Fall / August 2012 Master of Business Administration- MBA Semester 1 MB0038 –Management Process and Organizational Behaviour - 4 Credits (Book ID:B1621) Assignment Set- 1 (60 Marks) Note: Each Question carries 10 marks. Answer all the questions. Q1. Explain strategy as an organisational process. Q2. What are the factors that influences span of control? Q3. What are the types of plans found in organisations? Q4. What are the characteristics of an effective team? Q5. What are the internal and external forces of organisational change? Q6. Ms. Janice Alisha is a General Manager of Production in a company. She finds that there is a need to improve the motivation level of the employees. Suggest some of the motivational tools that she can use to improve employee motivation in her organisation.
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Fall / August 2012
Master of Business Administration- MBA Semester 1
MB0038 –Management Process and Organizational Behaviour - 4 Credits
(Book ID:B1621)
Assignment Set- 1 (60 Marks)
Note: Each Question carries 10 marks. Answer all the questions.
Q1. Explain strategy as an organisational process.
Q2. What are the factors that influences span of control?
Q3. What are the types of plans found in organisations?
Q4. What are the characteristics of an effective team?
Q5. What are the internal and external forces of organisational change?
Q6. Ms. Janice Alisha is a General Manager of Production in a company. She finds that there is a need to
improve the motivation level of the employees. Suggest some of the motivational tools that she can
use to improve employee motivation in her organisation.
Fall / August 2012
Master of Business Administration- MBA Semester 1
MB0038 –Management Process and Organizational Behaviour - 4 Credits
(Book ID:B1621)
Assignment Set- 2 (60 Marks)
Note: Each Question carries 10 marks. Answer all the questions.
Q1. What are the principles of management?
Q2. What are the characteristics of leading?
Q3. Briefly explain the four main approaches to Organisational Behaviour.
Q4. Explain the five major leadership styles as per the Managerial Grid theory.
Q5. List some of the commonly found perceptual biases.
Q6. Suppose you are the Team Manager in a multinational company with team strength of 12 members.
You are given the responsibility of ensuring that the team gives excellent performance or results.
What are the key issues you have to handle in team building?
Fall/August 2012
Master of Business Administration- MBA Semester 1
MB0039 – Business Communication - 4 Credits
(Book ID: B1624)
Assignment Set - 1 (60 Marks)
Note: Each question carries 10 Marks. Answer all the questions.
1. Explain briefly the characteristics of communication.
2. Name the communication channel to which teleconferencing, Email, and telephone
belongs to. Explain teleconferencing.
3. “Informal communication network is not just for idle rumours and may be useful in many
ways.” Justify.
4. Explain some of the approaches for handling customer complaints and listening to
customers.
5. Explain briefly the four steps of the review process.
6. Explain the different delivery styles that speakers can select for their presentation.
Fall/August 2012
Master of Business Administration- MBA Semester 1
MB0039 – Business Communication - 4 Credits
(Book ID: B1624)
Assignment Set - 2 (60 Marks)
Note: Each question carries 10 Marks. Answer all the questions.
1. Explain the five steps of SQ3R techniques of reading.
2. Write a note on the responsibilities of chairperson during a meeting.
3. When you write a memo what language and writing style will you follow, explain.
4. What is sampling? Briefly explain the various methods of sampling.
5. Explain the principles that you need to follow while using emails for business
communication.
6. Select a company of your choice. Write a sales letter in the AIDA format to a prospective
customer, persuading him/her to buy the company’s product.
Fall 2012
Master of Business Administration- MBA Semester 1
MB0040 – Statistics for Management - 4 Credits
(Book ID: B1623)
Assignment Set - 1 (60 Marks)
Note: Each question carries 10 Marks. Answer all the questions.
1. Mention the characteristics of Statistics. Explain any two applications of
Statistics.
2. Distinguish between primary and secondary data. What are the methods of
collecting primary data?
3. Find Karl Pearson’s correlation coefficient between the sales and expenses from
the data given below:
Sales
(Rs. Lakhs)
50 50 55 60 65 65 65 60 60 50
Expenses
(Rs. Lakhs)
11 13 14 16 16 15 15 14 13 13
4. The incidence of occupational disease in an industry is such that the workers
have a 20% chance of suffering from it. What is the probability that out of six
workers 4 or more will contract the disease?
