Attention to MBA IV Semester (2015-17 Batch)

MID IMPORTANT QUESTIONS

Subject: Entrepreneurship

1.       Write short Notes on

a)      Entrepreneurial Journey,   b) Entrepreneurial Ego,   c) Entrepreneurial Motivation,

d)      Nature of Corporate Entrepreneur and e) Entrepreneurship.

2.       Explain the Revolution impact and evolution of Entrepreneurship?

3.       Briefly explain the approaches to entrepreneurship and its process?

4.       Describe the 21^st century trends in entrepreneurship?

5.       Explain the individual entrepreneurial mindset and personality? Describe the corporate Entrepreneurial Mindset?

6.       Explain the conceptualization of Corporate Entrepreneurship strategy and sustaining corporate entrepreneurship?

       Subject: Management of Technology

1.      Write a short notes on 

a)      Technological Innovation     b) DCF       c) Project selection formulae   

d) Allocation of Resources of R& D    and  e) Techniques of Evaluating R&D Ventures.

2.   Explain the need for a conceptual approach and its process and factors contributing to successful  technological innovations?

3.   Briefly explain the strategies for R&D and its allocations?

4.   Explain the NPD and its techniques for creative problem solving?

5.   What are the need for Cost effectiveness and explain the R&D Financial Forecasts?

6.   Explain the risk factors in financial analysis? Explain the selection and implementation of R&D strategy?

Subject: Retailing Management (MKTG)

1.       Write short notes on

a)      Rural Marketing & E-tailing, b) Ethics in retailing, c) Service in retailing, d) FDI retailing and 

e)    Global Retailing

2.       Define Retail and Retailing? Explain its history, types & functions?

3.       Explain utilities and theories of retailing and Structure of Indian retail industry? Explain the retailing in Asia and retailing in Europe?

4.       How do we understand the shoppers & shopping in a socio cultural contest briefly explain with suitable example?

5.       Explain the shopping process, shopping behavior and demographics of Indian shoppers?

6.       Explain the Psychographic profile of Indian shoppers, lifestyle of Indian shoppers and shopping patterns in India?

Subject: Service Marketing

1.      Write short notes on

a)      Service & Technology, b) Service Marketing Mix, c) Provider Gap & Closing Gap and

d) Service Recovery e) Customer Gap.

2.      What are Services? Why Services Marketing? What are the characteristics of Services compared to goods?

3.      What are the gaps model of Service Quality? Explain the role of services in modern economy?

4.      Explain the Consumer Behaviour in Services and consumer expectations in Service? What are the consumer perceptions of service?

5.      How do we understand the consumer requirements and explain the building customer relationships?

6.      Explain the listening to customers through research?

Subject: International Marketing

1.      Write short notes on

a)      Exim Policy, b) Types of Economics, c) Types of Markets, d) International trades and

e)    Technological Environments.

2.      What do you mean by International Marketing and its scope and features?

3.      What is the difference between the domestic and international marketing? Explain the International Marketing theories?

4.      Explain the types of environment of global markets?

5.      What are the barriers in goods and services in International trade?

6.      Explain the IKEA Catalogue and Mc. Donalds and obesity?

Subject: Strategic Investment and Financing Decision (FINANCE)

1.      Write short notes on

a)      Concepts of risk and uncertainty, b) Capital rationing Vs. Portfolio, c) Lorie Savage Paradox d) Decision trees and e) Portfolio Risk & diversified projects.

2.      Explain Monte Carlo approach to simulation? Describe the Risk analysis in investment decisions?

3.      Explain Risk adjusted rate of return and certainty equivalents and probability distribution of cash flows?

4.      Describe payback period, surplus payback and bail-out payback techniques?

5.      Explain the project abandonment decisions and describe the impact of inflation on capital budgeting decisions?

6.      Differentiate between multiple IRR and modified IRR?

Subject : International Financial Management

1.      Write Short notes on

a)      Balance of Payments, b) Indian BOP trends, c) Flexible Exchange rate regime, d) Breton woods system & e) Evaluation of Floating rates.

