Attention to MBA 2nd Year 2nd Semester Students

II MID IMPORTANT QUESTIONS

ENTERPRENEURSHIP

1. Write short notes on

a. Strategic planning,                                                  b. Intellectual property protection-Patents,

c. Copyrights - Trademarks and Trade secrets             d. Formulation of the entrepreneurial Plan and e) Feasibility Criteria approach.

2. Explain entrepreneurial Imagination and Creativity? And explain the nature of the creativity process?

3. Describe creating new ventures and Acquiring an Established entrepreneurial venture? Explain the Franchising and its disadvantages of Franchising.

4. What are the legal challenges of Entrepreneurship? Explain the challenges of new venture start ups and poor financial understanding?

5. Describe the critical factors for new venture developments? And explain the evaluation process.

6. Explain the strategic perspectives in entrepreneurship? What are the strategic positioning and business stabilization? And explain the unique managerial concern of growing ventures?

MANAGEMENT OF TECHNOLOGY

1.Write a short notes on

a)R&D, b)R&D program planning & control, c) Portfolio Planning, d) Project planning and control and e) NPD

2.   Discuss about project termination? What are the types of project termination?

3.   Definition of technological forecasting & its framework of technological forecasting methods.

4.   What are the classifications of forecasting techniques & what are its uses & its forecasting system inputs & outputs.

5.   What is transfer of technology?  Discuss about modes of technology transfer.

6.   Explain about negotiation for price of MOT & its process and pricing of technology.

STRATEGIC INVESTMENT AND FINANCING DECISIONS

1.      Write short notes on

a) Leasing Vs. Operating Risk                                    b) Borrowing vs. Purchasing

c) Hire purchase and Installment decisions                d) Mergers and Acquisitions and

e) NPV mean variance analysis.

2.      Explain the Discounted pay back, post pay back, surplus life and surplus pay back, Bail-out pays back, Return on Investment, Equivalent Annual Cost.

3.      Explain Hertz Simulation and Hillier approaches? Explain the significance of information and data bank in project selections.

4.      What are Leasing Risk Management & its advantages? Explain Leasing decision with a suitable example?

5.      Explain basic issues in mergers and acquisitions and its strategy? And what are their diversifications?

6.      What are the theories of mergers and its types? Explain the government guidelines for takeover and its problems on mergers & acquisitions?

INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT

1.       Write short notes on

a) Foreign Direct Investment,                         b) Euro Currency Market & Euro credit market,   

c) International Capital budgeting,                 d) Euro bond market, International Stock market &

e) Equity and Bond financing.

2.  Explain foreign exchange market and its functions and its structures. What are the major participants of foreign exchange market?

3.  What are the types of transactions and settlement dates of Forex markets? Explain the foreign exchange quotations?

4.  What are the process of arbitrage and its speculations in the forward markets? Explain the currency futures and options markets, International fisher effect?

5.  Explain the factors influencing exchange rates and its relationship between inflation and interest rates and exchange rates?

6.  Explain the payment methods of international trade and trade finance methods? What are the EXIM policy and its regulations and guidelines?

FINANCIAL DERIVATIVES

1. Write short notes on

a) Futures and Options,     b) Swaps,     c) MCX,      d) NCDEX &             e) Currency Options.

2.  Distinguish between Options and Futures? What is the structure of Options Market?

3.  What are the Principles of Option Pricing and Option Pricing Models: Binomial Model, The Black – Scholes Merton Model?

4.  What are the NCDEX roles, Functions & Trading?

5.   Explain the concept and Nature of Swaps and Evolution of Swap Market?

6.  What are the major types of Swaps? What are the features of Swaps?

COMPENSATION AND REWARD SYSTEM

1.      Write short notes on

a) International pay systems                           b) Retirement Benefits,

c) Compensation of Special groups                d) Statutory Benefits including Health Care and

e) Performance Appraisal.

2.      Describe the Performance Appraisals and its benefits determination process?

3.      What are the Union roles in wage and Salary administration?

4.      Describe the government and legal issues in compensation public sector pay management: making it work?

5.      What is communicating by copier explain with suitable case?

6.      What is making policies and practices that work with suitable case?

INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

1.Write a short notes on

a) Collective Bargaining, b) Participative Management, c) Quality of Work life,

d) Cross Convergence and  e) Exit Policy and practices.

