MBA finance Annamali assignments
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ANNAMALAI UNIVERSITY
2
1.1 PRINCIPLES OF MANAGEMENT
1. ‘Management is the force which leads, guides and directs an organization in the
accomplishment of pre-determined objectives’. Do you agree or disagree? Justify.
2. Management is regarded as an art by someone, science by others but in reality
science should have many more. The truth seems to be somewhere in between.
In the light of this statement, explain to exact nature of management.
3. ‘The job of the supervisor is many more difficult than that of higher level managers’.
Examine the major responsibilities of a supervisor in an agro based Industry.
4. “A good leader is not necessarily a good manager”. Take one example from service
industry as per your choice and compare the role of leaders and managers.
1.2 MARKETING MANAGEMENT
1. Describe “The evolution of retail in India' in your words, highlighting the latest
trends in Indian retail. Critically examine the future of Indian retailing if global
players are allowed to enter India.
2. Many marketers have tried and failed with "Green marketing" programs. Identify
and describe the main problems with such campaigns. Recommend suitable
remedies to overcome the problems.
3. Identify tope three advertising agencies in India, and describe the main reasons
for their success. List out recent successful campaigns of these agencies.
4. In today’s India the growth of online marketing is going with upward trend.
Discuss the Pros. & Cons. Which segment of consumers and what kind of
products dominates online marketing.
1.3 FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
1. Select an organisation of your choice and discuss the cash Management system
in that organization. Give your Views or suggestions on the prevailing system of
cash management in that organization and any suitable changes to be brought
about, to improve the present system.
2. Discuss the critical decisions that you need to take in working capital
management. Emphasize the important ways in which these decisions differ
from those concerned with the management of the fixed capital of a business.
3. “High dividend payout ratio goes in hand with high price earnings ratio and low
dividend payout ratio goes hand in hand with low price earnings ratio.”
Comment your views on this statement elaborately.
4. Identify the macro factors which are prevailing in the global economy, leading to
mergers and acquisitions.
3
1.4 PRODUCTION AND MATERIALS MANAGEMENT
1. Give a specimen of GANTT CHART which is normally used in the production
planning and control department and describe briefly how it could be used for
checking the actual progress of a job against the schedule.
2. Discuss the functions of purchasing department in an Industry. Explain some
methods of purchasing commonly adopted in an Industrial Purchasing. Why
should the purchasing documents be legally sound?
3. In estimating the standard time of a job what different elements are considered?
Elucidate.
4. JIT helps the manufacturing system to improve productivity. Discuss whether
this concept is applicable in Pharma Industry.
1.5 HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
1. “HR Managers should have a seat at the Strategic-Management table, but only
when they earn it”. Discuss.
2. Suppose a key employee has just resigned and you are the department
manager. After you have sent your request for replacement, how could you help
the recruiter to find the best replacement?
3. Suppose you are going to design a training programme for newly hired first-line
sales managers results from the needs assessment indicate that they will need
training on company policies and procedures, handling customer complaints,
and motivating sales personnel. What learning principles will you build into the
programme? What training methods would you choose? Explain your choices.
4. A growing number of employees are reluctant to accept overseas assignments.
Why do they refuse? What benefits and services would you offer to them to
accept such transfer?
1.6 BUSINESS MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS
1. A random sample of 1000 workers from south India shows that their mean wage
is Rs. 47 per week with a standard deviation of Rs. 28. A random sample of
1500 workers from North India gives a mean wage of Rs. 49 per week with a
standard deviation of Rs. 40. Is there any significant difference between their
mean levels of wages?
