II MID EXAMS IMPORTANT QUESTIONS
Subject: Production &
Operations Management
1. Write
short notes on
a) Break
Even Analysis b)
Integrated Materials Management
c) Layout
Design Procedures d)
Machine scheduling.
2. What are
the factors influencing Plant location and explain the method of
transformation?
3. Discuss
the Extension of Johnson’s rule in scheduling? What are the types of
scheduling?
4. Explain
the plant layout and its classifications and its advantages and disadvantages?
5. Briefly
explain about the components of integrated materials management and inventory
control?
6. Discuss
about the stores Management and its analysis?
Subject: Strategic Management
1. Write
short notes on
a) Problems
in achieving Acquisition Success b)
Strategic Alliances
c)
Entrepreneurial Implications for strategy d)
Competitive risk with cooperative strategies.
2. Describe
Levels of Diversification and its reasons? Explain the Popularity of Mergers
& Acquisitions strategies?
3. Explain
global strategy? What are the corporate levels with cooperative strategy?
4. Discuss
the strategic competitive outcomes and risk in an international environment?
5. Explain
the structure and controls with organizations?
6. Describe
the evolutionary patterns of the strategy and organizational structure? What
are the leadership implications for strategy?
Subject: Organisational Behaviour
1. Write
short notes on
a) Foundations of Group behaviour b) Challenges to
Leadership construct
c) Self Management and Managing careers d) Power and Polities in Leadership
2. Explain
the Leadership theories briefly? What are the findings and creating Effective
leaders?
3. What are
the conflicts and Negotiations in Organizational structure?
4. Explain
about the change and stress Management in organisational behaviour?
5. Explain
the stages of group development and group properties with its roles, norms and
its status?
6. Explain
about the group decision making and understanding work teams, types of teams?
Subject: Consumer Behaviour
1. Write
short notes on
a) Personality
and Self concept b)
Consumer Motivation and consumer Perception
c) Consumer
attitudes and changing attitudes d)
Consumer Learning and Information processing.
2. Explain the Problem recognition, Search and
Evaluation for consumer decision making?
3. What
are the models of consumer decision making? Explain the purchasing Processes
and Post purchase behaviour?
4.
Explain the consumers and the diffusion of innovations and marketing ethics
towards consumers?
5.
Discuss briefly about the roots of consumerism and marketer responses to
consumer issues?
6.
Explain the consumer safety, consumer information and consumer
responsibilities?
Subject:
Sales and Distribution
1. Write
a short note on
a)
Recruitment and selection of the sales force b)
Capturing the customer requirements
c)
Designing the marketing channels d)
Designing channels systems
2. Explain
the training the sales force and sales force motivation?
3. Describe
the sales force compensation, control and evaluation?
4. Define
the distribution management and its need for distribution channels? Explain the
distribution channels for rural markets?
5. Explain
the managing channel information systems and reasons for channel conflicts?
6. What are
the ethical issues in sales and distribution management and explain the reasons
for channel conflicts?
Subject:
Integrated Marketing Communication
1. Write a
short note on
a) Personal
Public Relations b)
Publicity and Corporate Advertising
c) Federal
Regulation of Advertising d) Social
aspects of Advertising.
2. Explain
the creative execution in advertising and decision in print? Describe the Big
Idea of creativity?
3. Discuss
about the sales promotion and direct marketing and explain about the execution
on Radio and execution on online and television?
4. What are
the unconventional promotional media and explain?
5. What are
the regulations of Advertising and Promotion in India and explain other
promotional areas in advertising?
6. Explain
the Social and Ethical criticisms of advertising in briefly?
Subject:
Cost and Management Accounting
1. Write a
short note on
a) Standard cost and Standard costing b) Material variance and Labour
variance
c) Zero
based budget d)
Break even analysis.
2. Explain Make or Buy decisions and explain selection of suitable
product mix and desired level of profits?
3. What are the applications of BEP for various business problems and
explain the inter firm comparison and its needs, types and advantages?
4. What is budget & explain the different types of budgets? Explain the introduction to cost audit and
management audit?
5. What are the differences between standard costing vs. budgetary
control, standard costing vs. estimated costing and standard costing vs.
marginal costing?
6. Explain the Sales and Profit variance and steps in budgetary
control?
Subject: Security Analysis
Portfolio Management
1. Write a
short note on
a) Bond
Analysis b)
CAGR
c) EVA and
MVA d)
Mutual Fund and NAV.
