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ASSIGNMENT MBA – IST YEAR

M.B.A. 1st YearAssignment - 1

Management Process and Organisational Behaviour

Note : Select any one group of assignment. All Questions are compulsory.

Assignment Group 1Q.1 What is Strategic Management. Explain its, Stages?

Q.2 What is Five forces Model. Explain?

Q.3 Explain Buyers needs?

Q.4 What is value chains? Explain its categories?

Q.5 Explain the powers of buyers & suppliers?

Q.6 How we can explain industry life cycle?

Assignment Group 2Q.1 Discuss two types of differentiation?

Q.2 Explain the skill and resources of an ideal organisation?

Q.3 How to diversify? Explain?

Q.4 How to structure an organisation?

Q.5 In what ways can a part of a corporation benefit an individual business unit?

Q.6 What is force field analysis?


Quantitative Techniques


Assignment Group 1Q.1 What do you mean by Research? In this context explain the difference between

Experiment & Survey.

Q.2 There are 18 members of a cricket club in which 2 are wicket keepers, 5 are bowlers

and the remaining are batsmen. In how many ways a team of 11 players can be

formed, if there is one wicketkeeper & at least 3 blowers.

18 511

3

Q.3(a) What do you understand by t-test and Fishers F-test? Why should there be different

formula for testing significance difference in mean when the sample are

(a) Small (b) Large

t- f-

(b) A sample of 23 pairs of values gives a correlation cofficient 0.52 and another of 28

pairs has a correlation coefficient 0.71. Do the sample correlations differ

significantly?

23 0.52 28 0.71

Q.4 Find out the coefficient of correlation of the following data by

(i) Karl Pearson's method

(ii) least square method.

x : 51 63 73 46 50 60 47 36 60

y : 49 72 74 44 58 66 50 30 35

x : 51 63 73 46 50 60 47 36 60

y : 49 72 74 44 58 66 50 30 35

Q.5 A grocer is faced with the problem of how to buy cakes in order to meet the Day's

demand. The grocer prefer not a sell day old goods in competition with fresh product,

left over cakes are therefore, a complete loss. On the other hand, if a customer

desires a cake and all of them have been sold, the disappointed customer will buy

elsewhere and sales will be lost. The grocer has therefore collected information on

the past sales on a selected 100 days periods shown in table below.

Sales per day No. of days Probability

25 10 0.10

26 30 0.30

27 50 0.50

28 10 0.10

A cake costs Rs. 80 and sells Rs. 100. Construct the pay off (profits) table and the

opportunity loss table. Write your decision, for the grocer under the following

condition to buy the number of cakes.

(i) Maximum Principle (ii) Minimum Principle (iii) Laplace Principle

(iv) by EMV (v) by EOL

100

25 10 0.10

26 30 0.30

27 50 0.50

28 10 0.10

80 100

(i) (ii) (iii)

(iv) EMV (v) EOL

Q.6 Write short notes on the following

(1) Statistical Quality Control

(2) Acceptance Sampling

Assignment Group 2Q.1 Describe in brief some of the important quantitative techniques used in modern

business & Industrial Units.

Q.2 State the general procedure for testing the hypothesis. Also explain clearly the

meaning of null hypothesis?

(Testing Hypothesis)

Q.3 (a) In a group of 20 persons 5 are females if 3 persons are picked out of 20 at

random (i) What is the Probability that all are females and (ii) What is the

probability of atleast one being female?

20 5 20 3

(i) (ii)

(b) What is meant by Probability Distributions? Discuss the salient features of the

bionomial, Normal and Poission Distribution.

Q.4 Two random samples are chosen from two normal population.

sample I : 20 16 26 27 23 22 18 24 26 19

sample II : 17 23 32 25 22 24 28 18 31 33 20 27

obtains estimates of the variances of the populations and test whether the two

populations have the same variance using f-test.

