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b. Explain what strategies can be used by Lemon Tree to resolve these conflicts?

2. The newly set up management team is divided in their deliberation on a certain topic and require your help. The core area of this discussion is whether Management is an Art or a Science. As the chairman of the forum, can you throw some light on whether Management is an art or a science or both and

1. You are hired as a trainer by Sachin Ethanol, a newly setup organization dealing in manufacturing Ethanol from Sugarcane residue. The CEO wants you to train the newly recruited management trainees about the Principles of Management. Explain the principles of Management to these newly recruited employees by taking the help of Henri Fayol’s 14 Principles of Management?

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Tree, a famous hotel chain in India is losing its market share to its peers. The major reasons contributing to the same is that there is a lot of conflict in the organization due to which correct and timely decisions are not being taken. The company has hired you as a consultant to understand and solve this a.issueExplain the different types of Conflicts that can arise in an organization?

Management Theory and Practice

3.Why?Lemon

1. A company provides consultancy to all its clients on the Pricing of their products. M/s Herbal Life sells various types of FMCG products in the urban market. They sell toothpaste, multi-vitamin ayurvedic tablets, chia seeds, tulsi tea, herbal soap, shampoo, etc. The company has asked you to present various

Organisational Behaviour

1. Amar works for an IT company as a project coordinator. His boss, Ajay is very adamant and wants the work to be done according to his way without even considering anyone’s perspective. If Amar commits any minor mistake also he is reprimanded in front of the entire team. Ajay wants Amar to stay late beyond office hours, even when his work is complete. Consider the given situation and explain the pitfalls in leadership shown by Ajay.

2. Elaborate on various types of promotion mix that you will use for the Herbal Life products (as explained in the first question). The main idea behind the promotion is that it should become a household product like Patanjali or Dabur. (10 Marks)

3. a. Mr. Raj is planning to purchase a new phone with the latest features. Explain various steps involved for Raj in the decision process. (5 Marks)

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3. b. Global Stock is an online app for the purchase of international stocks from the international market. Explain and elaborate any five ways through which you will promote the app online.

2. Sameer works as a team leader in a multinational company. Whenever his team member performs well, goes out of his way to serve the client he awards them. The award can be a gift voucher or an appreciation mail. Sameer also encourages good behaviour by removing or handling well the situation which may lead to undesirable behaviour. Because of this practice it was the best performing team in the office. Analyse the situation and explain the elements of reinforcement used by Sameer.

types of Product Mix pricing and price adjustment strategies so that it can help them in taking pricing decisions for their range of products.

was a trainer for a Tasty Tummy multinational company, in FMCG business. She worked brilliantly with the executives on their writing and helped them to feel more confident about it. Renita worked with top executives as well as the shop floor level. She realized that teaching the shop floor employees was her call and she wanted to work more with them. Renita was paid quite high as majorly she was dealing with the top executives.

theories would explain why Renita was unhappy despite her high income?

b. Renita seems to have drifted into being a teacher. Given her needs and motivations, do you think teaching is an appropriate profession for her?

Financial

a.positionsWhatcontent

1. Prepare the journal by recording the following transactions

3.

RenitaCase:Parker

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Renita met Mark, her supervisor and explained to him that she wanted to be associated in teaching and training the shop floor employees because many of them could not write anything other their names. She also agreed to work on reduced salary and started offering English classes as an added benefit to them. Although the classes took some man hours of the employees but their productivity increased and even some of them began to apply for supervisory

3-Dec Mrs. Veena started business by introducing cash Rs5000 and 500000Rs as transfer from her saving bank account in the business

8-Dec

She paid rent, electricity, salary to employees Rs10000 of each type of expense through the bank account

2. Preparing the profit and loss account is a lengthy but at the same time interesting task. You need a lot of information to prepare the profit and loss statement. Discuss any five essential components out of the total eight components which contributes in preparing the profit and loss statement.

3. Following are the particulars available for Z and X, LLP

Particulars

(Rs in ‘000) retained earnings 860 accounts receivable 250 supplies 150 salaries payable 150 equipment 1500 unearned revenue 200 accounts payable 540 cash 550 prepaid insurance 300 common stock 1000

10-Dec

She sold off the entire goods at Rs 500000

7-Dec She purchased goods for sale, costing her Rs 315000 and made the payment through the business bank account

5-Dec She Purchased furniture worth Rs 60000, 50% payment made through the bank account of the business and the rest amount is payable

Quantity CostFixedTotal CostVariableTotal CostTotal CostFixedAverage CostVariableAverage CostTotalAverage CostMarginal 0 100 0 1 100 20 2 100 30 3 100 40 4 100 50 5 100 60

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b. Define and calculate the current ratio, Discuss the significance of this ratio.

1. Demand forecasting in an organisations plays a vital role in business organisations. It provides reasonable data for the organization's capital investment and expansion decision. Keeping the above statement in consideration. Discuss the various steps involved in demand forecasting

3. a. Suppose the monthly income of an individual increases from Rs 20,000 to Rs 25,000 which increases his demand for clothes from 40 units to 60 units. Calculate the income elasticity of demand.

2. From the given hypnotical table Calculate Total Cost, Average Fixed Cost, Average Variable cost and Marginal Cost.

a. Prepare T Form Balance Sheet out of the details as shared in the table

2. Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) is an Indian governmentowned oil and gas explorer and producer. BPCL's CEO is K. Padmakar. In this role, what is the Focus of the CEO’s role (i.e. Objectives, Kinds of Decisions, information needed, Timeframes etc.)? What are the Primary IS & Supporting IS Used (Description Data Types, Kind of Data, Type of Processing, which provides data to these IS)?

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3. Jennifer Roberts has just been hired as the CIO at Hawthorne Investments. During her interview, Vijay Ananth, the CEO, had tasked Jennifer with the responsibility of revamping the firm’s IT Infrastructure. Now that Jennifer has come onboard, she is keen to get started on the Infra Revamp initiative and has targeted BYOD as her first initiative. a. What is BYOD? Explain the three (3) levels of BYOD?

b. What are the Pros & Cons (2 each) of BYOD?

1. Farokh Motorwala is the CTO at D'Costa Spirits in Hyderabad, which has just celebrated its 30th Anniversary. The CEO has just announced an ambitious growth program for the firm. Farokh is therefore keen to is keen to revamp the firm's IT Infrastructure and align it to the Corporate Strategy. In this context. What are the questions re: IT Infra for Farokh – The Business Needs & The Tech Issues?

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3. b. Assume that a business firm sells a product at the price of Rs 500. The firm has decided to reduce the price of the product to Rs 400. Consequently, the demand for the product is raised from 20,000 units to 25,000 units. Calculate the price elasticity of demand.

2. An FMCG company wants to focus on improving the structure of the human resource department. They have hired you as an HR advisor for this purpose. Suggest what should be the various activities under the new sub divisions in the HR Department. Elaborate them with corporate examples.

1. ‘Sundaram Ltd’ is an electronics company in Chandigarh. The top management plans to open new branches pan India so they want to create a dynamic human resource department for managing employee functions. You have been appointed as their VP - HR. Explain to the top management, what will be the scope of your department in this expansion. Give some examples in the context of this company.

a. Explain the process of human resource planning. Give some examples also.

1. What are various decision criteria for deciding a location for a business setup? Explain these decision criteria with reference to a location decision for setting up a Healthcare setup (assume a healthcare setup type of your choice).

b. Discuss the qualitative methods for Human Resource Demand forecasting, that the company can utilize. Which one do you think is best suited for this company?

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Essentials of HRM

3. Maria, the HR Head of ‘Aztec Tech Solutions Ltd’ assigned the task of assessing the human resource planning to the HR Department. However, his team informed him that this assessment is not going well as they had expected. Keeping this context in mind, answer the following:

2. Explain in detail the various types of plant layout concepts that area available in operations management. Give examples on where each of these types can be employed respectively. Briefly explain a layout applicable for a Restaurant format, highlighting the good points and bottlenecks, if any.