2. A tea company appoints four salesmen A, B, C, D and observes their sales in
three seasons – summer, winter and monsoon. The figures ( in lakhs ) are given
in the following table:
seasons Salesmen Season’s
Total
A B C D
summer 36 36 21 35 128
winter 28 29 31 32 120
monsoon 26 28 29 29 112
Salesmen’s Total 90 93 81 96 360
Test whether there is any significant difference in the salesman and in the
seasons, so far as sales are concerned.
|
Year |
2005 |
2006 |
2007 |
2008 |
2009 |
2010 |
2011 |
2012 |
2013 |
|
Sales Rs(‘000) |
48 |
55 |
63 |
65 |
72 |
84 |
90 |
87 |
82 |
4
3. Fit a straight line trend by the method of least squares to the following data
|
|
classes is taken to know their opinion about autonomous colleges. 290 of the
undergraduate and 310 of postgraduate students favoured the autonomous
status. Present these facts in the form of a table and test at 5% level, that the
opinion regarding autonomous status of colleges is independent of level of
classes of students.
1.7 MANAGERIAL COMMUNICATION
1. Assume that you are working as a Regional Sales Manager in a pharmaceutical
company. In your current position, you need to communicate to Doctors, Pharmacy
Owners and your sub-ordinates. List out the barriers in communicating with these
people and also suggest ways to overcome these barriers.
2. You are the General Manager of a Telecom company. Draw a communication flow
chart in your organization and also discuss the problems in implementing it.
3. As a Chief Executive Officer of an Agro based company, prepare a draft for your
speech in the forthcoming Annual General Body meeting highlighting your
company’s achievements, growth and future plan etc.
4. As a Regional Sales Head of a FMCG company, submit a report for the previous
year’s performance and projection for the next year. Use charts in your report.
1.8 FINANCIAL AND MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING
1. Before extending credit, ascertaining and analyzing the credit worthiness of
customers is an important and difficult task. Comment your views.
2. A branch or business segment that shows negative operating income should be
shutdown. Do you agree or not? Justify your views for and against.
3. X is the owner of Cafe at Delhi University, is trying to decide whether to make
pizza or buy them from a supplier Super Narula, in Delhi. X has come to you for
advice. What factors would you tell him to consider in making his choice?
4. You are required to collect the balance sheets of your company or any other
company for past three years and analyze the trends in working capital. What
do these trends indicate?
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ANNAMALAI UNIVERSITY
2
1.1 PRINCIPLES OF MANAGEMENT
1. ‘Management is the force which leads, guides and directs an organization in the
accomplishment of pre-determined objectives’. Do you agree or disagree? Justify.
2. Management is regarded as an art by someone, science by others but in reality
science should have many more. The truth seems to be somewhere in between.
In the light of this statement, explain to exact nature of management.
3. ‘The job of the supervisor is many more difficult than that of higher level managers’.
Explain the major responsibilities of a supervisor in an agro based Industry.
4. “A good leader is not necessarily a good manager”. Take one example from service
industry as per your choice and compare the role of leaders and managers.
1.2 MARKETING MANAGEMENT
1. Describe “The evolution of retail in India' in your words, highlighting the latest
trends in Indian retail. Critically examine the future of Indian retailing if global
players are allowed to enter India.
2. Many marketers have tried and failed with "Green marketing" programs. Identify
and describe the main problems with such campaigns. Recommend suitable
remedies to overcome the problems.
3. Identify top three advertising agencies in India, and describe the main reasons
for their success. List out recent successful campaigns of these agencies.
4. In today’s India the growth of online marketing is going with upward trend.
Discuss the Pros. & Cons. Which segment of consumers and what kind of
products dominates online marketing.
1.3 FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
1. Select an organistion of your choice and discuss the cash Management system
in that organization. Give your Views or suggestions on the prevailing system of
cash management in that organization and any suitable changes to be brought
about, to improve the present system.
2. Discuss the critical decisions that you need to take in working capital
management. Emphasize the important ways in which these decisions differ
from those concerned with the management of the fixed capital of a business.
3. “High dividend payout ratio goes in hand with high price earnings ratio and low
dividend payout ratio goes hand in hand with low price earnings ratio.”
Comment your views on this statement elobrately.
