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MBA EM II YEAR
2.1 HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
1. “Job analysis is just another burden placed an organisations through governmental legislation.” Do you agree or disagree? Discuss.
2. You are appointed as HR manager for a large size company of your choice. Now you are asked to fix pay scale for the employees. Explain your process of pay fixation.
3. “Human Resource Management is a proactive approach and personnel management is a reactive approach to perform the same set of functions related to managing human resources.” Do you agree with this statement? Explain.
4. “HR Outsourcing has become a common practice throughout the world.” Discuss the implications of HR outsourcing on HRM functions.
2.2 MARKETING MANAGEMENT
1. In Indian business, firms personal selling is skewed in favour of customers (merchant middlemen). Discuss this statement and describe the current status of personal selling in India.
2. “Physical distribution has been described as the other half of marketing and economy’s Dark Continent.” Do you agree with this statement? Explain.
3. “Packaging has been criticized as being expensive giving no additional value and often deceptive.” How would you justify marketer’s use of packaging?
4. Do you think that social media advertisements would kill all other traditional media? Give your views with proper justification. Also explain under what circumstances online advertisements would be highly recommended.
2.3 FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
1. If your company wants to raise long term loans from the capital market for meeting its future needs, as a Finance Manager which sources you would prefer and why?
2. If the use of financial leverage magnifies the earnings per share under favourable economic conditions, why do the companies not employ a very large amount of debt in their capital structures?
3. “Efficient cash management will aim at maximizing the availability of cash inflows by decentralizing collections and cash outflows by centralizing disbursements”. Discuss from the point of cash conversion cycle.
4. Design an appropriate capital structure which yield more profitability for a service industry. Illustrate your answer with the help of EBIT-EPS analysis.
2.4 OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT
1. Investigate any firm of your choice to determine how the materials management function fits into its organization. Prepare an organizational chart for the firm.
2. 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.
3. What is statistical process control for fraction defectives? With a suitable example of a real life problem, explain the step-by-step procedure for designing a statistical process control chart for fraction defectives.
4. “Spending Money for Maintenance is an Investment” — substantiate your views.
2.5 PROJECT MANAGEMENT AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP
1. Prepare a project report for starting a BPO (Business Process Outsourcing) centre at Chennai.
2. How State and Central Governments motivate to develop new entrepreneurs? As a consultant give suitable tips to motivate new entrepreneurs to avoid unemployment problems.
3. Evaluate the support programmes undertaken by the Government of India for the promotion of entrepreneurship in India.
4. How the women entrepreneurship plays major role in improving the Indian economy? Explain.
2.6 STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT
1. ‘Strategic choice is made in the context of decision situation as well as decision making’. Explain this and show various objective and subjective factors that affect strategic choice.
2. Describe the strategic approaches that Japanese companies have adopted in terms of TQM and continuous improvement.
3. Critically examine the strategies adopted by private Airlines companies to attract more passengers. Assume yourself as the GM of Indian Airlines and chart out a plan of action to counteract your competitors.
4. “Strategies involving mergers and acquisitions are particularly vulnerable to cultural problem” comment with suitable examples.
2.7.1 HRM : (a) LABOUR WELFARE AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
1. “Labour welfare is not a barrier liability or useless expenditure but a wise investment.” — Comment upon this statement.
2. Write an essay on the scope, object and the constitutional validity of the Employees Provident Funds Act.
3. Explain the impact of technological changes in Industrial Relations
4. In the present situation, critically evaluate the term “Collective Bargaining” in India. Suggest the principles for making the process of collective bargaining as a successful one.
2.7.1 HRM: (b) TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT
1. “Skills can be imported, knowledge may be gained but attitudes once hardened cannot be changed.” As a trainer suggest a method to change the attitude.
2. Design a Training Programme for a graduate engineer trainee in a large size engineering organization of your choice.
3. “Training and development is a liability to organization” Explain and give your views.
4. Enumerate problems an HR executive may face while planning and implementation of training programme for semiskilled and unskilled employees.
2.7.2 MM : (a) SALES AND DISTRIBUTION MANAGEMENT
1. Some people opine that a middleman increases the cost of marketing, while others praise it as it adds value to the product. How would you reconcile these two opposite views?
2. If your firm is considering changing the shape of certain territories, what actions would you take to lessen the protests of the sales force who may be upset about this type of change?
3. How sales target are fixed by companies? Discuss about the application of sales forecasting techniques in fixing the target. Do you feel that fixing sales target is useful? Give reasons.
4. What are the different channels available for distribution? How do you select a right channel? Suggest suitable channel for the following products.
2.7.2 MM : (b) MARKETING RESEARCH AND CONSUMER BEHAVIOUR
1. Illustrate with suitable example various sampling techniques used in marketing research. Suggest a suitable sampling plan to collect information from the students of a university regarding the recreation facility available.
2. What are the influences of groups in purchase behaviour? “An individual’s family plays a prominent role in influencing his buying behaviour than groups.” Do you agree? — Discuss.
3. When measuring attitudes, is it Important to consider the situation in which behaviour takes place? Enlist different situations and give suitable examples of how situations might influence attitudes.
4. Discuss the essentials of a good questionnaire. Construct a questionnaire for studying the consumption behaviour of tea in shopping markets and in government offices.
2.7.3 FM : (a) INVESTMENT, SECURITY AND PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT
1. Discuss the present state of Indian capital market. What measures would you take to make the Indian capital market more vibrant?
2. Elucidate the recent developments in stock market wherein interventions of SEBI are in a sterilised market condition. Critically examine the developments in post intervention period.
3. “Explain how the technical indicators will be helpful in Indian stock market for a new investor in picking up the share for investment.