2. Define Virtual Organizations and explain its features, types, advantages and disadvantages?

3. Describe Impact of Globalization on Employment briefly?

4. What are the responses to Hr practices across the world and its implication for mncs?

5. How the global managers and future managers are response to universalization of HR Principles & Policies?

6. What are the challenges of globalization and implications of managing people and leveraging HR for completitive advantages?

LEADERSHIP AND CHANGE MANAGEMENT

1.      Write short notes on

a) Transformational Leadership,         b) Organisational culture and Management of change,

c) Group, Team and Individual level change,             d) Change Communication and

e) Management of change and Technological Change

2. Explain the ethics and managing change? What are its change agents and agency?

3. What are Employee relations and its involvement strategies of management change?

4.   What is transformational leadership charisma and explain its model? How does the transformational leadership work? Explain its strength, criticism, applications?

5.   Define servant Leadership and explain its historical basis and its characteristics?

6. Explain the Downsizing and the management of change and its evaluating and promoting change?

RETAILING MANGEMENT

1.      Write short notes on

a) SCM,           b) Retail Logistics Management,        c) Merchandising & Assortment Plan,

d) store layout and design and           e) Layouts of e-tailers.

2.      Explain the Retail buying behaviour and its objectives, organization buying retailing buying behavior? What are the models of buying behavior and its responsibilities?

3.      Briefly explain the managing retail operations?

4.      Explain the classifications of formats?

5.      Briefly discuss about the pricing and supply chain management with its strategies, objectives and policies?

6.      Describe the evolution of retail competition and its future changes?

SERVICES MARKETING

1.      Write short notes on

a) Service Innovation and design-challenges,                b) Customer’s roles in service delivery

c) Integrated Services Marketing communications,       d) Managing demand and capacity and

e) service blueprinting.

2. What are the need for coordination and five categories of strategies to match service promises with delivery?

3. Explain the three key ways that service prices are different for customers.

4. What is the service innovation and design and challenges, types of service innovations?

5. Discuss the Delivering service through intermediaries and electronic channels.

6. “Relationship between Employee satisfaction, customer satisfaction and market share” case theory.

INTERNATIONAL MARKETING

1.      Write short notes on

a) Negotiation with customers and selection method,            b) Promotion Strategies,

c) SWOT Analysis of target markets,                                     d) Pricing strategies and

e) Role of culture in Market selection.

2. Discuss Global vision through market research?

3. Explain the segmentation product & services decisions for consumers and business?

4. Explain the International trade agreements and world market stages.

5. Describe the E-Marketing Channels organization & controlling of the global marketing programme?

6. Describe the assessing global market opportunity with suitable case theory?

E-BUSINESS

1.      Write short notes on

a) Risk Management,                                      b) Business Continuity Planning,

c) Web sire Defacement                                  d) Security audit and Penetration Testing and

e) Application Integration.

2.       What are the software programs to create e-business plans? Briefly?

3.       Explain Phases/Aspects of E-business and its marketing and sales strategies?

4.       Describe Website and Portal Management?

5.       Explain E-business Applications and its characteristics? Explain various domains in applications?

6.       Describe project palming approach for e-business applications and its integrations

CYBERSECURITY

1.      Write short notes on

a) Organizational implications,                       b) Cost of cybercrimes and IPR issues,

c) Social Media marketing                  d) Web threats for organizations and

e) Techno legal challenges with evidence from hand held devices.

2.       What do you understand the computer forensic and explain its historical background and analysis of e-mail digital forensic life cycle?

3.       Explain Network forensic and setting up a computer forensic laboratory and its relevance of the OSI 7 Layer model to computer forensic?

4.       Describe the forensic of Hand and its legal challenges with evidence from hand and held devices?

5.       Explain the computer forensic from compliance perspective? Explain the protecting people privacy in the organizations?

6.       Explain the forensic best practices for organizations with suitable case?

INFORMATION SYSTEM CONTROL AND AUDIT

1. Write short notes on

a) Demand Management                     b) Architecture and standards

c) Business architecture                      d) Application and information architecture and

e) Auditor Productivity tools?

2. Explain computer assistance audit tools and flowcharting techniques?

3. Describe generalizing audit software and its computer forensic?

4. Explain managing IT audits and its career development and planning in evaluating it audit quality?

5. Explain criteria for IT audit quality and its new millennium? What is the code of ethics and professional standards of IT audit?

6.  Explain Architecture Functions?