1. Your favorite team Garuda is in the final season of Indian Premier League. Raj Kaul, an expert has assigned a probability of 60% that Garuda will win based on his study of the current scenario. Past records indicate that when teams win the championship, they win the first game of the series 70% of the time. When they lose the series, they win the first game 25% of the time. The first game is over; your team has lost. What is the probability that it will win the

Note:series?Probability Tree Diagram is required in this question. You are advised to draw the diagram in Word, PowerPoint etc.

b. Define Quality and list and discuss in brief the various dimensions of quality in operations

a. Explain the role of an Operations Managers in their interface with other functions in the institute. Give relevant examples

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3. The Education Sector is a good example wherein the operations involves the involvement of the “core teaching function” to be coordinating and working in sync with other departments. With reference to the education sector discuss the following aspects of operations in an Educational setup

Do not draw the diagram manually, handwritten/ snapshots are not allowed.

Decision Science

1. Calculate the Line of regression Y on X (Don’t use Excel, calculate 2.manually)Whatis

Quality Ratings given by Customer (X)

Shivani Raje is making Kakhra and selling online via e-commerce websites. Recently she is looking for some insights for improvising the quality of her product. She thought of survey, she asked her recent customers about the quality of the product and their satisfaction level towards the same. Her scale is 1 to 5. Higher the score higher the satisfaction/ quality and lower score value indicates lower level of satisfaction and poor quality.

Customer Satisfaction score (Y)

2. Run Regression Analysis based on the given Data.

b1 telling you about the relationship?

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TRIPURA SOUTH TRIPURA 586

TRIPURA NORTH TRIPURA 854

State Name District Name Total MSMEs

Note: You are advised to calculate manually, do not use software.

TRIPURA WEST TRIPURA 2915

3. a. Calculate the Relative Frequency based on the following Data and using ‘Relative frequency’ discuss the data by choosing appropriate graph.

TRIPURA DHALAI 439

TRIPURA KHOWAI 514

Data: District wise Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises

TRIPURA UNAKOTI 447

TRIPURA SEPAHIJALA 383

ANDHRA PRADESH SRIKAKULAM 10895

ANDHRA PRADESH PRAKASAM 45171

Note:You may use EXCEL, Tableau, Power BI Etc. for creating Graph.

1. Analyze the following data and show the top 2 districts using Bar chart.

You are allowed to copy graph only, make sure you follow the general instructions for writing assignment.

ANDHRA PRADESH SPSR NELLORE 54059

TRIPURA 513

GOMATI

Data Source: Data.gov.in

ANDHRA PRADESH WEST GODAVARI 33541

ANDHRA PRADESH KURNOOL 15362

ANDHRA PRADESH Y.S.R 37500

2. Calculate the median and provide the list of districts above median value.

3. b.

ANDHRA PRADESH CHITOOR 27670

Data Source: Data.gov.in

ANDHRA PRADESH KRISHNA 23231

ANDHRA PRADESH GUNTUR 25479

ANDHRA PRADESH VIZIANAGARAM 30186

ANDHRA PRADESH VISAKHAPATNAM 29070

State Name District Name Number of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises

ANDHRA PRADESH EAST GODAVARI 26546

ANDHRA PRADESH ANANTHAPUR 21193

Note: You are advised to calculate manually, do not use software.

a. What types intellectual property rights they could claim in relation to the SamSam and the recipes. Please explain with reason on why the type of intellectual property would apply?

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1. India’s vision of self-reliance is not only on its technological prowess but the conscious exploitation its flora and fauna. Explain and highlight the important provisions and features of the law that conserves biological diversity in India along with regulating the access to Indian Biological Resources

3. Samanyu wants to start a business along with his elder sister Samaira. Both have decided to start food truck chains across India and have decided to name it as “SamSam”. They are going to introduce a range of food products under the name of SamSam. For ex: SamSam Fries, SamSam Pizza, SamSam Tacos etc. Each of these products would have a special recipe designed by both Samira and Samanyu. However, they are skeptical that the word SamSam and these recipes would be copied/plagiarized by other food truck owners. They have approached you with following queries for them to understand what steps then can take to protect their rights:

Business Law

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2. Please give two (2) instances where investigations and/or punishments are initiated/enforced by the authorities set up under the Competition Act, 2002.

Strategic Management

b. Explain civil and criminal remedies under various intellectual property laws for enforcement of intellectual property rights?

b. How would you reposition your company’s brand in the future? Create two new products for your theatre chain which can ensure relevance and protect the company from unforeseen circumstances.

3. You are the head corporate strategy for cinema express a successful theatre chain having 20 theatres with 80 screens in tier two towns of India with the Pandemic hitting hard at the theatre business with prolonged shut downs business has been badly hit. Along with this consumer sentiment has been dampened deeply.

1. You are the marketing director of Citibank, your bank is making huge profits globally in the consumer banking division, your organization now wants to cut back on consumer banking and wants to focus on business-to-business segment. What type of strategy is it? Create a strategic plan for the disinvestment? How will you handle employee reactions, anger? Prepare a communication strategy.

a. As the company’s head of strategy what strategies would you evolve in ensuring your organization remains relevant in the post pandemic world. Create a strategy plan.

2. The IPL has never missed a season. Despite the Pandemic the IPL organized its seasons in the UAE. In the past the IPL has organized its event in South Africa. Do you think that the IPL brand Why would IPL be so insistent on continuing with its seasons despite the challenges it faced? Do you think the IPL brand would have been tarnished had a couple of seasons got missed ? Would missing a season impact the IPL brand. Analyze and evaluate.

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entrusted with the responsibility to train a fresh batch of Graduate Trainees that have joined your organization on ethical behaviour. Highlight the differences between ethical dilemma and ethical lapse citing 2 examples of each. In the absence of a clear set of guidelines, what should the trainees bear in mind to ensure they make ethical communication choices.

3. Nishka is creating the content for the FAQ section of her organization's website. Based on the client feedback, there is one important issue that needs to be addressed. She needs to develop a powerful paragraph providing a solution to this recurring issue. As a communication expert, you have to guide Nishka to write the answers to such issues effectively.

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1. Poorly written rejection letters can be detrimental to your organization’s image. What will you bear in mind while drafting a rejection letter to a job 2.applicant?Youare

2. From the Sustainability Report of any one listed company from across the globe, select any ONE social initiative adopted and practiced by the company. Explain in your own words the following; (i) the purpose of the initiative – its ethical foundation (ii) the modality/process of how the initiative is practiced and delivered (iii) what are the outcomes/impacts expected and whether they are measured, monitored and reported clearly

3. a. Are you aware that you are being tracked and watched while you are surfing the net. The advertisers observe your surfing behavior and accordingly target their ads at you. You end up exposing your supposed needs unawares as someone is stealing data about your online surfing patterns. This kind of tracking and placing ads in the surfer’s path is known as contextual targeting.

a. Briefly explain to Nishka, the five ways in which paragraphs can be developed. b. Develop a well-structured paragraph of 4-5 sentences to resolve the customer issue employing the problem and solution technique.

1. Go through the Management Discussion and Analysis Section of the Annual Report (2020-21) of any ONE listed company (refer to: top 200 companies by turnover – NSE or BSE List). Under Enterprise Risk Management, identify one economic risk and one risk related to Covid 19 Pandemic. Explain and analyse in your own words, what according to the company are the, a) impacts of these risks on business and b) what is the mitigation strategy identified & developed by the company to manage these risks.

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Business: Ethics, Governance & Risk

3. b. Marketer’s say prohibition of tracking takes away the marketer’s legitimate right to study consumer behavior. Which side do you agree with and what are your two reasons for doing so?

1. How can marketeers use technology to target customers to exercise more. Taking Yoga as an example of holistic exercise how will you use technology to target different categories of customers to improve their health by doing yoga regularly. (10 Marks)

3. Answer the following

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2. What is the Trio of Needs from consumer behaviour perspective? Take Smart Watch as a product. If you have to use this same product, how can you talk to three different customers and make the 3 different customers think of buying the same Smart Watch from a Trio of Needs perspective. Please use one Trio of Need per customer to illustrate the same.

Using the principle of JND suggest a discount for families earning 10,000 per month and families earning Rs. 15000.00, that would make them get up and

What is the inherent moral issue here? Why is it an issue? What does law say about it.