5. Use chi-square test to test if the two attributes (Performance and Training) in the
following table are independent. Test at 5% level of significance.
Performance
Training
Intensive Good Average Total
Above Average 100 150 40 290
Average 100 100 100 300
Poor 50 80 150 280
Total 250 330 290 870
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6. Construct index numbers of price for the following data by applying:
i) Laspeyre’s method
ii) Paasche’s method
iii) Fisher’s Ideal Index number
Commodity
Base year Current year
Price Quantity Price Quantity
A 2 8 4 6
B 5 10 6 5
C 4 14 5 10
D 2 19 2 13
Fall 2012
Master of Business Administration- MBA Semester 1
MB0040 – Statistics for Management - 4 Credits
(Book ID: B1623)
Assignment Set - 2 (60 Marks)
Note: Each question carries 10 Marks. Answer all the questions.
1. Distinguish between Classification and Tabulation of data. What are the types of
Classification of data?
2. Calculate mean and median for the following data
Marks 0-20 20-40 40-60 60-80 80-100 100-120 120-140
No of
Students
4 26 22 10 9 6 3
3. Calculate the regression equations of X on Y and Y on X from the following data:
X 1 2 3 4 5
Y 2 5 3 8 7
4. What is sampling? Briefly explain the various methods of sampling.
5. A company appoints four salesmen, A, B, C and D, and observes their sales in
three seasons- summer, winter and monsoon. The figures ( in lakhs) are given in
the following table:
Season
Salesman
A B C D Total
Summer 36 36 21 35 128
Winter 28 29 31 32 120
Monsoon 26 28 29 29 112
Total 90 93 81 96 360
Carry out an analysis of variance at 5% level of significance.
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6. The mean wage is Rs. 75 per day, SD wage is Rs 5 per day for a group of 1000
workers and the same is Rs 60 and Rs 4.5 for the other group of 1500 workers.
Find mean and standard deviation for the entire group.
Fall 2012
Master of Business Administration- MBA Semester 1
MB0041 – Financial And Management Accounting - 4 Credits
(Book ID: B1624)
Assignment Set - 1 (60 Marks)
Note: Each question carries 10 Marks. Answer all the questions.
1. Explain the process involved in accounting.
2. The salaries paid in 2004 is Rs. 5,00,000; Salaries outstanding is
Rs. 20,000; Salaries paid in advance for 2004 is Rs. 30,000. What is the actual salary
expenditure for 2004? Which accounting principle is involved in this and explain that
principle.
3. Find the value of the following:
a. If the total assets are Rs. 87,000 and the liabilities are Rs. 47,000, find out the
amount of capital.
b. If the capital of proprietor is Rs. 4,00,000 and the total assets are Rs. 6,00,000,
what is the amount of liabilities to outsiders?
c. If creditors are Rs. 56,000, bank overdraft is Rs.1,00,000, and outstanding
expenses are Rs. 8,000, what is the total amount of assets?
d. Fixed assets are Rs.70,000 and current assets are Rs.1,00,000 and the creditors
are Rs.30,000. What is capital?
4. Enter the following transactions in the single column cash book of Gopichand.
March, 2003
1st. Commenced business with cash 20000
2nd. Bought goods for cash 5000
3rd. Sold goods for cash 4000
4th. Goods purchased from Ravi Kumar 10000
10th. Paid to Ravi Kumar 7000
14th. Cash sales 8000
18th. Purchased furniture for office 4000
22nd. Paid wages 500
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25th. Paid rent 600
30th. Received commission 4000
30th. Withdrew for personal purpose 1000
Cash balance 170000
Hint: Goods Purchased from Ravi Kumar is a credit purchase.
5. Find out the missing figures.
Office stationery Consumables
Opening stock 5000 8000
Purchased during the year 25000 ?
Closing stock 3000 6000
Consumed for the year ? 24000
Hint : Office stationery consumed for the year =27000
Consumables purchased during the year = 22000
6. Explain the tools of management accounting.
Master of Business Administration- MBA Semester 1
Fall 2012
MB0041 – Financial and Management Accounting- 4 Credits
(Book ID: B1624)
Assignment Set - 2 (60 Marks)
Note: Each question carries 10 Marks. Answer all the questions.
1. Compute trend ratios and comment on the financial performance of Infosys
Technologies Ltd. from the following extract of its income statements of five years.