4. Identify the macro factors which are prevailing in the global economy, leading to
mergers and acquisitions.
1.4 PRODUCTION AND MATERIALS MANAGEMENT
1. Give a specimen of GANTT CHART which is normally used in the production
planning and control department and describe briefly how it could be used for
checking the actual progress of a job against the schedule.
3
2. Discuss the functions of purchasing department in an Industry. Explain some
methods of purchasing commonly adopted in an Industrial Purchasing. Why
should the purchasing documents be legally sound?
3. In estimating the standard time of a job what different elements are considered?
Elucidate.
4. JIT helps the manufacturing system to improve productivity. Discuss whether
this concept is applicable in Pharma Industry.
1.5 HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
1. “HR Managers should have a seat at the Strategic-Management table, but only
when they earn it”. Discuss.
2. Suppose a key employee has just resigned and you are the department
manager. After you have sent your request for replacement, how could you help
the recruiter to find the best replacement?
3. Suppose you are going to design a training programme for newly hired first-line
sales managers results from the needs assessment indicate that they will need
training on company policies and procedures, handling customer complaints,
and motivating sales personnel. What learning principles will you build into the
programme? What training methods would you choose? Explain your choices.
4. A growing number of employees are reluctant to accept overseas assignments.
Why do they refuse? What benefits and services would you offer to them to
accept such transfer.
1.6 BUSINESS MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS
1. A random sample of 1000 workers from south India shows that their mean wage
is Rs. 47 per week with a standard deviation of Rs. 28. A random sample of
1500 workers from North India gives a mean wage of Rs. 49 per week with a
standard deviation of Rs. 40. Is there any significant difference between their
mean levels of wages?
2. A tea company appoints four salesmen A, B, C, D and observes their sales in
three seasons – summer, winter and monsoon. The figures ( in lakhs ) are given
in the following table:
seasons Salesmen Season’s
Total
A B C D
summer 36 36 21 35 128
winter 28 29 31 32 120
monsoon 26 28 29 29 112
Salesmen’s Total 90 93 81 96 360
Test whether there is any significant difference in the salesman and in the
seasons, so far as sales are concerned.
|
Year |
2005 |
2006 |
2007 |
2008 |
2009 |
2010 |
2011 |
2012 |
2013 |
|
Sales Rs(‘000) |
48 |
55 |
63 |
65 |
72 |
84 |
90 |
87 |
82 |
4
3. Fit a straight line trend by the method of least squares to the following data
|
|
classes is taken to know their opinion about autonomous colleges. 290 of the
undergraduate and 310 of postgraduate students favoured the autonomous
status. Present these facts in the form of a table and test at 5% level, that the
opinion regarding autonomous status of colleges is independent of level of
classes of students.
1.7 MANAGERIAL COMMUNICATION
1. Assume that you are working as a Regional Sales Manager in a pharmaceutical
company. In your current position, you need to communicate to Doctors, Pharmacy
Owners and your sub-ordinates. List out the barriers in communicating with these
people and also suggest ways to overcome these barriers.
2. You are the General Manager of a Telecom company. Draw a communication flow
chart in your organization and also discuss the problems in implementing it.
3. As a Chief Executive Officer of a Agro based company, prepare a draft for your
speech in the forthcoming Annual General Body meeting highlighting your
company’s achievements, growth and future plan etc.
4. As a Regional Sales Head of a FMCG company, submit a report for the previous
year’s performance and projection for the next year. Use charts in your report.
1.8 ADVERTISING MANAGEMENT
1. Enumerate the effects of social welfare advertisement. In India enlist it’s merits
and demerits, state some social issues to be considered while creating social
welfare advertisements.
2. Suggest appropriate media while determining advertisement for real estate
segment products in Indian scenario. How will you decide suitable appeal in
creating advertisement?
3. Enlist the needs and advantages of conducting various types of pre test conducted
in advertising research can this pre test are adoptable in paint advertisement and
also broad cast advertisement elaborate your views with appropriate example
compare the benefits of pretest with post test in advertising research.