Consumer Behaviour

a. What is Just Noticeable Difference [JND] and Weber’s Law? (5 Marks)

b. Take a product like a low-cost pressure cooker [priced at Rs. 1800.00 for a 3 Litre, Rs. 2400.00 for a 5 Litre, Rs. 3200.00 for a 6.5 Litre pressure cooker] which is targeted to the lower income group whose annual income is in the range of Rs. 1.2 to 1.8 lakhs per annum [Rs. 10,000 – Rs. 15,000 per month].

Material price variance = 100 kgs. × ₹ 1 = ₹ 100

Unskilled worker – ₹6 per unit.

2. ABC Ltd. started a factory in Kolkata on 1st April, 2021. Following details are furnished about its activity during the year ended 31st March 2022.

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Actual quantity of materials used 98 kgs.

Actual price paid ₹ 11/kg

Material usage variance = 2 kgs. @ ₹ 11 = ₹ 22

Direct SkilledWages:worker – ₹9 per unit.

Do you agree with these calculations? If not, provide a correct calculation for the variances.

1. The data shown below relate to an industrial organization that manufactures household appliances.

Standard quantity required of materials item 0009 1 kg.

The following calculations for variances have been made:

Cost & Management Accounting

Product in a month appliances 100 kgs.

Raw Material consumed – 40,000 units @ ₹7 per unit.

Standard price per kg. ₹ 10

notice the discount & propel them to buy the pressure cooker. Please justify the discount for the same.

3. a. What are the implications of Economic Order Quantity in proper inventory

Stock of units at the end 4,000 units, to be valued at cost of production per unit.

The company “Inno-we” launches a new variant of its product every three months to stay relevant. They have their products in two categories namely Earbuds and smartwatches.

Sale price is ₹60 per unit.

3.management?bXLtd.estimates

Office Overheads at 1/3rd of works cost. Sales Commission @ ₹4 per unit.

a) What is the most economical number of units to order?

Digital Marketing

b) How many orders should be placed in a year?

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Units produced 40,000

Prepare Cost sheet showing the various elements of cost.

its carrying cost at 15% and its ordering cost at ₹9 per order. The estimated annual requirement is 48,000 units at a price of ₹4 per unit.

Machine Hours Worked 25,000.

Works overheads @ ₹8 per machine hour.

c) How often should an order be placed?

Royalty (on raw material consumed) @ ₹3 per unit.

3. a. What are Common Characteristics of Risk Management observed Insurance Context ?

3. a. Explain various ways to promote Track It brands online.

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1. The company has a plan to spend money on promotions using traditional and Modern marketing. As a marketing consultant for Track It Brand, explain the difference between Traditional and Modern marketing and suggest with reasons the one that the company should undertake for their brand Track It. (10 Marks)

1. A Businessman running a Fabrication Factory want to avail a Life Insurance for his Family and also he want to take General Insurance for his Factory Machines, Furniture & other assets. For this Businessman pt. of view What Grounds General Insurance can be treated different paradigm than Life

2.Insurance?IfanInsurance & Risk Advisor need to advice upon various Loss Exposures to a Business House What factors would be envisaged for the same ?

“Track It” is a newly launched smartwatch brand that is most affordable to Indian Consumers. The brand has brought many innovations to its product.

3. b. Explain various types of Digital Pricing models and explain with reason one that you will use for the Brand Track it.

2. What are the various Digital Business factors that will impact the Business strategy of Innowe?

“HearNow” is an established brand in the earbuds market. The company is successfully selling earbuds with the latest technology like noise cancellation and Bluetooth 5.0.

1. Your company is planning to expand its operations to other countries. Imagine yourself in the role of company’s financial manager. Management has asked you to explain them about the forex market and its functioning and how their company business would get affected by it?

3. b If a Health Insurance Policy agreement for Cover of Rs 7 Lakhs is about to expire on 31st of December, on 28th Dec person gets Heart Attack & gets admitted in Hospital. Even though person gets a reminder letter on 15th Dec, still Heath Insurance policy is Not renewed By Pass Surgery is advised with Cost of Rs. 10 Lakhs Person also want to change Health Insurance Company (Contract) from coming Financial Year. Kindly advise RIGHT course of Action as per Health Insurance guidelines parameters

2. An Indian import export house has a currency exposure to 10 million Japanese Yen. Assume that Yen is not directly quoted against INR. The current spot rates are USD/INR = 79.97 and USD/JPY =137.56. It is estimated that Yen will depreciate to 164 level and Rupee to depreciate against Dollar to 83. The Forward rate for December 2022 USD/YEN = 147.56 and USD/INR 82.52. Given that the actual spot rate on 30 December 2022 was USD/YEN = 137.85 and USD/INR = 79.99, what hedging decisions an Indian company should take?

3. Open currency position is subjected to exchange rate risk. Suppose you are doing training in the treasury department of bank. The manager has asked you to prepare report on the following:

a. Position limits on a currency that a dealer can carry during regular trading hours.

International Banking & Foreign Exchange Management

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1. “Organisations engaged in International Business often face more complex situations then the organisations which conduct Domestic Business.” –Critically evaluate the statement and explain difference between domestic and international Business.

b. Position limits on a currency that a dealer can carry over to the next day up to this limit.

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2. An Indian jewellary Brand “Tanishq” wants to enter into Middle East Market with its range. What are the choices available to enter into this overseas market and what is the best-suited option?

3. Vinayak began an electric fan manufacturing unit in Navi Mumbai ten years ago. He sells BLDC Energy saver fans to several towns in Maharashtra & South India. Though the business is doing well Vinayak started to feel that he should expand the business by attracting more customers. Vinayak has an opportunity

a. What factors are to be considered by Vinayak to decide if he wants to go for exports in Sri Lanka and Mauritius.

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Explain the 7S framework in the context of this start-up company. Conclude by giving your opinion on how it will impact performance.

1. ‘Fruits Delicious Ltd’ has hired you as an HR Advisor to help them improve their organizational performance. Which internal organizational aspects would you consider that should be aligned with each other for maximum success?

b. If Vinayak decides to go for Exports, what procedure and documents are required?

to sell the masks to Sri Lanka and Mauritius. He has also been contacted by a party in Gurgaon for sales. Also it has been observed that worldwide demand for BLDC energy Saving Electric fans is on the rise. Based on his production capacity Vinayak can either take up the North India market or plan for Exports.

2. Ryan always wanted to establish his own news agency. He had all the financial and physical resources required to begin but he was not aware of the key fundamental elements of an organization. Why do you think these are important? As an HR consultant, help him with this task by designing the main organizational elements. Also, align these with his business.

3. As project leaders, while Sandy believes in enhancing team member’s effectiveness, Mathew believes in focusing on enhancing the overall organizational effectiveness. This difference of opinion always confuses their team members. Now, the senior management has realized that it is high time to get the issue sorted. So, the HR Manager, Steve Hussey has been assigned the task to devise a standardized and holistic process of measuring organizational

Organisational Theory, Structure and Design

b. Draw the Gantt chart indicating the progress and resource used in each task.

2. To successfully organize the dinner party, analyze the project's feasibility in different life cycle phases with corresponding risks.

effectiveness. Along with this, the management has also asked him to come up with a contemporary effectiveness approach that will replace the traditional approaches. Keeping the above scenario in mind, a. Explain how Steve Hussey will devise a holistic process of measuring organizational effectiveness.

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b. Explain which, one, contemporary approach will Steve choose and why?

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a. Prepare a work breakdown structure.

3. For the same dinner party

1. Develop a sample research proposal to represent the various steps of hypotheticodeductive method.

2. What is meant by a dependent variable? Identify the one from the following theoretical model. State any six hypotheses from this model. Identify the mediating variable.

1. You are going to organize a dinner party with your 60 batch mates. Prepare a project proposal indicating the project charter and a detailed project budget.

3. Zomato was listed on 23 July 2021 on NSE at 126 INR which has toppled 46 INR on 30 July 2022. There has been a consistent decline in the revenue of

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a. Develop a questionnaire to survey the consumer and collect their response on what factors might be responsible for decline in consumers satisfaction?

