SOLVED ASSIGNMENTS 2017 PGDBM | PGDMM| PGDFM 4TH SEMESTER

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Employee Development and Talent management

Q.1) ABC Ltd is a small business organization into plastic manufacturing. The environment of the company is such where there is a limited scope for employee training and development. Due to this, turnover rate of the company is very high. You are appointed as a consultant to ABC Ltd. Suggest a model to link business strategy and HRD.

Q.2) XYZ Ltd has decided to implement employee development program at their institution. The HR Manager has built the long term and short term plans for the employee development program. Company, now, has decided to seek your assistance to take the process implementation further as they need to ensure that the process is implemented as per the expert advice. What will you suggest as the next step?

Q.3) You are an HR Manager of a leading telecommunication hardware company. Your ace product is an 8000 Rs Smartphone. Your company is planning widespread domestic expansion. For this, you have recruited new 100 employees. Considering the above facts, answer the following questions

a) Suggest few on the job training methods

b) Suggest few off the job training methods

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HR Audit

Q.1. Assume you to be HR Manager of Merwick Lynda Automobile Ltd. In order to develop and retain your employees and yield benefits for the organization, explain the HR practices you will follow.

Q.2. You have been hired as an HR Auditor to identify the key functional areas that have an effect on the HR policies and procedures that are practiced in the organization. Prepare the draft.

Q.3. Walter D Souza, HR Manager at Xylo Inc. was charged with discrimination in hiring, pay and appraisal practices. Many departments were planning to file suits against Walter, for his unethical, judgmental and bias behavior. The Company wanted to know if its HR practices in the areas of selection and promotion are at risk and wondered if there were unseen flaws that could make Walter free from charges. To address its concerns, the company appointed you to conduct a HR process audit.

a) You have to evaluate recruitment and selection process.

b) Identify the gaps in performance appraisal system.

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International HR Practices

Q.1) You are an HR Manager at ABC Ltd. Your company is planning international expansion and you are asked to identify issues and challenges for International Human Resource Management so that the same can be addressed.

Q.2) You are HR Director of XYZ Ltd operating in automobile sector (Two Wheeler segment) Your company is planning to set up the manufacturing unit in China. Before acquiring talent, what will you do?

Q.3) A team of 20 employees is leaving for South Africa next month to work in the first international branch of your bank. You are an HR Manager of the bank. Answer following questions in this context

a) Design a pre departure training program

b) Training on job related factors

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Strategic HRM

Q 1. A reputed car manufacturer in India in its recent past had faced a Labor Unrest. Of the many issues that the workers demanded included the renegotiation of the 3-year wage settlement, withdrawal of the new automated sorter and stacker for the warehouse, regularizing the employment of 1500 contract and casual labor employed in the factory and reinstatement of the 23 workers who were fired recently on various grounds of misconduct.
Given the details in the preceding paragraph, discuss the strategic issues related with the case and detail the various approach that the management can take to ensure smooth daily business.

Q 2. Retails a giant Brick and Mortar retail company is currently experiencing a major challenge at the market place from a giant multinational e-commerce company. The Top Management leadership, as part of its Business level strategy to increase revenue and footfall has taken a cost optimization approach. You are the Head of HR, discuss your options and plans for arriving at a Business Level Strategy and its implementation.

Q 3. Trail Logistics is a growing SCM company. The Business is such that not just the movement of goods, but the customer experience is of paramount importance.

a. As part of the employee motivation career development initiative was to be leveraged to infuse motivation. Discuss the approach.

b. Discuss the strategic issues of Success Planning.

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International Logistics and Supply Chain Management

1. Suggest the taxonomy for a three-dimensional classification for global supply chain. Identify the issues that affect the operations and strategy of a global logistics firm say DHL or TNT and recommend ways to handle such issues.

2. As a General Manager Supply Chain Management of a leading domestic garment manufacturing firm, you have proposed the option of exploring international procurement for the first ever time for your company. Suggest the various components of your proposal.

3. Based on your recommendation, the Board of the garment company has decided to go ahead and place trial order with an international supplier whom you have recommended.

a. Enlist the constituents of the import / export sales contract.

b. Suggest a warehousing management plan.

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B2B Marketing

Q.1. SVC is a leading brand in the B2B category in the air freshening business in the hotel industry in Mumbai. As a Marketing Manager, suggest a suitable CRM strategy with the objective of stimulating the association with the customers.

Q.2. A B2B Company in the business of marketing & selling LCD projectors to corporate, wants to enter in to selling their projectors to educational institutes. Suggest a suitable pricing strategy.

Q.3 Read the following Case & solve the questions given:
VK Industries has ventured into manufacturing of bearings required in automobile industry. It is planning to approach automobile companies for the bearings required as a component in the manufacturing in the automobile sector. As a Marketing Manager of VK enterprise, you are required to:

a. Suggest a suitable Segmentation, Targeting & Positioning Strategy for the bearings.

b. As a new entrant, suggest suitable Strategies to create reasonable awareness for VK industries.

