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MBA HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT I YEAR
1.1 PRINCIPLES OF MANAGEMENT
1. Management can be defined as " A process of bringing about improvement in knowledge, skill, habit and attitudes of the employees in an organization". Discuss.
2. "Decision making is the most critical managerial task." Discuss the above statement in light of decision-making process.
3. Select a business or political leader whom you admire, and identify his or her style of leading by applying the managerial grid or the continuum-of-behaviour model of Tannenbaum and Schmidt.
4. The only planning tool we need in the company is the budget. If everyone meets his or her budget, we need nothing else, and management by objectives would be an unnecessary frill . Comment.

1.2 MARKETING MANAGEMENT
1. Explain the recent trends in marketing concepts, also discuss the factors that a marketing manager must take into account while developing the marketing mix for the below mentioned products. I. Female cosmetics, II. Children health drinks and III. Adult bike.
2. Every change in the political and legal environment creates an adjustment problem for the marketers as a budding manager what is your opinion about this statement and suggest a suitable strategy to adopt successful and smooth running of your business.
3. In designing an advertising campaign for a soft drink, which would you find more useful; information about consumer demographics or information about consumer life style? Give an example of how would you use each type of information.
4. Suggest a successful way to segment the market for the following products a) Detergent soap b) Designer Jewellery c) Breakfast Cereals.

1.3 FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
1. It is usual to declare good dividends when the company is making good profit. It is profitable for companies not to declare any dividend even when they are making good profits? What will be the reaction of the shareholder? Discuss.
2. If you are working as a financial manager in an organization, what are your policies to make profit for the organization?
3. Assume that you are new entrepreneur to start the business, which financial resources you opt? Justify with your views.
4. The success of a business concern depends upon the way in which it earnings are computed, distributed and retained - comment on this statement.

1.4 OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT
1. Prepare step by step Supply Chain network layout for any manufacturing company.
2. List the various factors to be considered for locating Atomic Power plant.
3. Prepare PERT network for assembling a Motor Bike.
4. Visit any production plant and list various Material Handling devices with photographs. Explain its advantages and disadvantages.

1.5 HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
1."HR outsourcing has become a common practice throughout the world"-Discuss the implications of HR outsourcing functions.
2. Identify the Paramount barriers for effective training programme in IT field and how to crush them". Explain with real life examples.
3. What type of interview techniques do you adopt for selecting an Executive in a FMCG company for the post of Marketing Manager?
4. Assume that you are responsible for evaluating the employees performance in the public sector manufacturing company. Discuss the appraisal process. Also explain techniques you apply for various levels and give reasons.

1.6 STATISTICS FOR MANAGERS
1. Which measure of central tendency would be most useful in each of the following instances?
(a) The production manager for a manufacturer of glass jars, who is concerned about the proper jar size to manufacture, has sample data on jar sizes ordered by customers. Would the mean, median, or modal jar size be of most value to the manager?
(b) The sales manager for a quality furniture manufacturer is interested in selecting the regions most likely to purchase his firm s products. Would he be most interested in the mean or median of family income in prospective sales areas?
(c) A security analyst is interested in describing the daily market price change of the common stock of a manufacturing company. Rarely the market price of the stock changes by more than one point, but occasionally the price will change by as many as four points in one day. Should the security analyst describe the daily price change of the stock in terms of mean, median, or mode of the daily market price change?
2. Late payment of medical claims can add to the cost of health care. An article reported that the mean time from the date of service to the date of payment for one insurance company was 41.4 days during a recent period. Suppose that a sample of 100 medical claims is selected during the latest time period. The sample mean time from the date of service to the date of payment was 39.6 days, and the sample standard deviation was 7.4 days.
a. Using the 0.05 level of significance, is there evidence that the population mean has changed from 41.4 days?
b. What is your answer in (a) if you use the 0.01 level of significance?
c. What is your answer in (a) if the sample mean is 38.2 days and the sample standard deviation is 10.7 days?
3. La Quinta Motor Inns developed a computer model to predict the profitability of sites that are being considered as locations for new hotels. If the computer model predicts large profits, La Quinta buys the proposed site and builds a new hotel. If the computer model predicts small or moderate profits, La Quinta chooses not to proceed. This decision-making procedure can be expressed in the hypothesis-testing framework. The null hypothesis is that the site is not a profitable location. The alternative hypothesis is that the site is a profitable location.
a. Explain the risks associated with committing a Type I error in this case.
b. Explain the risks associated with committing a Type II error in this case.
c. Which type of error do you think the executives at La Quinta Motor Inns are trying hard to avoid? Explain.
4. The chair of the accounting department wants to develop a regression model to predict the grade point average in accounting for graduating accounting majors, based on the students SAT score and whether the student received a grade of B or higher in the introductory statistics course (0 = no and 1 = yes).
a. Explain the steps involved in developing a regression model for these data. Be sure to indicate the particular models you need to evaluate and compare.
b. Suppose the regression coefficient for the variable of whether the student received a grade of B or higher in the introductory statistics course is +0.30, how do you interpret this result?