1. The Clearing Corporation of India (CCIL) plays an important role in trading and settlement of Forex and Money Market Products in India. Discuss the role played by CCIL in Trading and settlement of Forex – Spot and Forwards (Forex Derivatives) for Bankers and FX-Retail for the Corporates.

2. Discuss the various Money Market Products traded & settled through Clearing Corporation of India Ltd (CCIL) amongst the various Market 3.participants.“Aprudent Interest Rate management ensures bank’s profitability and overall inflation stability in an economy”

a. Discuss the impact on Bank’s profitability and inflation when Repo increases and reduces respectively.

Zomato and increase in losses. The customers have raised concerns on poor quality of delivery and extra prices charged by Zomato. The manager is interested in identifying issues related to customer and other stakeholders for decline in the trust in brand.

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Treasury Management in Banking

b. Identify some interview questions that you would use for deriving qualitative responses? Who will be ideal respondent for the interview?

b. Highlight the differences between Repo Rate and Reverse Repo Rate.

1. The Internet of Things, or IoT, is a system of interrelated computing devices, mechanical and digital machines, objects, animals or people that are provided with unique identifiers (UIDs) and the ability to transfer data over a network without requiring human-to-human or human-to-computer interaction. The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) takes networked sensors and intelligent devices and puts those technologies to use directly on the manufacturing floor, collecting data to drive artificial intelligence and predictive analytics. As a consultant to an Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM), who wants to embrace this technology what are the potential benefits of this technology in Industrial Manufacturing that you will highlight to the firm? What are the challenges that these connected devices could bring that the firm needs to pay heed to?

2. The Indian retail industry has emerged as one of the most dynamic and fastpaced industries with the entry of several new players. The retail sector is experiencing exponential growth, with retail development taking place not just in major cities and metros, but also in Tier-II and Tier-III cities. With customer personalization and convenience being the center stage of most retail offerings, retailers have been experimenting with technology in store, via apps within their products. With the help of an example of a retail firm, elaborate how it uses IoT to improve operations and customer experience?

3. Augmented Reality (AR) is a technology that redefines the space and adds a virtual covering or layer over objects with complete geographic specificity. It digitizes your surroundings by creating virtual content in the real world. The disruptive technology has positively impacted various industries. One such industry where AR is rapidly spreading and creating ripples of impact is healthcare, a sector that is always willing to implement or adopt new technologies to further enhance its productivity and efficacy level. On the other hand, Virtual Reality (VR) is used in hospitals for surgery simulation, phobia

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b. What are the different challenges in implementing such VR system?

consults and gives you the information they have about the agents, hospitals, offices, employees, past claims, diseases, costs, customers, policies etc., all are in different data systems currently. They don’t have historical data on identified fraudulent claims.

2. An established health insurance company in India is planning to launch an IPO to raise funds for expansion into other markets nationally and internationally where they have low to nil market share. But potential investors are concerned about the rising cases of fraudulent claims in the health insurance industry and the companies’ inability to identify fraud and reduce the amount

treatment, robotic surgery and skills training. One of the advantages of this technology is that it allows healthcare professionals to learn new skills as well as refreshing existing ones in a safe environment.

Fundamentals of Big Data & Business Analytics

1. There are different types of business analytics procedures that can be performed based on the problem statement. Assume you’re working for a private commercial bank in India. Provide 3 different use cases that can be used at your organization where you could take advantage of the different types of business analytics procedures and create or add value to the organization you work for. Mention briefly about how those different types of business analytics could be used for each of the use cases.

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a. In your opinion, how can Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) be used to make it successful?

Suggest other ways in which they can use the data available with them and that in public domain to prove to potential investors that the growth potential and the vision of the company is strong and in right direction.

a. Which type of analytics will be best suited to solve this problem and which technique will you apply in this case? Explain the data needed to solve this b.problem.Explain the difference between BI and BA as to how can they help optimize supply chain in this case? Illustrate the possible outcome achieved in each case (BI vs. BA) and how they enable business objectives. You can make certain assumptions but highlight them clearly.

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How do you approach this problem holistically using both big data and business analytics concepts? Explain the big data component for storage and processing, and analytics component of approaching this use case and what would you do in each of them. Goal is to help company identify and narrow down the fraudulent claims.

IT Infrastructure Management

3. WHO (World Health Organization) has declared monkey pox as a new health emergency, which is wreaking havoc in many countries. Assuming the Indian government is preparing for another covid lockdown like situation, executives at D-Mart Stores decided that the situation offered a great opportunity for one of their newest data-driven weapons, something that the company calls predictive technology. A week ahead of the lockdown announcement, Mr Damani, DMart’s head, pressed his staff to come up with forecasts based on what had happened when covid struck in 2020.

a. Delivery Teams

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3. Facebook, Google, Microsoft and other big organizations have large data centers which contain many server farms. Server farms have found their applications in several fields in current times.

IT Project Management

a. Enlist and elaborate the applications of server farms?

1. Over the years government and private organizations have been promoting green computing. Suggest approaches that IT organizations can take to implement green computing.

b. If you are monitoring the server farm, what possible states can it be in?

1. A support service organization, as they are expanding their business, is planning to implement a planned project organization. As part of this activity, they are thinking about forming a steering committee. Explain the role of the steering committee.

2. A software development company is planning to start a new project and as part of initialization they want to first determine the project's feasibility. Provide your inputs for this feasibility study to analyze it from technical, economical, legal, operational and scheduling related feasibility standpoint.

2. If you have to utilize cloud computing in your organization, what are the design requirements you need to consider if the product chosen is Amazon S3?

3. Explain following types of offshore outsourcing service categories

b. Staff Augmentation

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2. What is Cloud scalability and Cloud elasticity? Explain how scalability and elasticity can solve underprovisioning and overprovisioning problems.

a. What are the multitenancy issues of virtualization?

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b. What is serverless computing?

1. You have been hired as a marketing consultant by a promising startup in escooter space to enhance their business productivity. Post the initial survey you discovered that the company is using traditional tools and methods for their online operations. To enhance the effectiveness of their operations, you decided to meet and explain to the management about the various online marketing strategies and tools that are typically useful for their e-businesses. What are the various kinds of online marketing tools and strategies that you can suggest to 2.them?Prepare a comparative analysis using pros and cons (minimum 2) for any 5 online shopping apps by comparing the methods for making a purchase using

1. A software development company based in Delhi has implemented cloud for its development activities. They are offering development services from Virtual Server A and to ensure availability, they have a redundant copy on Virtual Server B. IT resources can be horizontally scaled via the addition of one or more identical IT resource, and a load balancer that provides runtime logic capable of evenly distributing the workload among the available IT resources. Explain this Workload Distribution Architecture.

E-Business

3. Answer following questions

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their shopping carts. Also, compare Master and Visa cards, which uses an openloop payment system, with American Express, which uses a closed-loop payment by preparing a short note on their differences.

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3. b. Considering that cyberspace security is becoming a growing concern for any e-business in India, enlist five major security threats faced by e-businesses and also give examples of five softwares that could be used to secure its environment.

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3. a. The evolution of technology and penetration of internet has enabled ebusinesses to gain more prominence thereby generating sustainable revenue. Discuss the types of revenue models and the associated issues for doing ebusiness in the Indian context.

Six Sigma encompasses statistical tools and methodology to perform predictive analysis. Applying the DAMIC process teams must provide statistical

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analysis of Covid-19 pandemic from any 1 industry concern of your choice. Depending on the selected approach to address the concern different tools will be employed throughout DMAIC process to narrow Key Process Input Variables (KPIVs) that are driving unacceptable output(s). The analysis of the

2. Suppose you are working as a facilities manager in a big multi-specialty hospital which intends to adopt the lean technique for efficient management, identify any process/activity that needs improvement and create a board outline in brief using DMAIC methodology

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least 5 Indian companies which have implemented Six Sigma in a successful manner. Also specify at least 2 substantial benefits achieved from implementation by each of the 5 Indian companies.

concern utilizing DMAIC process must include only tools necessary to resolve the concern. The focus should concentrate on a clear and minimalistic path to resolving the concern. You are free to follow any research, data collection and or analysis methodology that you consider the most appropriate to address the required task.