Q.5 300 digits were chosen at random from a set of tables the frequency of the digits

were

Digit : 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

Frequency : 28 29 33 31 26 35 32 30 31 25

use the x2 test to assess the correctness of the hypopthesis that the digits were

distributed in equal numbers in the tables from which there were chosen.

x2

Q.6 Calculate Ro. 123 for the following

Ro. 123

X1 X2 X3 X0

14 20 18 13

06 06 07 06

10 11 08 08

12 28 10 11

14 31 18 13

20 32 19 14

12 25 09 13

08 07 07 02

Also given

x0 = 1.9 556 + 0.0169

x1 + 0.2776

x2 + 0.1909x3.


Managerial Economics


Assignment Group 11. Describe the difference between the accounting and the economic concept of profit.

2. Explain the concept of an economic model.

3. What is the difference between the short run and the long run?

4. How would risk affect the normal rate of Profit in an industry?

5. What determines the mix of labour and capital used by the firm to produce output?

Explain.

6. What is capital budgeting?

Assignment Group 21. What are the two examples of decision making under risk and two examples of

decision making under uncertainty?

2. What is the relationship between a firms marginal income tax rate and the net cost ofdebt capital to the firm?

3. What is human capital and how does it enhance labour productivity?

4. What is the market area for your university or college?

5. What are some antitrust violations judged using as per se standard?

6. Explain the relationship between the primary and dual linear programming problems.


Environment Management


Assignment Group 11. What are the economic factors affecting business policies?

2. What are salient features of the industrial policy resolution of 1948?

1948

3. Write a short note on the Industries Act, 1951.

1951

4. What are the powers of the MRTP commission?

5. What are the various forms of foreign capital?

6. What are multinational corporations?

Assignment Group 21. What are the functions of the SEBI?

2. Define a sick industrial company.

3. What are the problems of small scale industries?

4. What is social audit?

5. What are consumer rights?

6. Describe the various forms of privatisation.


Accounting for Manager


Assignment Group 11. Explain the classification of costs?

2. Discuss in detail the objectives of Inventory Management?

3. From the following Particulars, find out the break even point:

Rs.Variable cost per unit 15Fixed Expenses 54,000

Selling Price per unit 20

What should be the selling price per unit if the break even point should be broughtdown to 6,000 units?

1554,00020

6,000

4. Explain the concept of marginal costing?

5. What is mean by incentive schemes in the remuneration of labours? Explain theseplans in brief?

6. Write short notes on :

(a) Residual values

(b) Pay back method

( )( )

Assignment Group 21. What is management accounting. Explain?

2. What do you understand by Budgetary control? What are the advantages of this

system?

3. Calculate labour variances from the following data :

Standard Actual

Output in units 2,000 2,500

Number of workers employed 50 60

Number of working days in a months 20 22

Average wage per man per 280 330

month (Rs.)

2,000 2,500

50 60

20 22

280 330

4. What are the limitations of absorption costing?

5. Explain the Rate of Return Method?

6. Write short notes on :

(a) Payroll analysis

(b) Master budget

( )

(

M.B.A. 1st Year Assignment - 5

Managerial Skill Development


Assignment Group 11. Identify your basic assumptions about subordinates.

2. What is the difference between compromise and collaboration?

3. What is the relationship between low employee growth needs and low motivatingpotential score in the same workplace?

4. Diagnose your empowerment strategy profile.

5. What were some of the improvement strategies identified by your group?

6. Did the nature of leadership in your group affect the decision making process?

Assignment Group 21. Learn about the difference between pooled, sequential and reciprocal

interdependence.

2. Understand the importance of norms for group functioning.

3. What were some of the items from the group effectiveness checklist that your groupdisagreed on?

4. Identify the characteristics of your organization.

5. Are lossely coupled corporate cultures a characteristic of your, growingorganizations?

6. What is Managerial skills. Explain?

M.B.A. 1st Year (SEM - II)Assignment - 1

Business Policy and Strategic Analysis


Assignment Group 1Q.1 What are the problem with corporate planning.

Q.2 Write down the difference between an organisation and firm?

Q.3 Explain the Five forces model of competition?

Q.4 Explain business unit and corporate goals?

