,000

The relevant extract of the area table (under normal curve ) is given below

Z 0.25 0.40 0.5 0.6

Area 0.0987 0.1554 0.1915 0.2257

4. Mr. Ramana and Miss. Lalita, Researchers of Management department, Adopted

different sampling techniques while investigating the sample of the students to

know the number of students falling in different intelligence level. The results are:

Researcher Below Average Average Above Average Genius

Ramana 129 90 66 15

Lalita 80 66 50 4

On the basis of the above data, can we say that the two researchers have adopted

significantly different sampling techniques? Test the hypothesis at (a) 0.05 and

(b) 0.01 level significance.

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1.7 MANAGERIAL COMMUNICATION

1. Compare the barriers to oral and writtern communication. Which is more

challenging? Provide the ways and means of overcoming these challenges.

2. What is the relationship between leadership behaviour and effectiveness of

communication? As a leader draft a letter to your subordinates to propose new

product ideas. (Assume a FMCG company of your choice)

3. What is Blogs can be used to promote business for a company selling designer

leather goods? List out the essential characteristics of a good blog.

4. In what way business and academic reports differ? Draft a business report to be

submitted by a Regional sales manager to Vice President of a company marketing

medical equipments.

1.8 ORGANISATIONAL BEHAVIOUR

1. Suggest any suitable motivational theory for IT industry and substantiate

your views.

2. “Attitude determines your Altitude”-Substantiate your views on this quote

with relevant corporate examples.

3. “A happy Worker is a productive worker”- Discuss in a behavioral

perspective.

4. ‘Organisational development involves the development of organization in the

light of its future expansion plan’. Elaborate your views.

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M.B.A. (HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT)

SECOND YEAR

2.1 ORGANISATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND MANAGEMENT OF CHANGE

1. The issues that arise in consultant-client relationship are preventable? How?

Explain.

2. "Change does not occur in a vacuum" Discuss the factors operating both within

and outside the organisation.

3. Change is a process that can be enabled, not managed. Discuss.

4. T-Groups are probably the oldest OD intervention but still now we are using it

why? Substantiate your views?

2.2 TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT

1. Devise a development program for the managerial personnel of an MNC

2. Identify the procedures and their pitfalls for the effective implementation of MDP

in organizations and suggest suitable measure to avoid pitfalls.

3. Discuss the training methods available for the development of various skills of

Public Sector employees with suitable illustrations.

4. Examine the training evaluation practices in Indian industries.

2.3 LABOUR WELFARE

1. Discuss the legal provisions governing sanitary and hygiene facilities under the

factories Act.1948.

2. Explain the milestones in the development of labour welfare in India.

3. Discuss "arising out of and in course of employment" as used in Workmen's

Compensation Act.1923.

4. What are the measures that can be taken to improve the working conditions?

Quote an example of a large industrial unit.

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2.4 INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS

1. Sketch the existing models of Workers Participation in Management followed in

Indian industries? Critically evaluate and identify their limitations and suggest

suitable measures to overcome it.

2. “Trade unions are inevitable for Industrial democracy” – Comment on this

statement with regard to its principles and functions.

3. Critically assess the administrative machinery set up by Central and State

Governments for resolving industrial disputes in India. How far it is effective?

Bring out your suggestions to make them more effective?

4. With recent examples, explicate the collecting bargaining practices followed in

Indian Public sectors. How far it differs from Private Sectors?

2.5 WAGES AND SALARY ADMINISTRATION

1. Is wage paid to the person for the job done by him or for the designation what he

holds? Examine this statement with the help of the evidences from industry.

2. “Equal pay for equal job”. Do you agree with this statement? Justify your stand

by quoting examples from the pay structures of State and Central Governments

for the same job.

3. Why does collective bargaining fail in most of the time? Identify the reasons for

the failure and suggest fruitful measures to make the collective bargaining

success.

4. Do fringe benefits motivate the employees to enhance productivity? If yes, quote

few examples from Government and Private sector companies. If not, identify the

rationale behind offering such fringe benefits.

2.6 STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT

1. Trace the path taken from organizational resources and organizational behavior

to the development of strategic advantage.

2. In what way can timing and competitor reaction be crucial for a strategic choice?

Discuss.

3. Congruence and co-ordination among strategies should take place through

vertical and horizontal fit. Explain.

4. Companies should evaluate performance on the basis of a combination of

quantitative and qualitative criteria. Why? Discuss.

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2.7.1 E-BUSINESS

1. Give a detailed presentation on designing, developing and deploying the on-line

business system for textile industry.

2. Discuss the challenges and opportunities of e-commerce in Indian Software

Industry.

3. “EDI is not especially complex or convoluted, but many EDI projects fail when

responsibility is thrust wholly on the IT staff”. Discuss in detail.

4. Globalization has put increased pressure on organizations to operate at entirely

new level of effectiveness. This can be managed through application of BPR tools

to reduce procedures and the use of IT for effective decision-making. Present

your perspectives elaborately.

2.7.2 BUSINESS RESEARCH METHODS

1. Consider the following research questions,

(a) How do the minority groups at a certain university view the students

counseling program?

(b) Examine the relationship between intelligence and creativity among the

students.

Indicate:

(i) The type of research that would best answer the question

(ii) An appropriate sampling method

(iii) The best method of collecting the data.

2. Discuss the role of Regression analysis in business and industry. How are

Regression Coefficients helpful in analysing the Regression lines?

3. The mean weekly sales of soap bars in department stores was 146.3 bars per

store. After an advertising campaign, the mean weekly sales in 22 stores for a

typical week was increased to 153.7 and showed a standard deviation of 17.2.

Was the advertising campaign successful?

4. Prepare questionnaire for the following research problem.

“Identify the factors influencing recently married couples striking a divorce”

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