1. a) Distinguish between a product and service with suitable examples and highlight the unique characteristic that services possess. b) What are the reasons that marketers should consider human needs and wants while planning for new products or services to be offered? Explain with a suitable example of your choice. 2. a) Discuss the major […]
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1. Why do you think is managing a high volume continuous operation easier than managing a high-variety intermittent operation? 2. “Work measurement is concerned with the determination of the amount of time required to perform a unit of work”. Explain the work measurement procedure. Also explain any two techniques of work measurement. 3. What do […]
[Continue reading]MS 3 IGNOU MBA Assignments July – Dec 2019
1. Explain how business environment influences business management, giving suitable examples. 2. What are the factors responsible for inflation? As a student of management how would you look at the problems of inflation? Collect data on inflation for the last five years and analyse the trends. 3. (a) Discuss the incentives given by the government […]
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Q1. Explain the evolution of Human resource management in your own words. What are the recent challenges that HR managers face in the present business scenario? Q2. Explain the importance of job analysis, job design, socialization and mobility in Human resource planning citing relevant examples Q3. How competency mapping, potential appraisal, and succession planning augment […]
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1. What is the significance of “Systems Concept” vis-à-vis various types of systems and processes involved in managing an organization? Explain with special reference to the role of management information system. Cite examples from the experience you have in an organization or you are aware of. Briefly describe the organization, you are referring to. 2. […]
[Continue reading]MS 54 IGNOU MBA Assignments Jan – June 2019
1. “The way organizations cannot exist without MIS, even information does not exist without organization.” Discuss. 2. Describe the major phases in MIS design. Can you compare these phases with Research and development projects? 3. Trace the evolution of data modeling concepts with examples which are different from the ones given in the preceding text. […]
[Continue reading]MS 53 IGNOU MBA Assignments Jan – June 2019
1. What do you understand by the term forecasting? Explain the steps in forecasting process. 2. What is job design? What are the various traditional engineering techniques and behavioural approaches of job design? Explain behavioural approaches in detail. 3. “Several rules have been developed to decide the next job to be selected from amongst the […]
[Continue reading]MS 52 IGNOU MBA Assignments Jan – June 2019
1. Describe the important phases of a project life cycle. What are the outlines of opportunity studies in project management? How do these impact project feasibility studies? 2. “Doubled Project Report (DPR) forms the foundation on which the entire superstructure of the project is built – if it is weak, project cannot weather the turbulent […]
[Continue reading]MS 43 IGNOU MBA Assignments Jan – June 2019
1. Explain the concept of Strategy. Discuss the Models which are used for formulating Business unit Strategies. 2. What is Transfer Pricing? Describe the ARM’s Length Principle and its Applications in detail. 3. In an Organization of your choice try to find out the type of short term and long term incentive plans that are […]
[Continue reading]MS 42 IGNOU MBA Assignments Jan – June 2019
1. What do you understand by cost of capital? Explain in detail how the cost of capital for various components of capital is computed? 2. What do you understand by project planning? Explain the various aspects on which Economic Appraisal of a project is done. 3. What is project risk? Explain the various techniques used […]
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