1.7 MANAGERIAL COMMUNICATION
1. Assuming you are a Chief Personnel Manager of a leading MNC, draft a letter calling a candidate for an interview in reply to his application for the position of Chief Financial Executive.
2. Assume yourself as a Customer Relationship Manager of a bank. You have received a letter from your customers who have complained to you about the rude behaviour of a computer clerk. Since the customer is an important person, write a letter to convince the customer.
3. Communication is lifeblood of an organization and without it organization cannot exists. Discuss this statement.
4. The problem of communication arises because there are various obstacles which may entirely prevent a communication or filter part of it, or present it incorrect. Comment and discuss.

1.8 ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOUR
1. Understanding the basic concepts of Organizational Behaviour prepare a Behavioural frame work for a newly established IT company in Chennai. Student can imagine the size and turnover of the industry.
2. To understand the importance of the concepts personality, perception, and attitude of employees in an organization, prepare an interview schedule, conduct an interview with 2-3 executives of any one organization and present the results.
3. After listing out the qualities and theories of leadership, have a discussion with one or two real world leaders of your choice and present the outcome.
4. Identify a suitable case to understand Organizational Culture, analyze the case and present it with issues and strategies.

MBA HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT II YEAR

2.1 ORGANISATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND MANAGEMENT OF CHANGE
1. Change is easy to devise but difficult to implement and nearly impossible to sustain . Discuss with live examples from any industry of your choice.
2. Mr. Ramesh, CEO of a company is going to introduce mechanization in his company to speedup the production process. This leaves 10% of employees to be unemployed. The casual laborers resist this mechanization process. Assume that you are consultant; intervene in this issue and act as consultant to both Mr. Ramesh and the employees.
3. Discuss the major interventions. In your opinion, Which OD interventions are most effective? Why?
4. Bring out an essay on the OD in Multinational companies after 2010.

2.2 TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT
1. Briefly explain business case for e-learning. Describe the advantages and disadvantages of e-learning in Indian scenario.
2. Prepare a training schedule for a newly joined salesman in a Parma company.
3. Assume that you are training an employee to diagnose and repair a loose wire in an electrical socket. After demonstrating the procedures to follow, you let the trainee show you how to do it. The trainee correctly demonstrates the process and repairs the connection on the first attempt. Has learning occurred? Justify your Answer.
4. Many employees are unwilling to relocate geographically because they like their current community and because spouses and children prefer not to move, as the result, it is difficult to develop employees through job experiences that require relocation. How could an employee s current job be changed to develop that employee s leadership skills?

2.3 LABOUR WELFARE
1. A Workman under the influence of drink touched a live wire while working at a machine and instantaneously died. His wife claimed compensation, but the employee took the plea that he was not liable as the accident arouse out of a default by the workman. Critically, evaluate and comment on the incident.
2. Write the various statutes enacted by Indian parliament from time to time and various schemes implemented by the government for the welfare of the child, female and contract labourers in India.
3. Give a detail note on voluntary welfare facilities provided by the Indian organization of your choice.
4. The services of employer were terminated due to closure. But the apex court held that the services to be continued on same terms and conditions either in the government or in the government operations. Discuss.