1. With the help of an example, explain the different product/technology lifecycle stages. Use the example business scenario to explain different aspects of the product/technology lifecycle stages

3. a. Implementing Lean Six Sigma projects in various organizations have led to the reduction of different types of wastes (8 Mudas), provide example (any 1) of each type of waste reduced due to implementation of lean six sigma in that 3.organization.b.Enlistat

New Product Development and Managing Innovation

3. a. Why should companies innovate? How is innovation different from invention? Explain with the help of an example

2. SML Enterprises, a contract manufacturer of perfumes & deodorants for a large brand of perfumes & deodorants, is planning to launch its own brand of

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2. How is the Voice of the customer linked with the Voice of the organization in House of Quality?

3. b. Based on technology and market, what are the 4 different types of innovation? Provide an example for each.

World Class Operations

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1. Quality is an important parameter for companies to implement world class standards in operations. What are the different types of quality? Explain with suitable examples

3. a. Being an operations manager, what do you understand by BPR?

International Logistics & Supply Chain Management

1. Considering the various supply chain planning factors, suggest an appropriate supply chain strategy for a foreign manufacturer of branded luxury watches to enter the Indian market.

3. b. Explain the Principles of Re-engineering.

2. What are the different elements of product packaging? What roles does packaging serve? Look at packaging from the lens of eComm in India (eg. Amazon, Big Basket, Myntra, Meesho etc.) and what do you think is the significance of product packaging in this?

a. How can the company facilitate procurement from different sources across the globe? Suggest potential countries where the company can consider setting up some form of its operations for the same, and explain the form of operations & its benefit to the company.

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3. A large chain of gift shops has traditionally procured all its supplies of gift items & souvenirs from domestic manufacturers. With increasing competition from e-commerce companies, the chain is now looking to refresh its portfolio of products and wants to provide its customers the best of the products from across the globe.

perfumes & deodorants in the market. What will be the logistical requirements for the company’s foray into distribution of its branded products? Explain an appropriate choice of logistics outsourcing strategy for the company.

Advanced Supply Chain Management

b. What will be additional burden on the company in terms of requirements & the procedures to be followed for importing the products in India?

1. With the growth of global competition, many organizations find handling several operations in its supply chain not very productive and therefore consider to partner with a 3PL. Discuss what is a 3PL company and why is it considered an important link in a supply chain. Provide examples to support your stance.

2. An organization should develop and manage the supply chain drivers to emphasize the ideal balance between responsiveness and efficiency, depending on the business and financial requirements. Discuss the six main supply chain drivers the organization should focus on to move products from supply center to demand centers.

Brand Management

a. How Maxx can calculate the optimal level of inventory for this item.

3. Maxx Private limited stocks and distributes consumer items. It wants to maintain optimum inventory level of a regular selling item, so as to reduce the inventory cost. This item has a maximum daily demand of 15 units and a maximum lead time of 23 days. It also has an average daily demand of 7 units.

b. The steps that Maxx needs to take to manage its inventory for multiple-items in multiplelocations.

1. Sakshi has started her new business of selling pickles in Mumbai. There is no name to the brand as the same is sold in plastic jars available in the market. General customers remember the brand as Sakshi Tai’s (Sister) pickles. There is a continuous demand for the product and the total sales have touched 40 lakhs in 2021. You get to know about this and you want to offer help to Sakshi in creating brand elements for the pickles. Explain and elaborate on various types of Brand elements that you will suggest for the pickles. Also, explain the criteria for choosing brand elements.

3. a. Sakshi’s business has grown after your recommendation and suggestion. She has now planned to extend the market beyond pickles with the same name. She is planning to launch Papad, Chocolates, Pav Bhaji Masala, and Khakhra. Select the product categories that you will suggest Sakshi for Brand Extension

Suggest the following:

2. Sakshi is super impressed with your idea of Brand elements. You have also explained to her that a sustained effort in branding will make the brand work. She wants to understand various factors responsible for Brand Challenges. As a consultant, explain the same for the pickles that she is selling.

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Managing new customers

Manage the data of the customers and track them.

3. b. Select the unrelated product categories from the list and explain various disadvantages of Brand Extension that would be applicable.

a. How can he build traffic to his website?

You need to explain him, how CRM projects work and what are the considerations that he must keep in his mind.

b. How can he meet the expectations of his online customers?

He wants to automate some of the processes and he is unsure of which ones he wantsAutomateto.

reporting to the top management.

3. Rajeev started his food business a decade ago and has been doing extremely well. Although he was one of the pioneers, he is today facing a big issue with ‘loyalty of customers’ and serious competition. He is also planning to go online.

2. You have been called by your director at his office one evening for a cup of tea. Over the discussion he mentions how difficult is it for him to:

and explain various advantages of Brand Extension that would be suitable to Sakshi for the selected products.

1. You work as a vice president of a pharma company. You are planning to implement CRM in your company. What are the things will you consider before deciding on analytical, strategic or operational CRM?

2. An entrepreneur wants to expand her eco-friendly home decor items business PAN India. What stage of Product life cycle should she consider for expansion & what would be your suggestion to her?

following case study carefully and then answer the questions that follow: Your firm manufactures EV bicycles in India and wishes to market them globally. In spite of competition, you see that South Africa has a huge potential and plan to expand your retail operations in South Africa.

opinion do you think we should permit FDI and FII to invest in our 3.country?Readthe

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1. As each country today thinks about restricting imports and protecting their markets, what in your opinion still motivates firms to engage in International 2.business?Inyour

1. An organic cosmetic e-tailer writes an interesting blog about its products & shows reviews from its buyers & influencers which lead to more sales. Which marketing strategy would you classify this into - Push or pull?

3. Case Study:

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b. Explain major global pricing policies. Which of these pricing policies would you consider while launching the EV bicycles in South Africa?

International Marketing

a. Explain your market entry strategy to launch the EV bicycles in South Africa.

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Kingfisher Airlines (KFA) launched its domestic air service operations in May 2005. KFA was promoted by the UB Group and was positioned as a budget carrier that offered a single class- "Kingfisher Class'. KFA was one among the very few airlines which offered discounted ticket prices with its aggressive pricing strategy. KFA successfully leveraged the youthful and vibrant image of its Kingfisher Beer brand and called its airlines as 'Funliners' to emphasize the fun-filled experience. It had targeted most of the customers in the age group of 25-40 years. Within the first six months of its launch, KFA managed to corner a 6% market share in the domestic air travel market. KFA also had plans to operate on international routes. However, the increasing popularity of low-cost airlines like Air Deccan, launch of new low-cost carriers like SpiceJet and GoAir, and Jet Airways' acquisition of Air Sahara, further intensified the competition in the Indian aviation sector. In an effort to make KFA profitable at the earliest, KFA modified its 'single class' approach and began to offer an upgraded business class service- 'Kingfisher First'.

Sales Management

b. Understand the opportunities and challenges for a newly established airline in the Indian aviation industry

1. Pharmaceutical salespeople are known to be given aggressive sales quotas and targets. Sales quota and target setting has 4 methodologies namely sales volume target/quota, activity target/ quota, profit target/quota and expenses/target quota. From your understanding of the pharma industry, what kind of sales target/quota methodology would you use for the pharma sales team and why?

a. Discuss the marketing techniques adopted by Kingfisher Airlines.

3. Wipro is an Indian multinational with its headquarters based in Bangalore. It has total revenue of $9 Billion with net income of $1.4 Billion across all its business units which has both information technology and FMCG (Fast Moving consumer goods) products. Based on the success of local laptop brands in the Indian marketplace like HCL, Wipro would like to re-enter the laptop segment in India. Laptops as a product category fall in both the B2B (Business to Business) as well as B2C (Business to consumer) segments. As the Vice President Sales for Wipro laptops, you are required to come out with a sales management strategy covering sales methodology and budgeting:

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Corporate Finance

2. Sales forecasting is one of the most important tools for any large organizations to meet its revenue estimates. Popular forecasting tools are jury of executive opinion, poll of sales force opinion, projection of past sales, time series analysis and exponential smoothing. What method would you recommend for a startup organizations and why?

