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ANNAMALAI UNIVERSITY MBA ASSIGNMENT 2020-21 SOLUTIONS

ANNAMALAI UNIVERSITY

DIRECTORATE OF DISTANCE EDUCATION

M.B.A. HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

FIRST YEAR

Academic Year 2020 - 2021

ASSIGNMENT TOPICS

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

assignments for EIGHT papers as per instructions.

Last date for submission : 31.03.2021

Last date for submission with late fee ` 300/- : 15.04.2021

NOTE:

1. Assignments sent after 15.04.2021 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

question 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

1.1 PRINCIPLES OF MANAGEMENT

1. Take any country with which you are familiar and discuss how a factor in the

educational environment imparts on managing an enterprise.

2. Choose the organization where matrix type of departmentation is appropriate?

Compare the pros and cons of this type over the others.

3. "A misconceived and incapable leader may take his followers to dangers of life".

Explain the statement. Describe the qualities and trait of any two successful,

Entrepreneurs in India.

4. The job of the supervisor is many more difficult than that of higher level managers’.

5. Examine the major responsibilities of a supervisor in an agro based Industry.

1.2 MARKETING MANAGEMENT

1. What kinds of sales promotion techniques are available for laptop computers?

Based on the schemes available in the market, suggest a suitable scheme for a

company planning to launch a Laptop.

2. How do marketers disaggregate a market into a number of sub-markets/District

sub-units of buyers – What are the constraints a marketer will face to a

homogeneous market – Explain?

3. Do you think the market segmentation criteria bring market opportunities to

product marketer? If so, identify them. Also identify some leading brands

currently positioned for women in these segments. Can you think of few for

your own innovative product concepts targeted at these segments?

4. In today’s India the growth of online marketing is going with upward trend.

Discuss the pros. & cons. Which segment of consumers and what kind of

products dominates online marketing?

1.3 FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT

1. Due to over capitalization the company may collapse which would certainly affect

its employees, society, consumers and its shareholders. What remedies you

would suggest? Give suitable examples.

2. Assume that you are a financial manager of medium sized company. Explore the

possibilities of generating the different sources of capital at fair rate.

3. The contention that dividends have an impact on the share price has been

characterized as the bird-in-the hand argument. Explain the essential of this

argument. Why this argument is considered fallacious?

4. Identify the macro factors which are prevailing in the global economy, leading to

mergers and acquisitions.

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1.4 OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT

1. Discuss the various inventory models used in industries. Do you think JIT

inventory is successful in India? Explain.

2. How an MRP system does helps management, monitor the performance of

the inventory system? Give a specific example of what the system does to

direct management’s attention to problem areas?

3. Bring out the arguments for and against 'make' or 'buy' decisions. How is the

problem of make-or-buy resolved? Explain this by considering a bike

manufacturing company.

4. Discuss the functions of purchasing department in an Industry. Explain some

methods of purchasing commonly adopted in an Industrial Purchasing. Why

should the purchasing documents be legally sound?

1.5 HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

1. Design a process for promoting internal candidates. How does the process differ

from the one used for selecting external applicants?

2. Explain the principles of disciplining employees. What are the consequences of

enforcing discipline without prior information?

3. As a frontline supervisor, what indicators would you need in order to decide

whether a low-performing subordinate was a selection mistake are merely needs

training? Illustrate this dilemma with suitable examples.

4. A growing number of employees are reluctant to accept overseas assignments.

Why do they refuse? What benefits and services would you offer to them to

accept such transfer?

1.6 STATISTICS FOR MANAGERS

1. a) Write clearly the relationship between binomial Poisson distribution.

b) Five hundred television sets are inspected as they come off the production

line and the number of defects per set is reordered below:

No. of defects : 0 1 2 3 4

No. of Television: 368 72 52 7 1

Estimate the average number of defects per set and the expected frequencies

assuming Poisson distribution.

2. There is a general belief that high income families send their children to

government school. For this, 1000 families were selected in a city and the

following results were obtained.

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Income Public school Government school Total

Low 100 200 300

High 500 200 700

Total 600 400 1000

Use chi-square test to determine whether income level and the type of

schooling are associated.

3. From the following data:

X 25 22 28 26 35 20 22 40 20 18

Y 18 15 20 17 22 14 16 21 15 14

a) Calculate regression equation X on Y and Y on X.

b) Estimate X when Y = 20

c) Estimate Y when X=20

d) Calculate Karl Pearson's coefficient of correlation

e) Check whether Regression line is a good fit.

4. Define the inverse of a matrix. Solve the following system of equations using

matrix inversion method.

1. 2x + 4y + 2z = 12

2. 5x – 2y + 6z = 07

3. 3x + 3y – 4z = 5

1.7 MANAGERIAL COMMUNICATION

1. Elaborate on the merits and demerits of using technology in business

communication.

2. “Body language is one of the ways to communicate to the employees down the line” –

Do you consider that it is effective? Explain.

3. The President of the company has asked for a study of the employee's

attitude over company's personnel policies. Write a research proposal on the

specific topic of your choice.

4. You have recently joined a branch of a company, as its Manager. Write a

report to the head office on the defects in the routine work of the branch.

Also, suggest remedies for those defects.

1.8 ORGANISATIONAL BEHAVIOUR

1. “Behaviour is basically dissimilar” How will you try to ensure uniformity in

behaviour towards achieving conformity with organizational goals?

2. “Informal organization is detrimental to the interests of formal organization and

therefore, it is an evil to be nipped in the bud itself”. Comment on this

statement and explain how management should handle informal groups.

3. Do you think there might be any positive and significant relationship between the

possession of certain personal values and successful career progression in

organizations like Infosys, Tata group of companies and Apollo Hospital? Discuss.

4. Cite two examples of impression management based on your own experience.

Why do people try to manage impressions?

M.B.A. – 1ST YEAR / HRM – ASSIGNMENT- AUP/ C-750

ANNAMALAI UNIVERSITY PRESS 2020 – 2021