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Integrated Marketing Communications

1. How will you use the sales technique in the form of short term effort to increase the sales in your cake shop?

2. What form of trade shows do you suggest for a tile company and how should they go about differentiating themselves from the competitors?

3. Case Study
Renaults Kwid skids on volume
The French car, one of the most successful small cars in recent years and the growth engine for French carmaker Famous in France, appears to be losing speed, at least in volumes. The numbers sold by the company (to dealers) hit an eight-month low at 6,924 units in January after peaking to 10,719 units in August 2016. Volumes have been less than 8,800 for three consecutive months since November.
Launched in September 2015, the unconventional sports utility vehicle-styled entry segment aggressively priced car shot to success, attracting thousands of buyers instantly. A consequent waiting period, running into several months, prompted the company to ramp up production. Eyeing more market share, The French car maker also decided to expand its sales and service network.
Seen as a challenger to the Japanese entry-level vehicle Which is the basic car (the most sold car in the country), The French car started figuring among the top 10 most sold domestic passenger vehicles since June last year. However, the rank slipped from fifth in June to ninth in December and it did not figure in the list last month when 6,924 units were sold.
The French car maker, however, says that their car numbers are growing according to plan. In India Q4 sales are impacted by seasonal trends wherein sales tend to dry. The same can be seen in the mini segment. We have communicated our targets or their car between 8,000 to 10,000 units per month and we are on track with this said a spokesperson.
The cars early success is evident from 50,000 bookings within only about a month of launch. The company announced in March 2016 that bookings hit another milestone of 100,000 units. Yet another milestone of 150,000 booking was made public in July 2016. When the French car maker expanded this basic car range with the launch of 1-litre engine in August last year. It said cumulative bookings of this car stood at 165,000 vehicles. However, there has been no further update on booking numbers. The spokesperson did not answer the specific query on cumulative bookings till date. The French car maker announced last week it had sold 130,000 of this car since the launch but did not talk about bookings.
Volumes sold by the company hit and eight-month low of 6,900 in January. After hitting a high of 10,000 units around August-September, the number looks under pressure since November. Pace of new bookings are also subdued unlike in the initial few months. The company last announced in July 2016 bookings has hit 150,000 units. There was no update since then. The basic Japanese entry car made by the Japanese company in India which is most sold small car, has seen gradual pick up of volumes and 22,000 units were sold in January.
The spokesperson did not give any reason for the decline in January volumes but said while the mini car industry grew 15.1 per cent in January 2017, for the French car, the growth was 15.7 per cent. So clearly, we are above the industry trend. The company said February volumes were good and it was confident of retaining the volume levels hit in Q1 of calendar year 2016.
The small car market, dominated by Japanese car, has seen another entrant, Entry car from Indian manufacturer. The Indian car manufactures by the well known Indian conglomerate clocks an average monthly volume of 4,600 units. An analyst said that some impact on the French car might have come from the entry of that new car from Indian manufacturer (launched in April last year). Both the French car and the Indian car appeal to the same set of buyers. He said.
The French car begins at price of Rs. 2.65 lakh while the Indian car entry level model comes for Rs. 3.24 lakh.
Data Jun-16 Jul-16 Aug-16 Sep-16 Oct-16 Nov-16 Dec-16 Jan-17
French
Car 9549 9879 10719 10558 9801 7847 8797 6924
Japanes
e Car 15750 19844 20919 27750 18854 23320 17351 22998

a. Looking at the stastics in the chart how will you plan to boost up the sales of the French car in the competition that is coming from Japanese and Indian car manufacturer? What is your strategy to retain and grow your market share?

b. What kind of sales promotion activities would you do to increase the sales of the French Car ? What should The French car manufacturer do to differentiate their car from their competitors?

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Marketing Research

Q.1. Define sampling. Discuss in brief the various sampling methods employed by Research firms to conduct any Research/ Survey with reference to a survey conducted to study the feasibility to open a new restaurant in a residential area of metro city.

Q2. With reference to a Clothing & apparel company define and discuss the various avenues the company has for conducting and Advertising research campaign to market its products. Give your views on the relevance as concluding remarks.

Q3. A corporate catering services in north India, would like to start its catering services in South Mumbai. If you have been hired to carry out marketing research activities for the organisation, give your views/ suggestions/ report for the following:

a) Design a brief questionnaire for the research. Discuss the importance of the questionnaire in a research process.

b) How would you collect primary & secondary data and give the relevance of the same.

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Services Marketing

Q.1 As a Marketing Manager of an upcoming private sector Bank, you are required to plan the 7 P s of Services Marketing.

Q.2 Prepare a questionnaire for Imagica focus on customers perception on the services offered & the quality of service offered.