2.4 INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
1. Critically evaluate the existing statutory machinery available for settling industrial dispute in India. Are they effective? Give your suggestion.
2. Grievance handling has been called day-to-day collective bargaining. It involves the continuing interpretation of the collective bargaining agreement but usually not its renegotiation. Converse the statement with suitable examples.
3.) Disciplinary proceedings must be treated as the means for an end - Explicate the statement clearly identifying the means and ends .
4. For peaceful evolution of the economic system in a democratic basis, it is essential that workers participation in management should be accepted as a principle and urgent need. Do you agree with the statement? Justify your answer.

2.5 WAGES AND SALARY ADMINISTRATION
1. Compare the Salary template of Three Companies and find out the one that has the most amount of Tax Saving schemes.
2. Do a Web Search of Indian Industries using the term salary survey, find out the most relevant and up-to-date information on the same.
3. Give the SWOT Analysis report on the 7th Pay Commission Recommendations.
4. How to impose rules and policies on compensation in terms of salary and other benefits for managerial personnel. What process would you adopt in revision of existing salary structure of an organization?

2.6 STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT
1. Do a SWOT Analysis for Reliance Jio 4G services in Indian market and analyse the strategic approach of reliance communication in this regard.
2. What were the major strategic drawbacks of Kingfisher Airlines? What was the vital reason for its dropdown? Consider the strategic issues and justify it.
3. Illustrate with examples of hyper competition and competitive dynamic approaches in strategic marketing.
4. Why would management adopt a stability strategy? Can stability strategies be viable over a lengthy period of time? Why or Why not?

2.7.1 E-COMMERCE
1. Enumerate Security of Internet hosts and networks, Public key infrastructure, Safety of E-Commerce applications, Electronic payment systems, Trust and reputation in E-Commerce.
2. Discuss about the prevention procedures of the firewall to avoid the attack of Hackers.
3. Online Shopping generate new economy - Comment your opinion with proper Justification.
4. Discuss the role played by E-commerce in providing customer service at the various stages (product selection to post purchase) in an online buying transaction.

2.7.2 BUSINESS RESEARCH METHODS
1. Empirical research in India creates so many problems for the researchers . State the problems that are usually faced by young researchers.
2. Using the different measurement scales, prepare a questionnaire, on a topic of your choice and indicate the statistical tools can be used for analysis of the questionnaire.
3. Critically examine the following statements.
(a) Interviews cause more bias than the use of questionnaire while collecting data.
(b) Projective technique is reliable and authentic method of data collection.
4. Majority of the researches makes use of primary sources of data and secondary data sources do not really contribute to a scientific enquiry . Do you agree (or) disagree with the statement? Explain.

MBA INFORMATION SYSTEM I YEAR
1.1 PRINCIPLES OF MANAGEMENT
1. Management can be defined as " A process of bringing about improvement in knowledge, skill, habit and attitudes of the employees in an organization". Discuss.
2. "Decision making is the most critical managerial task." Discuss the above statement in light of decision-making process.
3. Select a business or political leader whom you admire, and identify his or her style of leading by applying the managerial grid or the continuum-of-behaviour model of Tannenbaum and Schmidt.
4. The only planning tool we need in the company is the budget. If everyone meets his or her budget, we need nothing else, and management by objectives would be an unnecessary frill . Comment.

1.2 MANAGERIAL ECONOMICS
1. Decision making is the most important function of business managers. Decision making is the central objective of Managerial Economics. Discuss - Scope of the Economics in Decision Making and Different Decision Making Models.
2. Monopolistic Competition is a special case of imperfect completion. It stance between monopoly and perfect completion and accordingly the pricing decision are determined by the market forces Discuss.
3. Since different decision are affected by difference type of cost, it is essential for a manager to understand the relevant cost in decision making. Comment in detail.
4. The concept of price velocity is very useful in the total revenue planning of your firm. Comment on the validity of this statement. Derive a relationship between price velocity and marginal revenue of a firm.

1.3 ACCOUNTING AND FINANCE FOR MANAGERS
1. What are the significant assumptions we make while comparing financial ratio of various companies in the same industry? Discuss the implications of the above assumptions for a user of financial ratios.