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ANNAMALAI UNIVERSITY

DIRECTORATE OF DISTANCE EDUCATION

M.B.A. HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

SECOND YEAR

Academic Year 2020 - 2021

ASSIGNMENT TOPICS

This booklet contains assignment topics. Students are asked to write the

assignments for SIX papers as per instructions, those who have opted Project and

Viva-Voce.

Students are asked to write the assignments for the EIGHT Papers as per

instruction those who have opted Two Theory Papers (2.7.1 & 2.7.2) as specialization.

Last date for submission: 01.03.2021

Last date for submission with late fee ` 300/- : 16.03.202115-03-2019

NOTE:

1. Assignments sent after 16.03.2021 will not be evaluated.

2. Assignments should be in the own hand writing of the student concerned and

not type-written or printed or photocopied.

3. Assignments should be written on A4 paper on one side only.

4. All assignments (with Enrolment number marked on the Top right hand corner

on all pages) should be put in an envelope with superscription

“MBA Assignments” and sent to The Director, Directorate of Distance Education,

Annamalai University, Annamalainagar – 608 002 by Registered post.

5. No notice will be taken on assignments which are not properly filled in with

Enrolment Number and the Title of the papers.

6. Students should send full set of assignments for all papers. Partial

assignments will not be considered.

ASSIGNMENT INSTRUCTIONS

Write assignments on any TWO questions in each paper out of the FOUR. For

each questions the answer should not exceed 15 – pages. Each assignment carries

25 marks (2 questions). You are expected to write two questions for every subject.

DR. A. RAJASEKARAN

DIRECTOR

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2.1 ORGANISATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND MANAGEMENT OF CHANGE

1. Examines some of the models of OD. Which do you think would be more

appropriate for Indian Industries?

2. “Human beings have a tendency to get merged to a group. This happens

when majority of the groups have changed ultimately creating pressures on

individuals to fall in line with change.” Do you think this a desirable or an

undesirable phenomenon? Give your views.

3. "Many managers believe the effectiveness of third party peace making

intervention rather than comprehensive intervention". Do you agree with

this statement? Justify your views.

4. “A well established company manufacturing readymade garment plans to

introduce new machines and new methods of production. The workers in

the factory numbering five hundred are fearful of the change resisting it in

many ways.” Advice the management how to solve the problem through

derive the appropriate strategy.

2.2 TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT

1. Assume yourself as a CEO of a Yarn Export Company, how will you design

effective training policies in your company? Enumerate the various logistics

arrangements needed for conducting training programmes in your

company.

2. “Most of the training programme fails due to improper need identification”. If

this is true, as a Trainer how will you identify the need for training of an

organization? Express your views.

3. Explain the merits and demerits of different types of training programs. Discuss

their suitability in industries like power generation plant, mines and automobile

assembly line.

4. Device a mechanism of evaluating training and development effectiveness to

assess whether training and development investment gives commensurate

return. Justify your answer.

2.3 LABOUR WELFARE

1. “Labour welfare is not a barrier liability or useless expenditure but a wise

investment.” – Comment upon this statement.

2. “Safety of workers in mines is much more riskier than any other industrial

establishments. We need to evolve a separate policy on their welfare and

safety.” – Do you think so? If so, given your opinion either supporting or

defending this statement.

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3. In what way industrial hazards can be reduced? Can we prevent accidents

by weeding out accident - prone workers? Suggest suitable ways to reduce

accidents in factories (choose an industry of your choice).

4. Why worker’s education is important? How do workers educations improve

the productivity? Discuss.

2.4 INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS

1. What are the causes of poor Industrial relations? What are the effects? Give your

suggestions to improve the legislation concerning industrial Relations in our

country.

2. Critically evaluate the unfair management practices and unfair union

practices. Evaluate a strategy for balancing these two extremes, so as to

ensure both are happy and end up with win-win situation.

3. Enumerate the various factors involved in effective negotiation process.

Explain the emerging issues in the administration of Collective Bargaining

agreements in global context.

4. “Enlightened Trade Unions are highly useful both to the working class and

the management’. – Examine the recent issues happened in Neyveli Lignite

Corporation (NLC) as an example for the above statement.

2.5 WAGES AND SALARY ADMINISTRATION

1. What are the guidelines to be followed in preparing a wage structure at the

enterprise level in a steel production company? Enlist the various problems in

it.

2. When all employees are paid fundamentally the same amount of

compensation, what is the likely impact upon satisfaction and behaviour?

What effect would secrecy – of – pay policy have upon the situation?

3. Outline the purpose of a pay commission. How is it constituted? Critically

examine the recommendations of any four central pay commissions of your

choice.

4. “If selection and placement decisions are done effectively, individual performance

should not vary a great deal, therefore, an incentive system is not necessary” –

Discuss.

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2.6 STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT

1. What is the six sigma strategies? Is this strategies has suitable to all the

organization? If yes explain briefly if no justify your answer.

2. A leading steel company approaches you for strategies formulation and

implementation in the changing environment. Suggest them a combination

of strategies for productivity improvement (Make necessary assumptions).

3. Consider the shampoo market in India. Prepare a table showing the differences

between the strategies adopted by top 5 brands. Explain each point.

4. Differentiate between competitive advantage of a country and a corporate.

Discuss how this can help a firm to win over competition and grab more

market share.

2.7.1 E-COMMERCE

1. What type of electronic payment systems are required in E-Commerce? Why are

there different types of payment systems? Explain the necessary characteristics

of each type of payment system and give an example of each where it is used.

2. Describe the current e-commerce scenario in India and explain the future

prospect of e-commerce

3. Take an example of any two e-commerce companies in India providing high end

e-commerce solutions and describe how they established customer confidence,

trust and ensured privacy and security of the e-commerce transactions.

4. What is meant by Home entertainment? How it is related to E-Commerce and

explains the size of the Home Entertainment Market?

2.7.2 BUSINESS RESEARCH METHODS

1. Why do business organizations need research? A company, faced with the

problem of increasing rate of work force turnover, wants you to conduct a

research on this problem. Prepare a blueprint on the research process, you will

follow.

2. "Research is much concerned with proper fact finding, analysis and evaluation".

Do you agree with this statement? Give reasons in support of your answer.

3. “Whenever possible, it is advisable to use instruments that have already been

developed and repeatedly used in published studies, rather than develop our

own instruments for our studies” - Do you agree? Discuss the reasons for your

answer.

4. "Every data collection method has its own built-in biases. Therefore, resorting to

multi-methods of data collection is only going to compound the biases", How

would you critique this statement?

M.B.A. – 2ND Year / HRM – Assignment- AUP/ C-1600

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