2.      Explain the recent changes and challenges in IFM? Explain the International Business methods?

3.      What do you mean by IFM and its importance, nature and scope of IFM?

4.      Explain the concept of International flow of funds and agencies of it?

5.      Explain the role of Economic Monitory Union?

6.      What are the factors affecting the International Trade flows? Explain the current exchange rate arrangements?

Subject: Financial Derivatives

1.     a) Define Derivative,        b) Hedging Strategies,       c) Currency futures and forwards,                 d) Swap Market,                e) Option Markets

2.      What are the Developments and growth of Derivative markets? And explain its types?

3.      Explain the Fundamental linkages between spot & Derivative markets and its uses?

4.      What are its roles in markets and uses and misuses of derivatives? Explain the structure of Forward and Future Markets?

5.      How to determine the forward and future prices in derivatives markets explain with suitable example?

6.      What are the mechanics of future markets? And how it is uses and explains its interest rate futures?

Subject: Compensation & Reward Management (HR)

1.      Write short notes on

a)      Job Analysis, b) Job Evaluation, c) Pay for Performance, d) Person based structures &

e)    Internal  Alignment.

2.      Explain Pay Model strategy?

3.      Describe Job Evaluation with suitable case?

4.      Explain the designing pay levels? Defining competitiveness?

5.      Explain the evidence pay for performance plans?

6.      Explain Incentives in the club house?

Subject: International Human Resource Management

1.      Write short notes on

a)      Employee Relations, b) Recruitment and Selection, c) Training and Development,

d)   Performance Management & e) Remuneration and Repatriation.

2.   Define IHRM? Explain its importance, nature, scope and components of IHRM?

3.   Explain the strategies and functions of IHRM? Difference between Domestic HRM and IHRM?

4.   What are the approaches of  International Recruitment? Explain briefly?

5.   What are the factors effecting in expatriate selection process? Explain its technical abilities?

6.    Explain the approaches to the study of employment policies across countries?

Subject: Leadership & Change Management

1.      Write short notes on

a)      Trait approach to leadership,     b) Path-Goal theory,    c) Ohio state studies,    d) Michigan studies and e) Blake and Mouton’s Managerial Grid

2.      Define Leadership and its components? Difference between Leadership & Management?

3.      Explain Trait Approach to leadership and its strengths, criticisms and applications?

4.      How does the skill approach works? Explain its Strengths, criticisms and applications?

5.      Describe Continency theory? Explain Leadership stylesand its strengths and criticism?

6.      What are the applications of contingency approach? Explain Path-Goal theory and its strengths, criticisms and applications?

Subject: E-Business (IT)

1.      Write short notes on

a)      E-business structure, b) E-business Model, c) E-business an e-commerce, d) Establishing E-business and e) E-business Design.

2.      Define Electronic Business and how it understands the new internet economy and business?

3.      Explain E-business an E-commerce and its features, advantages?

4.      Explain Business Environment and how it will help for establishing E-business?

5.      Explain the case study of B2C model at Ardhana tours?

6.      How IT infra structure requirement of E-business models with suitable example?

Subject: Cyber Security

1.      Write short notes on

a)      Mobile and Wireless devices, b) Proxy servers and Anonymizers, c) Phishing, d) Buffer overflow and   e) SQL Injection.

2.      Define Cyber Crime? Explain the Trend Mobility and Authentication service security? Explain Security policies in handling mobile in organizational measurement?

3.      Explain Mobile Phone security Implications for Organizations and how it measures in mobile computing era?

4.      Explain tools and methods used in cyber crime? What is Password cracking and key loggers & spy wares?

5.      Explain the virus and worms in cyber crime with suitable example? What are the attacks on wireless networks?

6.      Describe the Trojan horse and Backdoors? What is Steganography?

Subject: Information System Control and Audit

1.      Write short notes on

a)      Audit Standards, b) AICPA Proannoucement, c) Audit Budget, d) Documenting results and

e)    Preliminary review.

2.      Explain Audit and review the role of Information Technology? What are the need for IT audit function?

3.      Explain Audit Standards and its importance? What is the role of the IT Auditor in Legal implication?

4.      Explain the Audit process in IT Environment and Risk Assessment?

5.      What is Audit Budget and explain its objectives and context?

6.      Explain the Field work and implementating audit methodology with suitable case?