Q.3 Read the following Case & solve the questions given:
Crossword is one of the most well know retail book-store in the country. It has around 40,000 titles at any given point of time. In order to enhance customer experience it focuses on physical evidence & innovative promotional activities like:
The store conducts activities like Pictionary contests & annual fair with Santaclaus aimed at making the place reader friendly
It offers coffee & people can browse through books with music playing soothingly in the background.
Various promotional activities are offered to loyal customers.
Books & shelves are placed & arranged in a manner to suit customer needs comfort & preferences.
Crossword is constantly striving to introduce something new & innovative in order to encourage the customers to frequent the store more often.

Questions:

a. Explain the importance of physical evidence to enhance the service experience & give your suggestion for the same.

b. What are the promotional tools that can be used by crossword to increase its customer base?

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Global Retailing

1. As a Retail Marketing Consultant to Danone Dairy Corporation, you are expected to prepare a report explaining all major issues that a firm planning to enter any overseas market needs to consider.

2. Mr. Shah of Digiworks, USA is looking to develop and operate a local Online Food ordering App, like foodpanda.com and swiggy.com what research considerations would you tell your International Market Research Agency to work upon?

3. E-Commerce portals like Amazon.in are now offering Grocery Shopping as a Category too, which increases their operations, but also expands their consumer base.

a. How will information technology benefit the consumers but also be risky for them?

b. What are the advantages of information technology that Amazon.in can use to improve its operations?

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International Banking and Foreign Exchange Management

1. RBI allows 100% FDI in regulated financial services in October 2016. What are the impacts of this move on Indian economy? Will it help for financial inclusion?

2. Mr. Mahesh Singh is an Indian presently working in Canada, his parents are staying in Delhi he want to transfer Rs.25,000 per month to his parents regularly. Suggest him various way to do so. What are the different types of Bank Account he can open in Indian Bank located in India? Explain in detail.

3. MUMBAI, MAY 19: Consumers of financial services such as banking and insurance are unlikely to be affected despite the Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council fixing the GST rate higher at 18 per cent. Some tax experts believe that the input credits that service providers will get under GST will be passed on to consumers, thereby offsetting the higher GST rate. Currently, financial services are taxed at 15 per cent. S Ravi, Practising Chartered Accountant, said, Though the GST is pegged at 18 per cent, financial service providers will get the benefit of input credits. In service tax. the input credits are limited. So, under the GST regime, there will be an element of balancing that will happen and the end consumer will not be impacted. Input (tax) credit allows a service provider to lower the tax its owes the government by allowing it to claim a credit on what it has paid on inputs. The impact of GST will be neutral in the short-run, Ravi said, adding that in the medium to long run, it will be beneficial to entities in the financial services sector as well as their customers. Bank of Baroda Executive Director Mayank Mehta said, We floated an RFP (request for proposal) to engage a consultant to help us (with GST implementation). I don t think it (GST) will have any impact on the customer...
More for forex conversion
Sachin Menon, National Head, Indirect Tax, KPMG in India said NRIs may end up paying more on foreign exchange conversion. The maximum GST charges on conversion of foreign currency have gone up from 7,000 to 60,000. This can hurt NRIs, especially those working in Gulf countries, who earns low wages and make remittances to their families, he said. Banks are also up against challenges such as multiple registrations and multiple transactions across States, dealing with transaction-wise invoice, and issues relating to valuation on services from certain centralised services like IT and call centres. But a majority of the financial services players said the negative impact would only be in the short term.
Mohit Sahney, Founder at Finova Capital, said, Since financial services form the backbone of growth in the economy, the government should have kept it at the previous rate of 15 per cent. However, given the fact that GST is going to boost the entire economy, the slightly increased cost will nullify in the medium to long run. Rishi Gupta, MD & CEO, Fino Paytech, a payments company and a future payments bank, said there will be increase in compliance requirements at bank branches. This is a challenge that banks need to gear up to, including the impact on cost of services to the customers, he added.
SOURCE: Business Line

A. What are the challenges for the Banking Industry due to GST?

B. How Bank earns money in Forex transactions? What will be the impact on income due to GST? How they can increase their income even after GST?

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Retail Store Operation and Inventory Management

1. From a proprietorship Mobile Handset street shop you are upgrading your business to a branded Electronics Store (like Croma) with an Authorised Service Centre (Multiple brands) too. Explain how you will plan the Inventory Management of such a store.

2. The implementation of strategy requires retail managers to be aware of the financial implications of their decisions. In the capacity of a Category Manager for the branded Electronics store (like Croma) and based on the various ratios commonly used to assess financial performance, how would you go about improving each of the ratios, so that overall financial performance improves?

3. The advent and penetration of digitization has speeded the making of all retail outlets extremely efficient. (Name the retail store of your choice to answer the questions).

a. Which data-driven functions (like Inventory, Accounts etc.) has digitization impacted the most and how?

b. How has the various security tools and techniques impacted various jobs like Administrative Head, Cashier, Store Staff etc.) been enhanced by digitization?

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