MBA III Sem I Mid Important Questions

Subject: Entrepreneurship & Good Governance

1.   Define Entrepreneurship and explain basic qualities and skills of an entrepreneur.

2.   Explain the types of ownerships?

3.   Explain the role of the government in entrepreneur development.

4.   Discuss about entrepreneur scenario in India and abroad.

5.   Explain the major steps in product development?

6.   Explain the concept of generation of new entry opportunity.

Subject: Cost and Management Accounting

1.      What is costing? Why controlling of cost is required for a business?

2.      Explain the Proforma of Cost Sheet.

3.      Management Accounting, Cost Accounting and financial Accounting. Discuss major differences among these three.

4.      What are the Overheads in Costing? Explain types of Overheads.

5.      Differentiate Management accounting and cost accounting

6.      Define unit costing, job costing and cost sheet.

Subject: Management of Technology

1.   Explain the process of technological innovation.

2.   Explain the process involved in new product development.

3.   What are the techniques for creative problem solving?

4.   Explain the resource allocation to R&D and R&D strategy in decision making process.

5.   Briefly describe the need for cost effectiveness of R&D projects.

6.   How the DCF technique will use to evaluate R&D projects.

Subject: Strategic Management

1.   Define the strategic Management? What are the elements of SM?

2.   Dimensions of Strategic Management.

3.   What is the importance of Strategic Management? Write the benefits and drawbacks of SM?

4.   Explain the SWOT analysis.

5.   What is BCG Matrix, How it will be useful for business organization?

6.   Explain the Porter’s Five Forces Model.

Subject: Consumer Behavior

1.   Explain the concept of consumer behavior and evolution of consumer behavior.

2.   Explain the concept of consumer motivation, perception and personality.

3.   Discuss Attitude formation and Attitude change.

4.   What is the role of cultural environment in consumer behavior?

5.   Define the role of family influences and reference group’s influences with examples.

6.    Define market segments and marketing strategies.

Subject: Logistics & Supply Chain Management

1.   Define SCM? What are its objectives and Importance of SCM?

2.   Explain the process of Supply Chain Management.

3.   Explain the factors influencing distribution network design.

4.   What are the various models for facility location and capacity allocation?

5.   Explain about designing the Supply chain network?

6.     Discuss about Logistics, Aggregate Planning and Demand Forecasting in SCM?

Subject: Security Analysis &Portfolio Management

1.    What is Security? Explain about different securities.

2.   What is Capital Asset Pricing Model?

3.   Risk and Return. Explain these two factors in Investment Decisions.

4.   Explain the Markowitz Portfolio theory?

5.   What is Commodity market? Explain about two major commodity exchanges in India.

6.   Differences between the Capital Market and Money Market?

Subject: Recruitment & Selection

1.   How to make recruitment efforts succeed.

2.   Describe workers expectation and recruitment sources.

3.   What is the role of international electronic recruitment, electronic web sources?

4.   Explain the Job description & reviewing the application and resume.

5.   Distinguish between proactive and reactive recruitment.

6.    Describe innovative recruitment sources.

Subject: Business Intelligence  

1.      What is Business Intelligence? How it will be useful to the business side. Discuss how success of business Impact.

2.      Explain Components of BI Architecture  and Fronted? Differences between BI and Business Value.

3.      Write short notes on BI Market query & reporting, dash boards and performance management.

4.      Discuss about Data Management and BI organizing for success?

5.      Explain about Enterprises Vs Department BI and Agile Development Techniques.

6.       Write short notes on Business IT partnership and Hybrid IT business person and Relevance to continental Gate Agents.

Subject: Marketing communications

1.   What is the role of advertising in decision making process?

2.   Define marketing communications and explain integrated marketing communications?

3.   Explain advertising planning and advertising positioning.

4.   Explain DAGMAR approach to set advertising objectives.

5.   Explain media function and basic media strategy.

6.   How the organization allocates the budget to advertising.

Subject: Financial Institutions, Markets and Services

1.      What is SEBI? Explain its constitution and scope of the organization.

2.      Explain the role of Commercial banks in India.

3.      What is IRDA? Write the challenges facing the Insurance sectors.

4.      Describe the role of NABARD? How it is useful to Agricultural Industry?

5.      What are the objectives of monetary policy?

6.      Explain the Financial system in India.

Subject: Management of Industrial Relations 

1.   Explain about economy and labour force in India.

2.   Define industrial relations? What are its natures and objective of Industrial relations?

3.   What is collective bargaining? What is the process of collective bargaining?

4.   Define Trade Union? What are its objectives and provision of the act of Trade Union?

5.   What are the levels of collective bargaining and agreement?

6.   What are the negotiation techniques?

Subject: Project Management

1.      Define Project Management? What is the use of project management?

2.      Explain the Project stages in brief.

3.      Explain the project screening and selection.

4.      What is stakeholder management? Write about organization stakeholders.

5.      Describe the work breakdown structure.

6.       Explain the Organization culture.

Subject: Retailing Management

1.   What are the functions of Retailing management?

2.   Describe the Strategic retail planning process.

3.   Explain the structure of Retail organization

4.   What are the factors affecting the merchandising functions?

5.   Explain the Retail management decision process.

6.    Write down the steps involved in implementing an Advertising plan.

Subject: Training and Development

1.   What is training strategy? What are the components of training strategy?

2.   What is training? What is its importance, purpose, roles of training?

3.   Discuss about the overview of training process.

4.   Briefly discuss about Program designing process.

5.   Differences between Training and Development.

6.   What are the various steps involved in program design?

Subject: Derivatives

1.      What are Derivatives and Explain the Growth and Development of Derivative markets.

2.      Explain the uses and types of Derivatives?

3.      Discuss about the role of derivative Market and uses and misues of it?

4.      Difference between the Future and Forward Markets and its structures?

5.      Explain the determinations of forward and future prices and Interest rate futures.

6.      Write short note on currency future and forward. Explain about the hedging strategies in forward and future derivatives.

Subject:  Knowledge Management

1.      What is Knowledge Management and Information technology? Explain about the leveraging knowledge and data information.

2.      What are the characteristics and components of organizational knowledge?

3.      What are the measures for meeting the challenges of implementing KM programmes and building knowledge societies?

4.      Explain the Role Information Technology in Knowledge Management systems and its Tools.

5.      Discuss about the effective knowledge management systems through information technology.

6.       Write short notes on ERP and BPR, Data Warehousing and Data Mining.