Attention to MBA 2-1 students (2015-17 batch)

MID-1 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?

    E.   Write a short note on Batch manufacturing?

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?

    E.   What do you mean by outsourcing?

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?

Research Methodology

1.A. What do you mean by Research Methodology?

   B. Write a short note on Research Problems?

   C.  What are the types of observation in research methodology?

   D.  Write a short note on Qualitative Research?

   E.   Write a short note on Quantitative Research?

2.  Explain the overview of research methodology and its types? Briefly?

3.  What do you mean by research process and explain the ethics in business research?

4.  Explain the research design and its overview?

5.  Briefly explain the types of research design and validity of research design?

6. Explain the limitation of social science research? What are the types of designs in research?

  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?

    E.  What is Rural 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?

Strategic 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?

    E.   What are the direct and indirect expenses?

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.  Explain the allocation and apportionment of overheads in cost sheet?

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?

    E.   Explain implementation on performance management system?

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? Briefly Explain it?

5. Explain measuring results and behaviours?

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?

    E.  What are the Security issues and future trends BPM?

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?

    E.   Write a short notes on Modern day sales activities?

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 Portfolio Management

1. A. What is investment management and its objectives and its types?

    B.  What do you mean by margin Trading?

    C.  Define Security Analysis and its objectives?

    D.  What are the types of Security analysis?

    E.  What do you mean by Dow Theory and efficient market hypothesis?

2. Describe the Investment Environment in India? What do you mean by investment media and its process?

3. Difference between Investment Vs Speculation and Investment Vs Gambling? Explain the securities trading and settlement and its types of orders?

4.  What are the types of Security analysis and its objectives and believes? Explain the framework for fundamental anyalysis?

5. What are the concept of instrinsic value in Economic Analysis? Explain the Industry life cycle in industry analysis?

6. What is company analysis and its types? Explain the difference between fundamental and technical analysis?

Training for Development

1. A. Define Training and its concepts?

    B. What is Motivation and Performance?

    C. What is TNA Model?

    D. What is design theory?

    E.  What is the training program?

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?

Database Management Systems

1. A. Define DMS?

    B. What are the components of Organizational Memory?

    C. What are data sharing and data bases?

    D. What are the needs for data base planning?

    E.  Write a short notes on hardware and software in DMS?

2. Explain the evaluation of Database Technology File-oriented systems and its need for random access processing information?

3. Explain the sharing data between functional unit’s works and its different levels of users and its locations how it is useful?

4. Explain the role of data base in strategic data base planning? What do you mean by data base project and its development life cycle?

5.  Explain other limitations of Traditional File systems and data base systems?

6.  Explain the hierarchical network model systems and relational database systems? Explain the people and relationship of the four system components?

 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?

    E.   What are the post testing tools and techniques in IMC?

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 exchange rates in banking terms?

    C. Explain the indicators of financial system and economic development?

    D. What are the challenges of Insurance Sector?

    E.  What is the Bank Capital Adequacy norms and Capital market support?

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. Explain the Co-operative banks and its roles and how it is useful to initiatives to strengthen in govt policies?

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?

    E.  Write a short note on Right to strike and Major strikes?

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?

    E.  What are the Generalizing DSS Categories?

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?