1. Refer the published Balance Sheet of any listed Company. Identify its sources of funds. Explain any 4 in brief. (Balance Sheet need not to be copied or pasted in the answer) Compare and rank the sources identified with respect to their cost to the company (high, low). Discuss your observation

a. Out of the 5 theories of buying namely AIDAS, Buying Formula theory, Behavioral equation theory SPIN and Right set of circumstances theory, which would be used by you to build a sales methodology for Wipro laptops? Please justify your choice of methodology

b. Out of the top down and bottom up methodology for setting budgets which of them would be used by you for Wipro laptops division and why?

Evaluate the projects using:

Year A B 0 -40000 -50000 1 5000 8500 2 12000 15000 3 10000 12000 4 12500 12300 5 10500 10500

2. M/s Priya Industries Ltd. is evaluating 2 options of investments. Each one has the following mentioned Cash Flows.

i) Invest Rs. 3 lacs for 5 years earn an interest of 8% compounded quarterly.

i) Pay-back period ii) iii)NPVIRR (Show the calculations for each method.)

3. a. Sunil is valuating 2 investment proposals:

ii) Investment of Rs. 20,000 per year for 5 years @ 10% compounded quarterly. Which option should he go for and why?

Which option you as the Chief Finance Officer of the Company would you select? Give reasons.

3. b. Sanjana has a debenture of Par-value Rs. 100/- @ 6%. Calculate its current yield if:

ii) Market Price is Rs. 102.00

You are required to help him with the below questions he has:

i) Market Price is Rs. 98.20

(c) What is a cross rate? If the bid and ask rate for EUR-USD are available as EUR

1. An Indian company is in the process to acquire land oversees for setting a manufacturing plant in Europe. This helps in the reduction of company’s production cost by 30%. For this, company needs an investment of USD 50 million. Company has approached an ABV Bank to suggest a plan for capital borrowing at least for the time frame for five to six years. Assume yourself in a role of senior manager of ABV Bank. Suggest the mix of different international sources from where company can raise the capital. Make the necessary assumptions, if required.

Bid Price: INR / EURO = 80.8300

International Finance

2. A forex trader from Mumbai collects the below information regarding the exchange rate between INR and EURO:

(a) What is the direct exchange rate of INR-EURO for the trader?

(b) What is the indirect exchange rate of INR-EURO for the trader?

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What inference can you draw from this about the relation between Market price and yield?

Ask Price: INR / EURO = 80.8400

Taxation- Direct and Indirect

2. GST N is a non-government body. This body handles the IT system of the GST Portal. Discuss the functions discharged by the GSTN in details

3. Mrs Meera purchased a residential house property on August 6, 2019for R 30 lakhs. She made certain capital expenditure for the house in the month of January 2020 for Rs2 lakhs. She disposed off the property in April 2021, for Rs 40Lakhs.

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1. For the purpose of charging taxes, the Indian Income Tax Act, 1961 has identified and defined the specific heads of income. The charging sections of each head defines the scope of income to be charged under each head. Discuss precisely all the heads of income as mentioned under the Income Tax Act 1961.

1.0200-1.0300/USD, what would be the bid-ask rates for INR/USD, using the crossrate method.

3. A US company has exported goods worth Eur 100 million, receivable after 3 months, to a Germany based company. The forward rates are expressed as: EUR-USD Spot 1.0973 – 1.0974 Three months Forward 75.5 – 76.0

b. Suppose USD is depreciating. Should the US exporter go for hedging the risk? If he hedges the risk with a forward contract and the actual spot rate after 3 months turns out to be the same as the currency spot rate, what is his notional profit/ loss?

a. Is the EUR quoting at discount or premium to the USD? What is the forward rate applicable at which the US company will enter into a forward contract?

3. a. Manya is a broker at an insurance firm and has a good understanding of various instruments sold in the Indian insurance Markets. She is now curious about the products sold under the life insurance policy and the constituents who will help a client in this process. You are therefore required to help Manya understand various life insurance policies along with the participants involved in such a market.

1. Ambit Ltd. is one of the major players dealing in FMCG products in India. The company now intends to launch a range of FMCG for fitness-conscious people and plans to market it by opening its own retail outlets. So, the management of the company is planning to raise further fresh capital by issuing shares in the primary market. As a financial advisor to the firm advise the various techniques which the company can use in order to raise fresh capital from the primary market.

a. Discuss about the exemption available under section 54

3. b. Ramya started her handmade bags business 5 years ago and is now starting a new project of cotton clothes for which, she needs a huge amount of capital. Her friends suggested she approach Venture Capitalists for her capital

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b. Considering Section 54, Discuss the amount of exemption if any, amount of type of capital gain taxable in the hands of Mrs. Meera if she purchased another property from the sales proceed in the month of May 2021.

2. Pooja is a new joiner at a financial advisory firm. Her first task given by the manager is to prepare a report on any four each money market instruments that she would advise her client to invest in for a short time period. Prepare a report for Pooja to complete her first task.

Financial Institutions and Markets

Year Project 1 Project 2

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1 - 60,000 2 30,000 84,000 3 1,32,000 96,000 4 84,000 1,02,000 5 84,000 90,000

Strategic Financial Management

1. Bharat Limited has to make a decision to select any one project. The projects are: project 1 – investment in rubber rollers and project 2 – manufacture of automobile components. The initial investments are Rs.1,35,000 for project 1 and Rs.2,40,000 for project 2. There will be no scrap value at the end of the life of both projects. The opportunity cost of capital of the company is 16 percent. The annual incomes are as under:

2. Walter and Gordon both proposed a model of share valuation which states the relationship between dividend policies and the market value of the firm. Both models are similar to each other yet have differences. Discuss the similarities and differences of both models using a numerical example.

You are required to compute the Net present value for Project 1 and Project 2. Discuss the criteria to accept or reject a project based on NPV. What other criteria can be looked into to decide on which project to accept?

requirements. In the light of the above case, explain to Ramya the concept of Venture Capital and the stage of funding involved in Venture Capital Financing.

b. If the bond is issued at Rs. 8,000, compute the yield assuming the bond is held till maturity?

1. The following information is available for a pen making business. Calculate the following:

Strategic Cost Management

Ink cost Rs. 5 per ml. 2 ml of Ink is required for each pen.

Ball bearings Rs. 3 per bearing Sticker on the pen Rs. 2 per sticker.

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2. Select the Financial Statements (Balance sheet / Profit & Loss) of any listed Company. Explain the use of and calculate any 5 ratios. Analyse.

b) PV Ratio

c) BE Ratio (in no. of units and value)

Fixed Costs Rs. 6,00,000 p.a.

e) Number of pens to be sold to get a profit of Rs. 20,000/Sales Price of the pen Rs. 100/- each Cost of refill Rs. 10/- per refill.

d) MOS

a) Contribution

a. Assuming a yield of 12 percent, at what price would you buy the bond?

3. Government of India has approved the issue of Deep discount bonds of Rural Electrification Corporation Limited with a face value of Rs. 30,000 having a life of 10 years. The planned yield for the investors is 12 percent.

3. b. Sanjay is the owner of SSR Pvt. Ltd. He needs to item ‘A’ for his business. He can buy the item at Rs. 50/- per piece. Alternatively, he can produce it inhouse. His accountant produces an estimate of the costs of production for the item. Basis that he advises Sanjay not to produce the item in-house as it was costlier. Comment on whether the accountant is right or not. Support with

Rent of factory allocated to Item A Rs. 18 per unit

3. a. Explain what is meant by product mix analysis. What are the considerations to make product mix decisions.

Directanalysis.Material

Power cost Rs. 5 per unit

Direct Labour Rs. 10 per unit

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1. Discuss the steps involved in purchasing and supply procedures briefly. Imagine you are a procurement manager for a leading mobile manufacturer. What parameters would you assign for your supplier selection, for the procurement of mobile components? Also assign weightage for the parameters and justify selection process.

