ATTENTION TO MBA 2-1 STUDENTS (2014-15 BATCH)

MID IMPORTANT QUESTIONS

Production & Operations Management

1. A.   Write a short notes Flow shop and Job shop.

    B.  Define System Concept of Production.

    C.  Define Product Design and Analysis.

    D.  What are the advantages of Standardization?

2. Briefly explain POM?

3. Explain New Product Development & its concepts and the steps of Product Design?

4. Define “Process Design”? What are the “Factors Affecting Process Design Decisions”?

5. Explain about “Value Analysis/Value Engineering” and explain Standardization procedure?

6. Write short notes on Capacity consideration, Commercial Plan Transfer and Ergonomic Considerations in Product Design?

Strategic Management

1. A. What is Strategic Management?

    B.  What is Value Chain Analysis?

    C.  Explain Business level strategy?

    D.  What do you mean by Building Core Competencies?

2. Describe Strategic Management and Competitiveness Technology and explain its objectives, vision and mission?

3. Briefly explain Strategic Management process?

4. What is Competitive Rivalry and Dynamics and explain the model of Competitive Rivalry?

5. Explain the Drivers of Competitive actions and responses in competitor Analysis?

6. Explain Porters 5 force Model?

Organisational Behaviour

1. A. Define Organizational Behaviour?

    B. What are the Approaches to O.B?

    C. Define Perception?

    D. Write short notes on Attitudes & Job Satisfaction?

2. What is the importance and nature of Organizational Behaviour and explain the Foundation of O.B?

3. Explain the Model for O.B. and Organization system in Global Environment?

4. Explain Individual Behaviour and characteristics of Biographical Ability?

5. Describe the theories of Personality and Perception? Explain the process of Perception?

6. Explain Motivation from concepts to Application differ? Define Individual Decision making?

Elective - 1

Consumer Behaviour

1. A. Define Consumer Behaviour?

    B. What is Consumer Segmentation?

    C. What is Targeting and Positioning?

    D. Explain Cultural Consumer Behaviour?

2. How to understand the consumer through research process briefly explain?

3. Explain consumer behaviour in a world of economic instability? Define Rural markets?

4. Explain Environmental influences on Consumer behaviour?

5. Write a short note on family and personality, social class and social group?

6. Explain rural consumer behaviour and define branding?

 Cost and Management Accounting

1. A. What do you mean by Cost Analysis and control?

    B.  How do you calculate the machine hour rate? Explain the Direct and indirect expenses?

    C.  Define Unit Costing and Job Costing?

    D.  What is an introduction to activity based costing and Life cycle costing?

2. What are the differences between Management accounting Vs Cost accounting Vs Financial accounting?

3. What is the role of accounting information in planning and control and explain the cost concepts and classification of costs?

4. Explain the format of Cost sheet?

5. What are the treatment of Normal losses and Abnormal losses and explain the inter process profits?

6. Briefly describe the Application of Marginal costing in terms of cost control and Profit Planning?

 Performance Management

1. A. Define Performance Management?

    B.  Write a short note on strategic planning in performance management?

    C.  Explain measurement approach?

    D.  What is gathering performance information?

2. Explain the Performance Management and Reward systems in context?

3. Explain the process of Performance management and what is the performance management strategic planning?

4. Define Performance and choosing a Measurement Approach and explain implementation on performance management system?

5. Explain measuring results and behaviors’?

6. Explain evaluating the appraisal form used by a Grocery Retailer?

Business Intelligence

1. A.  Define Business Intelligence and Architecture of BI?

    B.  Explain the value of BI?

    C.  Define Data Ware Housing and its concepts?

    D.  Explain Performance Dashboard and Score Cards?

2. Explain the Responses and support Models of BI and styles of BI?

3. Describe the Value of BI? What are the Performance metrics and key performance indicators?

4. Explain the Data Ware Housing process and implementation and Administration?

5. Explain the BPM and overview it?

6. Briefly Explain BPM Methodologies and Techniques?

  

