Course Title: Strategic Management
ASSIGNMENT
(Semester IV )
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Course Code: MS-11
Course Title: Strategic Management.
Q.1 What do you mean by strategy? Explain the nature of strategy. Differentiate between strategy and programmes, procedures and rules.
Q.2 What are objectives? How are they set? State the characteristics of objectives. How will you set objectives for a large organization ?Assume imaginary details.
Q.3 Explain briefly the five forces framework and use it for analyzing competitive environment of any industry of your choice.
Q.4 What do you understand by the term critical success factor and what is the core competency of and organization?
Q.5 It is often stated that Indian economy is high-cost economy. Do you agree with the statement? Support your answer with some facts and figures. what are their causes of high cost levels of Indian products and what are their consequences?
Q.6 Explain the Stages Model of structure. Is it necessary for and organization to pass through all successive stages of growth?
Q.7 What is the importance of structure for the evaluation of strategy? What are the advantages of profit centers?
Q.8 Explain the mechanics of mergers and acquisitions. What motivates the top management to go in for M&A?
Q.9 What do you understand form the term strategic alliances? Explain the different types of strategic alliances that companies follow? Give examples of Indian companies for each type of strategic alliances?
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Course Code: MS-92
Course Title: Management of Public Ent.
Q.1 “India’s approach to economic development was compromise between acentrally planned economy and a market economy” discuss.
Q.2 What do you mean by ‘public enterprise ‘and also discuss the scope andobjectives in the service sector taking into account the financial services.
Q.3 Define Accountability and governance and How is the CPU constituted? Howdoes it working affects PES.
Q.4 Explain the role of performance and evaluation in public enterprises? Do youthink that performance evaluation is easy for private enterprises than publicenterprises.
Q.5 Try to develop marketing concept for the following
(a) Road Transport Corporations.
(b) State electricity board
(c) Municipal corporation.
Q.6 What is the government’s Policy regarding wage revision in public enterprisesalso Differentiate between PERT and CPM.
Q.7 What are the different methods of disinvestment followed by most countries inthe world ? and also discussed the benefits of privatization
Q.8 Industrial sickness is threat to a developing labor surplus economy Justify.
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Course Code: MS-96
Course Title: Total Quality Management
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Q.1 (a) What do you understand by Quality, explain different quality characteristics?
(b) Explain the term quality of design and quality of conformance and state the factors which
control then.
Q.2 (a) What do you understand by cost of quality, explain different categories of cost of quality.
(b) Explain total quality and customer value strategy.
Q.3 (a) What do you understand by Total Quality Management (TQM) philosophy, explainDeming’s TQM approach.
(b) What are the different elements of TQM and state guidelines for successful implementationof TQM
Q.4 (a) What do you understand by quality assurance? Explain contents of quality assurancemanual.
(b) Explain various techniques of implementation of Kaizen.
Q.5 (a) Define quality circle and state characteristics, functions and techniques of quality circle
(b) Describe various problem solving techniques in quality circle.
Q.6 (a) Define briefly ISO-9000 series standards and explain different clauses in ISO-900O Model.
(b) Explain National Accreditation Board of Hospitals (NABH) standard for healthcare and Hospitals.
Q.7 (a) Define the term quality control and explain its functions and objectives Define variouscontrol charts and state various objective and patterns of control charts.
(b) Explain systematic sequential procedure to integrate quality with strategic planning process.
Q.8 (a) What are the humanistic elements of TQM.
(b) What is ISO 9000, explain twenty clauses of ISO 9000 quality system requirement.
Q.9 Write short note on
(i) quality system for environment management
(ii) quality system for health and safety
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Course Code: MS-97
Course Title: International Business.
Q1. What types of organization structure may usually be evolved duringdifferent stages of internationalization?
Q2. How do MNEs integrate their subsidiaries? What are different typesof subsidiary rules?
Q3. What factors would determine the degree of control exercised byparent MNE on the subsidiary operations?
Q4. What are the benefits & problems in recruiting managers from thehome country, the host country and the third country?
Q5. What role do negotiating skills play in the process of negotiations?Suggest some ways & means by which a company could enhance thenegotiating skills of its managers.
Q6. What are the objectives of trade groupings? Discuss the successachieved by individual groupings in realizing the objectives.
Q7. Discuss the implications of Uruguay round proposals forinternational business.
Q8. Discuss the stages in cross-cultural negotiation process, citingrelevant research findings in relation to each stage