2. What are the types of bonds and explain about the interest rates and
its term structures?
3. What are the types of Mutual funds schemes and its structure?
Explain the trends in Indian mutual funds?
4. Explain the equity Analysis and Valuation? Discuss about the Balance
sheet analysis in equity valuation models?
5. Explain about the risk and return and performance evaluation models?
6. Define Derivatives? Explain different types of derivative markets?
Subject:Financial Institutions, Markets & Services
1. Write a
short note on
a)
Investment banking functions b)
Underwriting
c) Stock
broking and credit rating d)
Venture Capital Financing and Housing finance
2. What are the structure and functions of Call Money market and
government securities market?
3. Explain about the SEBI and its regulations of primary market and
secondary markets?
4. Discuss about the consumer credit and hire purchase finance? Define
Factoring and its functions, advantages?
5. Discuss about the investment banking activities? Explain about the
debentures, trustees, portfolio managers in investment banking?
6. What are the challenges faced by investment bankers? Describe the
Organisation structure and its listing trading and settlement?
Subject: Performance Management
1. Write a short note on
a) Employee Development b) Management skills
c) Competency mapping d) Job Analysis.
2. Describe the
performance management and employee development briefly with suitable example?
3. Explain
about the reward systems and legal issues?
4. Explain
about the Managing Team performance and performance management skills?
5. Discuss
about the bench marking and six sigma?
Illustration?
6. What do you mean by Balance sheet score
card in performance management? Explain about the coaching and Mentoring
Pygmalion Effect?
Subject: Training and Development
1. Write a short note on
a) OJT and CBT b)
Cross cultural training
c) Competency training d)
Rational for evaluation.
2. Explain
the matching methods with outcomes in training?
3. Describe
the Lectures and Demonstrations in training? Explain the games and simulations
in training?
4. Explain
the development of training and its implementation? What are the transfer of
training and its major players in training and development?
5. Explain
the areas of organizational training?
6. What are
the resistance to training evaluation and its types of evaluations?
Subject: Management of Industrial
Relations
1. Write a short note on
a) Collective Bargaining b)
Conciliation
c) Arbitration and adjudication d)
workers Participation.
2. Explain
the industrial dispute act 1947? What is Labour Welfare Work and Labour Welfare
Officer?
3. Explain
the Payment of Wages Act 1936 and the Payment of bonus act 1965?
4. Describe
the wage policy and wage regulation machinery? What is Wage legislation?
5. Explain
the factories act 1948 and mines act 1952?
6. Briefly
discuss about the industrial relations and Technological change?
Subject: Business Intelligence
1. Write a short note on
a) Connecting BI systems b)
Issues in legality
c) Business rule system d)
Artificial neural networks for data mining.
2. Define
Data mining concepts and its applications? Explain the web mining and contents
and structure mining?
3. Explain
the text and Web Mining and Natural language processing?
4. Explain
the value preposition of business rules? What are the business rules approach
and its sources?
5. Explain
the BI implementation and integration implementation?
6. What are
the issues of legality and privacy and ethics?
Explain the social networking and BI?
Subject: Enterprise Resource
Planning
1. Write a short note on
a) IS/IT Management results b)
Financial Module in ERP systems
c) Production & Material Management d)
System Architecture and ERP.
2. Explain
the Risk Identification analysis and system projects? What are the
demonstrations of the system?
3. Explain
the sales and marketing in ERP? What is the Failure Method in ERP?
4. What are
the management control process in sales and marketing in ERP? Explain the
customer relationship management in ERP Systems?
5. What is
the control process on production and manufacturing in ERP? And explain the
Accounting and finance control processes?
6. What is
Production module in ERP? Explain the supply chain management & e-market
place in ERP and e-supply chain and ERP?
Subject: Decision Support system
1. Write a short note on
a) Models in DSS b)
Metadata
c) DSS Development process d)
Group Ware products.
2. Explain
the DSS software tools and standard package? What is Building DSS and
overcoming Resistance of change?
3. What are
the specialized tools and Generators? Explain the programming language for DSS?
4. What is
Group Decision Support System? What is the difference between Group Vs
Individual activities in DSS?
5. Explain
the types of Group DSS? What are DW and its concepts?
6. What is DW database and its structure and
explain how the getting the data into the data warehouse?