4. Elaborate the components of an effective advertising layout in print
advertisement while deciding these advertise how advertisers’ consider various
factors involved in it? According to your choice take any two most effective print
advertisements and analyzing combined impacts of various component of
advertising layout
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MBA HR Annamali assignments
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ANNAMALAI UNIVERSITY
M.B.A. (HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT)
FIRST YEAR
2
1.1 PRINCIPLES OF MANAGEMENT
1. ‘Management is the force which leads, guides and directs an organization in the
accomplishment of pre-determined objectives’. Do you agree or disagree? Justify.
2. Management is regarded as an art by someone, science by others but in reality
science should have many more. The truth seems to be somewhere in between.
In the light of this statement, explain to exact nature of management.
3. ‘The job of the supervisor is many more difficult than that of higher level managers’.
Examine the major responsibilities of a supervisor in an agro based Industry.
4. “A good leader is not necessarily a good manager”. Take one example from service
industry as per your choice and compare the role of leaders and managers
1.2 MARKETING MANAGEMENT
1. Describe “The evolution of retail in India' in your words, highlighting the latest
trends in Indian retail. Critically examine the future of Indian retailing if global
players are allowed to enter India.
2. Many marketers have tried and failed with "Green marketing" programs. Identify
and describe the main problems with such campaigns. Recommend suitable
remedies to overcome the problems.
3. Identify tope three advertising agencies in India, and describe the main reasons
for their success. List out recent successful campaigns of these agencies.
4. In today’s india the growth of online marketing is going with upward trend.
Discuss the pros. & cons. Which segment of consumers and what kind of
products dominates online marketing
1.3 FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
1. Select an organistion of your choice and discuss the cash Management system
in that organization. Give your Views or suggestions on the prevailing system of
cash management in that organization and any suitable changes to be brought
about, to improve the present system.
2. Discuss the critical decisions that you need to take in working capital
management. Emphasize the important ways in which these decisions differ
from those concerned with the management of the fixed capital of a business.
3. “High dividend payout ratio goes in hand with high price earnings ratio and low
dividend payout ratio goes hand in hand with low price earnings ratio.”
Comment your views on this statement elobrately.
4. Identify the macro factors which are prevailing in the global economy, leading to
mergers and acquisitions.
1.4 PRODUCTION AND MATERIALS MANAGEMENT
1. Give a specimen of GANTT CHART which is normally used in the production
planning and control department and describe briefly how it could be used for
checking the actual progress of a job against the schedule.
3
2. Discuss the functions of purchasing department in an Industry. Explain some
methods of purchasing commonly adopted in an Industrial Purchasing. Why
should the purchasing documents be legally sound?
3. In estimating the standard time of a job what different elements are considered?
Elucidate.
4. JIT helps the manufacturing system to improve productivity. Discuss whether
this concept is applicable in Pharma Industry.
1.5 HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
1. “HR Managers should have a seat at the Strategic-Management table, but only
when they earn it”. Discuss.
2. Suppose a key employee has just resigned and you are the department
manager. After you have sent your request for replacement, how could you help
the recruiter to find the best replacement?
3. Suppose you are going to design a training programme for newly hired first-line
sales managers results from the needs assessment indicate that they will need
training on company policies and procedures, handling customer complaints,
and motivating sales personnel. What learning principles will you build into the
programme? What training methods would you choose? Explain your choices.
4. A growing number of employees are reluctant to accept overseas assignments.
Why do they refuse? What benefits and services would you offer to them to
accept such transfer.
1.6 BUSINESS MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS
1. A random sample of 1000 workers from south India shows that their mean wage
is Rs. 47 per week with a standard deviation of Rs. 28. A random sample of
1500 workers from North India gives a mean wage of Rs. 49 per week with a
standard deviation of Rs. 40. Is there any significant difference between their
mean levels of wages?
