Attention to MBA 1st Year 2nd Semester Students

MID-2 IMPORTANT QUESTIONS

Subject: HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

1.  Write short notes and its characteristics on

a) Industrial Disputes Act 1947, b) Workmen Compensation Act, c) Minimum Wages Act,

d) Factories Act and e) Mines Act.

2. Explain the concept of Performance Appraisal and its techniques?

3. Explain Career Management & Talent Management and how it is useful to the employees?

4. Explain the meaning, objectives &components of “compensation”? Explain the “Factors affecting the compensation”?

5. What is Employee Relation? Explain the Collective Bargaining Process?

6. What are the employee Safety and Health? Explain the work place health hazards problems and remedies of Employees?

Subject: MARKETING MANAGEMENT

1.      Write short notes on a) Market Segmentation b) Positioning Maps c) Marketing Channels d) Marketing Communication and e) WOM.

2.      What is the requirement for effective segmentation and market targeting?

3.      Analyze the Business and Consumer markets?

4.      How do you create customer value, satisfaction and loyalty?

5.      What is product mix? Explain different methods of pricing?

6.      What are roles of marketing channels and value networks?

Subject: FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT

1) Write about a) Trade Credit b) Capitalization, c) Financial Leverage and Operating Leverage,  d) Marketable Securities and e) EBIT-EPS Analysis.

2) What is working capital management? Explain its components of working capital?

3) Discuss about cash management techniques and its process?

4) Explain about capital structure theories and its critical appraisal?

5) What are the factors determining dividend policy? Explain about Corporate Restructuring?

6) What are the importance of current assets management in working capital planning? What are the recommendations of Tandon and Daheja Committee on Working Capital.

Subject:  MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM & ERP

1) Write a short notes

a) Cyber Crime,               b) Cyber Criminal,        c) System Acquisition,                

d) Conceptual Design and           e) Detailed system design.

2)  Explain IS security and control?

3)  Explain the concept of system analysis and design.

4)  Explain the classifications of Cyber Criminals?

5)  Explain the concept of information system planning.

6)  Discuss Cyber crimes and Indian ITA 2000? Explain system development stages?

Subject: BANKING, INSURANCE AND RISK MANAGEMENT

1. Write a short notes on

a) Role of Agents & Brokers,             b) Principles of  insurance,      c) Risk management Techniques,  

d) Non insurance methods and      e) Life Insurance.

2.  What is Insurance and explain its need, importance and its characteristics?

3.  Explain the branches of insurance and its types of insurance products?

4.      Explain the Regulatory and legal frame work governing the insurance sector?

5.      Briefly explain the history of IRDA and its functions?

6.      What is Risk and explain its types of risk in business? Explain the risk management process and its methods?

Subject: QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS FOR BUSINESS DECISIONS

1. Explain and illustrate the following principles of decision making:

  a) Laplace      b) Maximin & Maximax    c) Hurwicz  & Savage    d) Expectation.

2.      Explain the procedure of the MODI for testing the optimality in Transportation Problem? Draw the flow chart of Schematic representation of MODI (modified distribution method).

3. A)    Write the necessary steps to solve the assignment problem using Hungarian Assignment problem.

B) Solve the assignment problem using HAM. The information is following

Time Taken(in minutes) by 4 workers JOB A B C D WORKER 1 45 40 51 67 2 57 42 63 55 3 49 52 48 64 4 41 45 60 55

                 

4.      A machine X costs Rs. 5,000. Its maintenance cost is Rs 1,000 in each of the first four years and then it increases by Rs. 200 every year. Assuming that the machine has no salvage value and the maintenance cost is incurred in the beginning of each year, determine the optimal replacement time for the machine assuming that the time value of money is 10% p.a.

5.      A large establishment has an installation with 1000 bulbs of a certain type. From the past data it has observed the failure rates of these bulbs as detailed here:

End of the week	1	2	3	4	5
Probability of failure to date	0.10	0.25	0.50	0.70	1.00

6.      Solve the problem using Group replacement method.

A) Explain the Schematic presentation of the Method of solution of “Two-Person Zero-Sum Game”.

B) The following is the pay-off matrix of a game being played by A and B. Determine the optimal    strategies for the players and the value of the game.

		B's Strategy
		B1	B2
A's Strategy	A1	8	-7
	A2	-6	4

7.      What is queuing theory? What types of questions are sought to be answered in analyzing a queuing system? Illustrate some queuing situations and its queuing models with suitable diagrams.