Cost Rs. 20 per unit

2. As a procurement manager, contract cancellations too are equally important decisions to be taken similar to signing of contract. Bring out the type of contract cancellations. Cite examples and highlight severity of cancellations and implications of the cancellation of contracts.

Depreciation of Plant used for manufacturing A Rs. 6 per unit.

Procurement Management

1. There is XYZ Ltd Company operating in retail business and having numerous products. Because of dynamic market condition, company is facing lots of problems such as decrease revenue, increase operations cost, competition etc. Suggest organisation to implement focused operations strategy that improve the efficiency of the firm.

3. a. ‘Bring out the difference between procurement of capital equipment and a capital asset’. What are the factors to be considered while purchasing them?

2. You have been appointed as supply chain consultant in E-Commerce Company. Company operates in various products line such as books, mobile phones, laptops, apparels etc. To increase customer base top management of the firm is thinking to acquire furniture startup. Simultaneously company also need to focus on exiting business model. Analyse and suggest a different level of strategies that you will implement in the firm that can improve overall business

a. Explain existing situation of company with respected to industry life cycle.

3.profit.Atraditional

pharmacy company is planning to start online channel to reach better geographic location. Company spends huge amount of money in technology to improve supply chain. Company also took help from third party logistics to deliver the orders.

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3. b. Milk Basket (an e commerce grocery seller) appoints you as a purchasing manager for its perishable product department. How can your contribution to the purchasing department enhance overall organizational performance through following e procurement strategies?

Operations and Supply Chain Strategies

Enterprise Resource Planning

1. Poka-Yoke, a Japanese term, are mechanisms used to eliminate errors by effectively making it impossible to make mistakes in a given process. And they can be used everywhere. Discuss the objectives of Poka-Yoke and its techniques that can be applied at various levels of a process with examples.

Total Quality Management

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a. Materials Management (MM)

b. Explain different competitive advantage that ultimately help company to get better position in market.

2. A Quality Circle leader is confused about the seven basic quality tools, and approaches you to help him in using a tool for identifying the root cause of the problem. Discuss with example what tool will you advise him to use and how it is used.

3. Explain the functionality of the following two modules of SAP as mentioned in Annex 3.

b. Sales and Distribution (SD)

1. Explain the key factors that made BPCL consider implementing the ERP. Was this organisation adequately prepared to take up such a large technology project? Justify your answer by giving suitable illustrations.

2. Explain the Business Case or Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA) the company expected to achieve through this ERP implementation. Identify key areas of improvement expected through this ERP implementation.

3. In a continuous, automatic bottling of mineral water plant, the quality inspector wants to plot a x bar chart to monitor the volume of water in the bottles being filled. She has taken 30 samples with 4 observations each. The process average is 250 ml and standard deviation is 0.16 ml.

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3. The Healthcare sector is one the most prominent in the service sector. Many processes are involved in this sector by various organisation. Hence it becomes critical for Healthcare Institutes to plan their processes in different ways to provide the best possible services to their customers. Highlight the attempts of these organisations from the following aspects as given below.

b. What are the main objectives of process capability?

Service Operations Management

a. Calculate the upper and lower control limits for the process.

1. Define and briefly explain the term ‘Service Design’. What are the various approaches that organizations adopt to implement ‘Service Design’? Explain with examples for the approaches for a restaurant setup (choose any one reference setup of your own choice)

2. What are the factors/dimensions which are considered important by an organisation while evaluating Quality in Service Operations? Elaborate your answer with an example from the Education Sector.

a. Discuss the elements that need to be planned in a Service Framework of a Healthcare setup.

b. To ensure that all processes will run effectively and error free, how can healthcare services adopt the concept of Service Design (Blueprinting) for their service operations.

Retail Banking

a. What is the vision of Government in this regard?

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3. Branchless banking is one step towards Financial Inclusion Policy of Government of India.

1. Securitization is the new buzzword in retail banking as it converts loans/assets into receivables. Banks need not wait for repayment of loans as sufficient funds are created to plough back as capital in the bank. Explain how securitization works and is treated as credit risk mitigation tool.

2. Retail banking in India, especially in context of growing economy and millennial young population is getting stronger day by day. Discuss retail banking as a simplification & diversification tool.

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b. Enumerate different technologies used in banking sector to achieve the goal of bringing more people under banking ambit.

b. How to manage or mitigate NPAs effectively

3. Stressed Assets or Non-Performing Assets (NPAs) in the cancer of Banking sector and the subject of much discussion and scrutiny. Today banks are burdened with high NPAs and decreasing profitability. The banks capacity to lend has been severely affected by mounting NPAs, net worth of many banks have eroded and a number of banks have reported huge losses. Though many remedial steps have been taken to check this malady but solution seems to ebb out/fade away. In light of above statements:

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1. Explain the concept of Online Marketing of financial services. How is it changing the way financial services are sold in India?

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1. There is an ongoing debate whether Central Bank (RBI) should be independent of the Central Government dictates/control or it should be under the control of Central government. What is your view on the same, supplement your answer with reasoning/logic with instances in the past in context of India.

Commercial Banking System & Role of RBI

2. The survival of brick and mortar banking today is a major challenge today from host of its competitors that includes NBFCs, Fintech, Shadow banking and latest Neo Banking. Technology which at one time was savior of banks in early 1990s now seems to gobble up the banks. What do you think is the future of traditional banks and will they survive the onslaught of Neo Banks. Focus your answer in perspective of Indian conditions.

a. Explain the reasons for increasing NPAs since last decade

3. You are a Financial Planner. Your clients Ameet ( aged 33 years) and Supriya (aged 31 years), have a daughter Rima (aged 3 years) require your help to make few financial decisions. (You can make any assumptions to further build up your case.)

2. One of your clients wants to apply for a Home Loan in the next 12 to 18 months. Few months back the client had lost his job and delayed his car loan repayments. The client is worried that this may impact his credit score maintained by Credit Bureaus. Suggest a roadmap to your client to improve his credit score.

a. Ameet wants to buy a Life Insurance cover within a limited budget. He is confused whether he should buy a ULIP or a Term Plan. Recommend the product best suited for him giving valid reasons.

b. Ameet and Supriya want to invest for their daughter Rima’s higher education for the long term (over 15 to 17 years). They want to know whether they should make lump sum equity mutual fund investments or invest in SIPs of Equity MFs.

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Tax Insurance and Retirement Planning

1. Vaibhav Kabra has joined XYZ Ltd. as the Risk Manager, and he has assigned his subordinate the task of preparing a report on the client's Risk Management. Please assist the subordinate in understanding risk management and how to manage risks.

2. An Insurance Company has appointed you as a sales manager and you have to train your subordinates on how to pitch to customers and how to explain the mechanism of insurance to them to convert them to consumers. Explain the mechanism of Insurance.

3. Open currency position is subjected to exchange rate risk. Suppose you are doing training in the treasury department of bank. The manager has asked you to prepare report on the following:

a. What amount should Krishnan should invest today?

3. Mr. Krishnan wants his son to go to Oxford University for an MBA degree, with a tuition fee of 50 lakh rupees due at the time of admission. His son just started graduation and will graduate in three years. Krishnan plans to invest in mutual funds that provide a return of 10% per year, so he can receive 50 lakh rupees after three years. Kindly suggest what amount Krishnan should invest in mutual funds right now, so he should receive 50 lakh after 3 years.

International Banking & Foreign Exchange Management

1. Your company is planning to expand its operations to other countries. Imagine yourself in the role of company’s financial manager. Management has asked you to explain them about the forex market and its functioning and how their company business would get affected by it?

2. An Indian import export house has a currency exposure to 10 million Japanese Yen. Assume that Yen is not directly quoted against INR. The current spot rates are USD/INR = 79.97 and USD/JPY =137.56. It is estimated that Yen will depreciate to 164 level and Rupee to depreciate against Dollar to 83. The Forward rate for December 2022 USD/YEN = 147.56 and USD/INR 82.52.

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Given that the actual spot rate on 30 December 2022 was USD/YEN = 137.85 and USD/INR = 79.99, what hedging decisions an Indian company should take?

b. Suggest which type of life insurance policy should be purchased by Krishnan for his son.