Elective – 2

Sales and Distribution Management

1. A. What is sales management?

    B.  What are the selling process, strategies and skills in sales management?

    C.  Define Sales Planning, sales budgeting?

    D.  What is Market cost analysis?

2. Explain the evolution of Sales management and its importance?

3. Explain the types of selling in sales management and differences between selling and marketing?

4. Explain the sales planning process and sales forecasting methods and types of quotas and quota setting procedure?

5. What are the reasons for establishing or revising sales territories and explain routing and scheduling sales persons?

6. What are the methods used for deciding sales budget? Explain modern day sales activities?

Security Analysis and Portfolio Management

1. A. What is Fundamental Analysis?

    B.  What are the investment alternatives?

    C.  Explain Arbitrage Pricing Theory?

    D.  Explain EMH?

2. Describe the Investment Environment in India? And what is Technical Analysis?

3. Explain the Indian financial system in Stock Markets and what the investment alternatives and the investment management process?

4. Define Portfolio Analysis? Explain the returns and risks from investing?

5. Explain Markowitz Portfolio theory and Mean Variance Approach?

6. Briefly describe the Single Index Model – CAPM?

Training and Development

1. A. Define Training and its concepts?

    B. What is Motivation and Performance?

    C. What is TNA Model?

    D. What is design theory?

2. Explain the trends in training and its career opportunities?

3. Explain the Integrating OD and Strategy in training? What is the importance’s of Training?

4. Explain the aligning training design with learning process/

5. Describe the TNA and Design? Explain the organizational constraints and developing objectives?

6. Explain the facilitation of learning and training transfer to the job?

Enterprise Resource Planning

1. A. Define ERP?

    B. what are the measurement of Project impact?

    C. Write a short note on Project Evaluation Technique?

    D. What are the functions of ERP?

2. Explain the foundation for understanding ERP Systems?

3. Briefly describe the Business benefits of ERP/

4. What are the challenges of implementing ERP System? And explain ERP Modules and Historical Development?

5. Explain the information technology selection?

6. Describe the ERP proposal evaluation?

 Elective – 3

Integrated Marketing Communication

1. A. Define Marketing Communication?

    B.  Write a short note on Communication mix?

    C.  How to measure the Communication effectiveness in IMC?

    D.  Explain the Marketing communication budget?

2. Explain the Integrated Marketing Communication?

3. Explain the communication process in IMC?

4. Explain how setting communication objectives differ from IMC?

5. Describe the Evaluating other Promotional tools and Testing Tools and techniques?

6. Explain DAGMAR Approach to setting objectives and measuring advertising effectiveness?

Financial Institutions, Markets and Services

1. A. Explain the structure of financial system and Equilibrium in financial markets?

    B. Explain the role of AMFI?

    C. Explain the indicators of Financial development and economic development/

    D. What are the challenges of Insurance Sector?

2. Explain the Financial Sector reforms after 1991? Describe the monetary policy and techniques of monetary control of RBI?

3. Explain the role and functions of SEBI and RBI?

4. Explain Commercial banks in public and private sectors and its structure and comparative performance?

5. What are the Non Banking financial institutions and its structure, functioning and growth in India?

6. Write a short note on IFCI, IRBI, NABARD, SIDBI, SFC’s, LIC and GIC?

Management of Industrial Relations

1. A. What are the characteristics of union structure in India?

    B.  Explain Unfair Labour Practices?

    C.  Write a short note on Tripartite and Bipartite Bodies?

    D.  Define Grievance Procedure?

2. Explain the Dunlop’s Industrial Relations systems?

3. Explain the characteristics of Indian IR Systems?

4. What is the role of state dispute settlement machinery and its instruments?

5. Describe the causes of Disputes?

6. Describe the Trade unions functions, methods, politics and its types of union?

Decision Support System

1. A. Define DSS?

    B. What are the types of DSS?

    C. Write a short note on DSS Gardware environment?

    D. Write a short note on DSS hierarchy?

2. Briefly explain how DSS evolved and its benefits?

3. Explain systems, information quality and models of DSS? And dataflow diagram information quality?

4. Explain DSS on the centre corporate systems?

5. Explain the Internet and Client/Server computing in DSS?

6. What is DSS on standalone system?