4. Recently many specialized types of mutual funds have appeared. They invest in many companies in the same industry, some invest in the same types of securities of many different forms in different industries. Among these two strategies which is more advisable? Analyse from investor and company point of view.
2.7.3 FM: (b) MANAGEMENT OF FINANCIAL SERVICES
1. “Liberalisation and globalization measures have encouraged the introduction of new financial services in India.” — Explain.
2. Examine the impact of the entry of foreign institutional investors in the Indian Stock Market.
3. Elucidate the services rendered by the credit rating agencies. ICRA, CRISIL and CARE.
4. Explain the impact of foreign direct Investment in Insurance and Banking sector in India.
2.7.4 PM: (a) PRODUCTION, PLANNING, CONTROL AND MAINTENANCE
1. Discuss the various methods of scheduling and loading used in the product layout in Automobile Industries. Bring out the merits & Demerits.
2. Briefly explain the breakdown maintenance. How does the Breakdown time distribution help in determining the maintenance policy?
3. Discuss the significance of Material Requirements Planning (MRP). Prepare a detailed MRP for a company engaged in the manufacturing of computer peripherals.
4. A two wheeler industry fixed a target of producing one vehicle per minute and they are following JIT concept. Design a detailed scheduling chart.
2.7.4 PM : (b) QUALITY MANAGEMENT
1. Select a product or service on your own and describe how the dimensions of quality influence its acceptance.
2. Give a detail plan to implement TQM in an educational institution.
3. Compare the application of Keizen, JIT, Poka Yoke and Benchmarking. Identify the industries which are most suitable for these concepts.
4. Why corporate should do quality audit? Discuss the salient features of ISO 14000. Why this ISO 14000 is critically important for leather industries?
2.7.5 SYSTEMS: (a) PERSONAL PRODUCTIVITY TOOLS
1. How do you set a style sheet in MS-Word to prepare a document? Exemplify the various options available in style sheet.
2. How do you add photos, videos and sound in your power point presentation. Explain the other options available in power point.
3. Name and describe briefly any five types of 3D charts that are available in the chart wizard of Excel. What are the various types of stock available in Excel? Explain the necessary row and column setting to draw these stocks charts?
4. What are the three major steps that Auto content wizard of power point takes its users through? Explain the options available in each step, taking an example of presentation for a Brain Storming session?
2.7.5 (b) INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
1. Discuss the possibility of occurrence of cyber crime in e-commerce. Do you feel there should be separate law for e-commerce? If so, discuss the merits and demerits of enforcing such a law.
2. Develop a database for a functional area of your choice in an organization.
3. Majority of the companies are implementing an ERP system or intend to do so in the coming years. Discuss the managerial implications.
4. Discuss the various payment systems in e-commerce. What precautionary measures are required?
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MBA FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT II YEAR
2.1 MANAGEMENT OF FINANCIAL SERVICES
1. Why companies go for leasing rather than purchasing agreement? What steps are involved in a lease agreement?
2. Analyze the trends in mutual funds and how the fresh fund capitals are mobilized during past five years.
3. In the recent past many investors lost money on stocks and mutual funds because of an economic downturn caused by global banking and financial crises. At the same time many experts argued that this was a “Real Investment Opportunity” because of the depressed price for many stocks and mutual funds. Do you think today is a good time to begin an investment program? Justify your answer.
4. If an entrepreneur approaches you for an advice regarding financing of a project wherein he intends to expand his existing project. What resources you should suggest him to raise his funds?
2.2 INTERNATIONAL FINANCE
1. Define the balance of payments. The balance of payments records all types of international transactions. What are the three main types of international transaction in balance of payment accounts?
2. “Multilateral setting process is good to read in print, but when it comes to implementation, there are bottlenecks.” What does this statement imply? Discuss in detail.
3. India’s Tariff and quota system is restricting international trade especially for Agri Business. — Do you agree with this statement? If Yes / No — substantiate your answer with suitable example.
4. Critically evaluate the success of STC of India in achieving the objectives for which it was established.
2.3 DERIVATIVES MANAGEMENT
1. How the valuation of Interest Rate SWAP, Currency SWAP and FRN are made? Explain them.
2. What is a lower bound price of a 4 month call option on a non dividend paying stock when the stock price is 28 $, strike price is 25$ and risk free interest rate is 8% per annum.
3. Examine the risks in financial derivatives and suggest measures to minimise them.
4. Write a note on role of clearing house with special emphasis upon ‘delivery mechanism’ in futures market
2.4 RISK MANAGEMENT AND INSURANCE
1. You are the newly appointed Risk Manager within an organisation and have noted that there is no written risk management philosophy or statement in place. Advise to the Board regarding the advantages of adopting a risk
document, describing the elements that should be referenced within it.
2. Discuss the loss control measures are to be taken by any manufacturing company of your choice.
3. ‘Insurance is a risk management technique of the corporate sector’– Analyse the statement.
4. Critically examine the role of government in regulation of insurance business in India
2.5 INVESTMENT, SECURITY AND PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT
1. How do operators on a stock exchange affect the economic life of a nation? Is it necessary to control the stock exchange in the present situation? Give your views.
2. “Companies with high credit risk are the ones that cannot access fixed rate market directly. They are the companies that are most likely to be paying fixed and receiving floating in an interest rate swap”. Do you think it increases or decreases the risk of a financial institutions swap portfolio? Assume that companies are most likely to default when interest rates are high.
3. “A fundamental analysis estimate of intrinsic value is different from the present value of all income”. Is this statement true, false or uncertain? Justify your views with appropriate examples.
4. A stock split should have no effect on value but it does seem to affect a firm stock price. How would you reconcile this contradiction? Substantiate with suitable examples.
2.6 STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT
1. What are 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?
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MBA
HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
II YEAR
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.
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.
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
Do 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?
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