2. A tea company appoints four salesmen A, B, C, D and observes their sales in
three seasons – summer, winter and monsoon. The figures ( in lakhs ) are given
in the following table:
seasons Salesmen Season’s
Total
A B C D
summer 36 36 21 35 128
winter 28 29 31 32 120
monsoon 26 28 29 29 112
Salesmen’s Total 90 93 81 96 360
Test whether there is any significant difference in the salesman and in the
seasons, so far as sales are concerned.
|
Year |
2005 |
2006 |
2007 |
2008 |
2009 |
2010 |
2011 |
2012 |
2013 |
|
Sales Rs(‘000) |
48 |
55 |
63 |
65 |
72 |
84 |
90 |
87 |
82
|
4
3. Fit a straight line trend by the method of least squares to the following data
|
|
classes is taken to know their opinion about autonomous colleges. 290 of the
undergraduate and 310 of postgraduate students favoured the autonomous
status. Present these facts in the form of a table and test at 5% level, that the
opinion regarding autonomous status of colleges is independent of level of
classes of students.
1.7 MANAGERIAL COMMUNICATION
1. Assume that you are working as a Regional Sales Manager in a pharmaceutical
company. In your current position, you need to communicate to Doctors, Pharmacy
Owners and your sub-ordinates. List out the barriers in communicating with these
people and also suggest ways to overcome these barriers.
2. You are the General Manager of a Telecom company. Draw a communication flow
chart in your organization and also discuss the problems in implementing it.
3. As a Chief Executive Officer of a Agro based company, prepare a draft for your
speech in the forthcoming Annual General Body meeting highlighting your
company’s achievements, growth and future plan etc.
4. As a Regional Sales Head of a FMCG company, submit a report for the previous
year’s performance and projection for the next year. Use charts in your report.
1.8 ORGANISATIONAL BEHAVIOUR
1. As an IT manager of a medium sized organization, design an information
system for that organization and explain how this system transforms
organization and management to address the end–user needs.
2. “Honesty and Loyalty are so critical in today’s competitive environment of e-
commerce” – Validate the above statement assuming you are a manager in
charge of e-commerce in a large scale organization.
3. You are appointed as a system analyst in a medium sized sugar mill,
conceive and design an HR information system for that company.
4. It is widely perceived that government plays a key role in developing e-
commerce. As an e-commerce strategist of an organization substantiate the
above statement and contribute your ideas and suggestions for furthering e-
commerce development.
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MBA International business Annamali assignments
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ANNAMALAI UNIVERSITY
DIRECTORATE OF DISTANCE EDUCATION
M.B.A. (INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS)
FIRST YEAR
Academic Year 2014 - 2015
ASSIGNMENT TOPICS
2
1.1 PRINCIPLES OF MANAGEMENT
1. ‘Management is the force which leads, guides and directs an organization in the
accomplishment of pre-determined objectives’. Do you agree or disagree?
Justify.
2. Management is regarded as an art by someone, science by others but in reality
science should have many more. The truth seems to be somewhere in between.
In the light of this statement, explain to exact nature of management.
3. ‘The job of the supervisor is many more difficult than that of higher level
managers’. Examine the major responsibilities of a supervisor in an agro based
Industry.
4. “A good leader is not necessarily a good manager”. Take one example from
service industry as per your choice and compare the role of leaders and
managers
1.2 INTERNATIONAL ACCOUNTING
1. Review and comment on the work undertaken for harmonization by various
bodies and explain the details of standard setting process by International
Accounting Standard Board(IASB)
2. “Price differences in different geographic segment make international accounting
a challenging Endeavour” How experts overcome this challenge?
3. “Accounting policies differ so much from country to country that accountants
trained in one country leave difficulty in practicing another, even if there is no
language barrier” Do you agree? Explain
4. Compare and contrast the following proposed approaches for dealing with
international differences in accounting, disclosure and auditing standards 1.
