Attention to MBA III Semester Students (2014-16 Batch)

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?