annamalai university assignments first year
1.1 PRINCIPLES OF MANAGEMENT
1. Choose one academic administrator and another public administrator and
conduct interview and then ask them how their job differs from that of business
managers. How do they know how well their department, institution or
organization is performing, Since profit is probably not one of the criteria for
assessing effectiveness and efficiency?
2. Design a interview schedule and conduct the interview a manager in your
locality and ask him how many subordinates he has. Are different numbers of
subordinates supervised at the top, the middle, and the bottom of the
organizational hierarchy? What really determines the span of management in
the organization.
3. “There are two notions about relationship between job satisfaction and
productivity: a happy worker is a productivity one; a happy worker is not
necessarily a productive one. Critically evaluate this statement and bring out the
situations under which each statement is true”.
4. “Planning is the basis, delegation is the key, information is the guide, and action
is the essence of control of.” Trace the relationship between control and other
functions with real life examples.
1.2 ACCOUNTING FOR MANAGERS
1. How a financial statement helps the investors and creditors for a service based
company and manufacturing company. Give your views by taking any of the one
company of your choice on both the sector.
2. Identify the financial ratio on which type of retail stores adopted. Further analyse
the various importance of those ratio and give your views. How it will help the
retail store.
3. Discuss various applications of the Break Even Chart. Enumerate the various
criticism usually levelled against Break Even Charts. Differentiate how this
Break Even chart helps the service sector and manufacturing sector.
4.From the following particulars, prepare the Balance Sheet of Sri Mohan Ram.
Current Ratio -- 2
Working Capital -- Rs. 4,00,000
Capital block to Current Assets -- 3:2
Fixed Asset to turnover -- 1:3
Sales Cash / Credit -- 1:2
Stock Velocity -- 2 months
Creditor’s velocity -- 2 months
Debtor’s velocity -- 3 months
Capital block Net Profit -- 10% of turnover
Debentures / Share Capital -- 1:2
Gras Profit Ratio -- 25% (to Sales)
Reserve -- 2.5% of turnover
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1.3 MANAGERIAL ECONOMICS
1. Out of your own experience find out the reasons for failure of business
forecasting even in the experienced companies.
2. Take the IT sector as an example for perfect competition and analyse the
character.
3. Prepare an essay to show the growth of National Income in India after
Independence
4. Explicit the empirical production and explain optimum combination of inputs
with diagrams..
1.4 LEGAL ENVIRONMENT OF BUSINESS
1. “A contract which is regular in all respects may still fail if there is no Conesus
ad idem”. Explain
2. “No one can give what he himself has not”. Discuss the exceptions
3. “The property of the company is the property of its members”. Comment
4. “It is compulsory for every company to register articles of association”. Comment
1.5 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY AND STATISTICS
1. “Creative Management, whether in Public Administration or Private Industry,
depends on Methods of Inquiry that Maintain Objectivity, Clarity, Accuracy and
Consistency.” Examine the significance of research and this statement –Discuss.
2. A random sample of size 70- is taken from an infinite normal population, which
has its mean and variance as 200 and 750, respectively. What is the probability
that the sample mean is greater than 205?
3. Consider any research problem of interest to you. Structure it in terms of an
appropriate hypothesis to be tested. Also, mention the possible errors and
recommendation associated with your hypothesis. Illustrate your answer with
the help of suitable examples.
4. An agricultural officer wants to study the effect of four different fertilizers on the
yield (in tons) of a specific crop. The corresponding data are as shown below.
Fertilizer Plot A B C D 1 100 150 120 70 2 80 70 110 100 3 68 90 85 78 4 125 138 60 124
Check whether there is a significant difference between the yields of different
fertilizers using the Krurkal – Wallis test at a significance level of 0.01.
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1.6 INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS
1. “A company that fails to go global is in the danger of losing its domestic business
to competitors with lower costs, greater experience, better products and, is a
nutshell, more value for customer. – Discuss.
2. “IMF and World Bank serve the interests of industrialized nations rather than
those of the developing countries.” – Discuss
3. Do you justify that the working pins would really link the present scenario of
International Business with that of the future?
4. Do you think that international financial institution help in competency building
of world nation and thereby enhance the magnitude the diversity of global
business? Explain.
1.7 MANAGERIAL COMMUNICATION
1. Compare the barriers to oral and written communication. Which is more
challenging? provide the ways and means of overcoming these challenges.
2. What is the relationship between leadership behaviour and effectiveness of
communication? as a leader draft a letter to your subordinates to propose new
product ideas.(Assume a FMCG company of your choice)
3. What are Blogs? How Blogs can be used to promote business for a company selling
designer leather goods? List out the essential characteristics of a good blog.
4. In what way business and academic reports differ? Draft a business report to be
submitted by a Regional sales manager to Vice President of a company
marketing medical equipments.
1.8 ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOUR
1 Suggest any suitable motivational theory for IT industry and substantiate your
views.
2. “Attitude determines your Altitude”-Substantiate your views on this quote with
relevant corporate examples.
3. “A happy Worker is a productive worker”- Discuss in a behavioural perspective.
4. ‘Organisational development involves the development of organization in the
light of its future expansion plan’. Elaborate your views.