Reciprocity 2. Reconciliation 3. International Standards
1.3 INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS
1. Do the IMF and other financial institutions play a vital role in foreign trade
policy? If so elucidate the points with apt examples.
2. Using the Heckscher-ohlin model of trade, show that free trade is better than no
trade. In this context, derive also a graphical measure of gain from trade.
3. ”Free trade promotes a mutually profitable regional division of labour, greatly
enhances the potential real national product of all nations and makes possible
higher standard of living all over the globe.” Explain and critically examine the
statement.
4. Scrutinize the arguments for and against the fixed and flexible exchange rates.
Is fixed or flexible exchange rate suitable for less developed countries? Validate
your answer.
3
1.4 INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT
1. Take an export oriented firm in readymade garments industry of your choice.
What are the different nontrade barriers that it faces? What are your
suggestions to the firm? Explain
2. Analyze the recent data on china – India trade. What are the present major
items of trade? Where is the scope of enhancing the trade? What are the firm
level actions that are necessary? Present in detail
3. One of your friends is willing to export cashew nuts. Explain him in detail about
the activities of organization he should get in touch with
4. A leading multinational company going to establish the business in India.
Prepare a country analysis report of India using the PEST and SWOT
framework, which will be useful for multinations for taking investment
decisions.
1.5 FOREIGN POLICY OF INDIA
1. Bring to light the recent changes in India’s Foreign Policy. In what way, the
changes are instrumental for the promotion of India’ international trade?
2. “India’s export still depending on government sops rather than on competitive
strengths”. In this context, critically analysis the recent changes made in our
foreign trade policy.
3. Are you satisfied with the Indian diplomatic measures with Srilanka? If yes,
bring to light its strengths. If not, suggest measures to strengthen it.
4. Focus on India’s relationship both political and trade with the United States. Do
you agree this relationship is mutually beneficial? Defend your answer
1.6 INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND E-COMMERCE
1. How a barcode works when you pay for an item in a retail store? What retail
store managers can do with the information collected by the barcode readers?
Explain the problems of using barcodes?
2. How do internet retailers like flipkart and snapdeal selling goods online? How
sites do attracts and increase trust for online purchasing? Explain the customer
service they are offering to customers.
3. Explain how home users, small office/home office users, mobile users and
enterprise users interact with computers?
4. “Clustering has been popularity recognized as an important data mining task
with broad applications”- Discuss and give one example for each of the following
cases.
(a) An application that takes clustering as a major data mining function.
(b) An application that takes clustering as a preprocessing tool for data
preparation for another data mining task.
4
1.7 COMMUNICATION FOR GLOBAL MANAGERS
1. Discuss any situation in which you are involved where the communication went
wrong. Analyze the communication process in that situation, using the term
sender, receiver and other elements. Which element(s) disturbed the situation?
What lesson you learnt?
2. Imagine that you are attending a business seminar. What are the different
barriers that might come in the way of your listening effectively? Suggest the
ways to overcome the barriers
3. Write an agenda for a meeting with the purpose of formulating next year’s
marketing plan for a brand of designer clothing for men/women. Also write a
brief minute of the meeting, imaging and summing-up the proceedings.
4. Prepare a report on the flood or drought situation in your district and send to
the editor of a newspaper.
1.8 ORGANISATIONAL BEHAVIOUR
1. While managing workforce, “Participation is an excellent method for identifying
differences and resolving conflicts.” Do you agree or disagree? Illustrate with
real life examples.
2. Many organizations begun to supplement their traditional pay systems with
“Pay – for – Performance”. Of these plans, discuss the role of individual vs.
group incentives.
3. “Give specific attentions in implementing employee empowerment” – Discuss its
operationalization and implications for effective outcomes.
4. “Learning is involved in almost everything that everyone does”. Substantiate
your views and indentify the applications of learning in positive and negative
reinforcement’s strategy.
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