Q.5 Write a brief note on positioning the firm?

Q.6 How we can achieve cost leadership?

Assignment Group 2Q.1 Explain culture, style and values of organisation?

Q.2 Compare the current with desired position of organisation?

Q.3 Explain visions and missions?

Q.4 When to diversity?

Q.5 Explain the different types of industry?

Q.6 Clarify the needs of the two main buyer segments seved by workgear?


Management Science


Assignment Group 1Q.1 Define organisation development?

Q.2 Explain Management by objectives?

Q.3 Explain Models and theories of planned change?

Q.4 What is action Research. Explain its variety?

Q.5 What is total quality management?

Q.6 What is leadership explain its styles?

Assignment Group 2Q.1 Explain the role and powers of organisation development?

Q.2 What is staffing and career development?

Q.3 What is Behavioural planning?

Q.4 What is large scale system change?

Q.5 Define client system?

Q.6 Organisation development future is bright. Explain?


Human Resource Management


Assignment Group 11. Discuss the basic elements of empowerment.

2. What is Flextime?

3. Point out the difference between Personnel Management and HRM.

4. Define Labour market. Point out the characteristics of a labour market.

5. Distinguish between transfer and promotion. Spell out a good transfer policy.

6. Define Communication. Distinguish between communication and information.

Assignment Group 21. Define Leader. What are the leadership functions?

2. What are the functions of culture?

3. Distinguish between training, education and development.

4. What is job evaluation?

5. Explain the term conflict?

6. Highlight the needs of quality circles.


Financial Management


Assignment Group 11. What are the problems in finance? Explain.

2. Explain the different types of stock?

3. Describe the process of merging?

4. Why shares prices fluctuate. Explain.

5. Rank the following investment proposals in order of their profitability according to pay

back period.

Annual Cash Inflow

Project Initial outlay ACF Life in Years

A 50,000 10,000 8

B 90,000 12,000 10

C 6,000 600 13

D 24,000 3,000 15

E 5,00,000 1,25,000 10

6. Write Short notes on the following :

(a) Security

(b) Cost of capital

( )

( )

Assignment Group 21. Explain the adjusting capital structure.

2. Explain the different types of debt?

3. Describe the working capital cycle?

4. What are the basic concepts of accounting?

5. The cost of a projects is Rs. 13,550 following amounts are expected to be received

on a project!

I yr Rs. 2,000, II yr. Rs. 4,000, III yr. Rs. 5,000 and IV yr. Rs. 6,000. Find out their Net

present values using 8% discount rate Is it reasonable to invest in this projects?

13,550 2,000

4,000 5,000 6,000

8%

6. Write short notes on the following :

(a) Working Capital

(b) Cash


Marketing Management


Assignment Group 11. What do you understand by Marketing Functions?

2. Define marketing management and explain its importance in Indian economy.

3. What do you mean by a new product?

4. What is Branding?

5. What do understand by product life cycle?

6. What is the difference between Marketing research and Market research.

Assignment Group 21. What do you understand by price charge?

2. Discuss the various stages in the buying process.

3. What is the importance of consumer behaviour in marketing.

4. What are the three objectives of global competitive marketing strategy?

5. Explain the nature of services?

6. Write a short notes on :(a) Packaging.

(b) Labelling


Production & Operation Management


Assignment Group 11. Explain the relationship between quality and productivity.

2. Define accounting life, machine life and economic life of an asset.

3. What is the present value of a 15-years series of $800 investments if the interest rateis 8 percent 10 percent.

15 800 8 10

4. Explain the relationships between technology and mechanization.

5. Define and give examples of normal and maximum measures of capacity.

6. What is meant by the term feasibility area (region of feasibility) in a linearprogramming model?

Assignment Group 21. Define the following :

(a) Linear Objective function

(b) Nonlinear objective function

2. What is meant by the property of homogeneity?

3. Differentiate between project planning and other types of planning.

4. How might aggregate planning affect job satisfaction?

5. What is meant by the ABC classification?

6. What is the difference between sporadic problems and chronic problems?

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