2. Why Performance Appraisal is important? What can be the threats to performance appraisal?

1. Automobile spare parts Ltd, an Indian company is planning an international expansion. The company has decided to start its manufacturing plant and office in Kenya. You have been appointed as a consultant to advise the HR Head of the company on undertaking International Human Resource Planning.

Manpower Planning, Recruitment and Selection

International HR Practices

a. Position limits on a currency that a dealer can carry during regular trading b.hours.Position

3. 360- degree feedback is effective way of appraising the performance of employees provided it is designed and implemented scientifically.

b. While using this method, organizations might come across some difficulties. What kind of difficulties can be faced by the organizations and how those difficulties can be addressed?

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1. What are the common difficulties faced by IT companies related to manpower planning?

a. Give reasons of how 360 degrees feedback is an effective method of performance appraisal.

limits on a currency that a dealer can carry over to the next day up to this limit.

Which approach or structure of International compensation, does the company could have been offered to the ex-pat? What factors could have been considered before moving employees to a foreign country?

b. What could be the challenges faced by repatriates while returning to their homeland?

2. SSI limited an Indian-based IT company opens a subsidiary in London. Many internal IT consultants applied for Internal Job postings and out of 20 applicants, 3 got the opportunity to work in a London subsidiary. After 4 months, one of the employees wishes to come back to their home country and he reaches out to you (the HR team ). He says it’s difficult for him to sustain in London with the current compensation as the cost of living is too high.

What issues and challenges are organizations to be prepared for while operating in the International scenario ?

Explain 5 important points, which you advise to the HR Head to undertake International Human Resource Planning

You did a deep dive and reviewed the situation. What are the causes you could identify and how will you address this?

3. Ace Engineering is Mumbai, India-based heavy engineering company specializing in transformer manufacturing and setup projects. It’s now planning to set up a project management office in Warsaw, Poland. For this, there will be a team of 15 project experts moving from India and 2 from France to Poland for 6 months and will return to their home countries after 6 months, including a senior manager coming from France.

a. How will you (in the Global HR role) plan and prepare for the repatriation process for these returnees?

Industrial Relations & Labour Laws

a. AITUC and INTUC

2. “Forever Young” is a women’s premium brand dealing with women’s apparel, shoes, bags and other accessories. The brand has a pan-India presence in malls and online shopping. It has plans of launching globally starting with South East Asian countries. Prepare a Balanced Scorecard for “Forever Young” covering one goal each in Financial, Customer, Business Process and Learning & Growth quadrant.

1. ‘The industrial relations scenario has been perceived differently by different practitioners and theorists’, Explain.

3. Write briefly on:

b. BMS and HMS

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Performance Management System

1. Jagruti Electric Motors is a startup company and has just introduced Two Wheeler electric scooters in India. The marketing team consists of 10 employees. You lead the marketing team and you need to prepare four Team goals that the marketing team needs to focus on. Use the concept of SMART goals while preparing the Team goals.

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2. Trade unions in India have evolved after independence. Elaborate.

3. Using ‘’cost effectiveness’’ as the theme, prepare two SMART each for the following profiles :

a. Production Executive at a manufacturing company

1. In spite of the resistance from top management, Mr. Ajay – HR Head at Magnum Ceramics has been investing on development of the employees. Lately he has been noticing that it is not giving the desired results. Comment on steps in employee development process that helps him meet the objectives of the program.

2. Career planning has always been a pretty low-priority item for Bombay Design Co., since "just getting workers to come to work and then keeping them honest is enough of a problem" as Varun likes to say. Yet Vrinda thought it might not be a bad idea to give some thought to what a career planning program might involve for the company. Many of their employees had been with them for years in dead-end jobs, and she frankly felt a little bad for them: "Perhaps we could help them gain a better perspective on what they want to do, " she thought. And she definitely believed that career support would have an effect on improving company’s employee retention. Outline and describe the career planning process you would propose for the designers working with the

3.companyZeeInc.

has its plants in different areas in the country. The company provided both in company and out-companies executive development programs. In Company programs included orientation programs for apprentice Assistant Executive Engineers. It had a staff college at Pune. Programs were conducted at staff college for all types of personnel. Incompany programs included quality management, participative management, time management, etc. The best faculty was drawn from Indian Institute of Management, Universities, and Professional Bodies etc. apart from the four permanent and internal faculties. At present all

b. Dispatch Executive at a Logistics company

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Employee Development & Talent Management

1. Your company, an Agritech startup which had a humble beginning is now gone for merger with a big MNC. Looking at that now the new management has decided to formulate compensation strategies. Before penning down the strategies, the HR Manager considers it necessary to identify factors that influence the compensation strategies. You, as an employee of HR Department, are assigned this task of identifying these factors.

2. In the past few years your organization has achieved marvelous results and had manifold growth. The success of the organization has skyrocketed based on which you are opening up a subsidiary in various other foreign(country) locations. You as HR manager has to device an international compensation. To

the four permanent faculty positions are vacant. Evaluation of management development programs is done as a ritual rather than to make it a part of development process. Evaluation of in-company program is done at Staff College with the objectives of knowing the participants learning and to know how far the participants have found the program useful. The staff college sends no formal feedback to the functional heads of the departments and also to the corporate personnel and administrative department. It appears to be no formal system that provides the feedback from the participants and out company programs to their respective functional heads. There exists no evaluation model with pre-training and post-training evaluation and no efforts are made to develop evaluation techniques.

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a. Find out the purpose of evaluating the management development programs.

b. Explain the Kirkpatrick’s Model of Evaluation to overcome the problems in the case

Compensation and Benefits

b. Explain to them types of survey, which you would want to do and suggest which would be best suited for the organization.

2. The entrepreneurial bug has bitten you and food business is in your mind. There are numerous challenges, however. What are the challenges you anticipate coming your way while designing your service offering?

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3. Food & Health Pvt Ltd is a wholesome and organic food chain which after capturing a huge and overwhelming success in the online market is now venturing into retail business. The HR is now confused because earlier all their employees were part time or work from home but now, they have to engage people in full time capacity. You are an Asst. Manager HR and have been asked by your senior to do work on this issue. You have an idea to formalize this through compensation survey

a. Explain to them what is salary /compensation survey and how will it serve purpose in Food & Health?

your management present what is an international compensation and its the key components (discuss all components in detail)

1. You are the owner of a retail chain. You currently have a consumer durables, groceries, and private label clothing range for kids, men, and women. The quality you offer is fantastic. You have more than eighty percent repeat customers. Most of the customer surveys that you have conducted with market research agencies have pointed out this unique feature of your store. You have successfully operated your business in Delhi. You now intend to go online. How will you promote your online brand?

b. How will you deal with your complaining customers?

Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Management

1. Starting a venture is not an easy task. A series of activities need to be planned and undertaken to create an enterprise. Discuss.

3. Hemant’s grandfather owned a huge agricultural firm in the name of ‘Organica’. The company had huge acres of land in Kerala where it grew spices. The company planned to expand and was planning to buy land in Coorg, Karnataka where it will grow coffee. While visiting the place, Hemant saw that the villagers had to walk more than 10 kms of hilly terrain to reach the hospital and he also felt that the villagers did not have any work in the evening apart from doing agricultural work in the morning. For expansion purposes he required money and the chief financial officer of his company suggested that they raise the required funds directly from the public. Hemant also decided to

3. Blazers academy is a coaching academy, that provides training, coaching, and counseling services for students. Their primary revenue source is from the coaching they do for medical and JEE. Established a decade ago, it is now a well-known brand but faces severe competition from the crowded market in the coaching space. Two major challenges are coming your way. First, the brand is taking a hit online. There are a lot of negative reviews about the brand and the second challenge that you are facing is with the rising number of students, your back-end servicing of the customer, and student problems have been poor. It is clearly visible from the verbatim feedback given by the stakeholders.

a. How will you build your service brand?

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2. “Innovation is the hallmark of Entrepreneurship”. Explain the statement with an example.

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b. What is the primary advantage that Hemant gains from the method he chooses to opt for funding?

a. Explain the method of raising funds.

open a hospital and a skill development centre for the villagers in the evening wherein they can learn a lot of new skills.

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