June, 2OO8

MS-92 : MANAGEMENT OF PUBLICENTERPRISES(Comprehensive-40marks)

SECTION A

1. 'Econornic developrnent was sought to be achieved in different countries at different

stages of development through divergent economic models.' In view of this statement,
discuss any three models of economic growth .
2. (a) Explain the Principles of government – Public enterprise interface.
(b) Briefiy discuss some important organs of the government machinery, which
interacts with public enterprises.
3. An efficient transport system is a prerequisite for sustained economic development.'
Keeping this statement in mind, discuss the performance of transport sector.
4. Explain in brief different strategic issues arising out of disinvestment in Public Sector
Enterprises.
5. Discuss briefly the various marketing concepts as applicable in public enterprises.
Illustrate your answer with suitable

SECTION B

6. what do you understand by corporate Governance ? what is the relevance of

corporate Governance to Public Enterprisesi n India in today's context ? 20
7. "public Sector reforms were introduced in India in 1991 as part of the process of
economic liberalization." What were these reforms ? Discuss their impact on public
enterprises.

December, 2OO7
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SECTION A

1. "The public sector encompasses all economic activities of a Government." In view of

this statement, discuss the concept and form of public sector enterprise.
2- What are the different approaches to social responsibility? Comment on some
common characteristics of socially responsible firms, giving examples
3. Discuss the relationship of objectives with that of performance evaluation in public
enterprises. What are the different criteria for performance evaluation of PEs ?
4. Comment on the composition of the Board of Public Enterprises discussing the
qualification of board members and size of boards. :
5. Write short notes on :
(a) Voluntary Retirement Scheme
(b) Retention agreements
(c) Retraining
(d) Employee Shareholding Schemes

SECTION B

6. Critically examine the different dimensions of privatization.

7. Discuss the various techniques of Project Management and apply these techniques
using hypothetical examples.
June,2OO7

SECTION A
l - 'Economic development was sought to be achieved in different countries at different
stages of development through divergent economic models.' In view of this statement,
discuss the different economic models.
2 . Critically assess the role of some important organs government machinery which
interact with Public Enterprises.
3. Discuss the need of State Level Public Enterprises (SLPEs) in relation to fulfilling the
socio-economic development of a region. What are the considerations which are
relevant in formulating the policies and objectives of SLPEs ?
4. Discuss the applicability of marketing concepts in Public Enterprises. Discuss the
entire philosophy of Marketing Concept when applied in Public Enterprises.
5. The policy objectives and motives for privatisation have varied with countries and with
time. Briefly discuss the policy objectives of privatisation in countries which have gone
for Privatisation . of some important organs of the which interact with Public

SECTION B

6. (a) . Discuss the different forms of disinvestment

(b) What ur? the different strategic issues involved disinvestment process? Discuss
them in brief.

December, 2OO7 MS-91 : ADVANCED STRATEGICMANAGEMENT

SECTION A
1. Explain the concept and nature of corporate strategy' What are the various levels at
which corporate strategy may exist ? lllustrate.
2. What are the initiatives undertaken by the Government to boost corporate
Governance (cG) ? Highlight the recent developments in other countries with regard to
CG'.
3. Discuss the role of Information Technorogv (iT) in strategy implementation. Explain
how IT can assist in competitive advantage of a firm. Give examples
4. What do you understand by corporate philanthropy ? Discuss few cases showing the
relationship between strategy, philanthropy and economic motivations.
5. Write short notes on any four :
1. Dynamic Environment
2. Importance of Corporate policy
3. Pricing Strategies under Monoporistic competitive
4. Market
5. Synectics
6. E- Business
June,2OO8

SECTION A

l. How is corporate policy classified ? Discuss in detail.

2. Why has it become necessary for business houses to have good corporate
governance ? Discuss citing examples.
3. What are the characteristics of a dynamic market ? Briefly discuss the strategic
choices-in a dynamic environment.
4. What are the pre-conditions for developing an effective R&D strategy ? Describe the
steps involved in developing R&D strategy.
5. Write short notes on any four of the following :
(a) Approaches to Corporate Management
(b) Narayana Murthy Committee
(c) Knowledge Management
(d) Intrapreneurship
(e) Partial Social Audit

June, 2OO7
SECTION A
1. (a) Discuss the nature and scope of Corporate Management.
(b) Discuss the role of strategists in Corporate Management.

2. Compare and contrast Cadbury Committee Report with CII Report on Corporate
Governance in the present context.

3. (a) How is Stable Environment different from Dynamic Environment ?

(b) Explian briefly suitable strategies for industries which they follow at the time of
operating
In a stable environment

4. How does Knowledge Management (KM) enhance competitiveness of a firm ?

Explain. Discuss the trends and challenges in KM
5. Explain the concept and scope of business ethics and discuss it in the context of an
organisation's external environment.
December, 2OO7
RESEARCHM ETHODOLOGY FOR MANAGEMENT DECISIONS MS-95

SECTION A

1. Explain the role of research in managerial planning and decisions.W hat are the
various classifications of research on the basis of its fundamental obiectives?
2. What is primary and secondary data ? Enumerate the different methods of collection
of primary data
3. Describe how the Thurstone's scale is the advantages and disadvantages of
Thurstone's scale.
4. The following table shows the marks in Research methods (X) and Quantitative
techniques (Y) of 8 persons.
X 52 63 45 36 72 65 47 25
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Y 62 63 51 25 79 43 60 33
Obtain the regression Quantitative techniques Research methods.
5. What are the problems that are faced in writing a research report ? What are the
characteristics of a good research report ?
6. Write short notes on any three of the following :
(a) Factorial design
(b) Pre-testing a questionnaire
(c) Pie chart
(d) Static vs. dynamic models
(e) Types of Bibliographies

SECTION B

7 - Checking on Neem trees that were planted many years ago along a country road, a
forestry official obtained the following arrangement of healthy H and diseased D trees :H
H H H D D D H H H H H H H D D H H D D D D Test at the 0'05 level of significance
whether this arrangement may be regarded as random. (Given the tabulated value of
test statisticis 1.96)

June 2008
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SECTION A
1. Explain the meaning of research in the context of making intelligent decisions.
Elaborate the five distinguishing features of any good research.

2- What do you understand by the terms "attributes", "beliefs" and "attitudes" ? Can
attitudes be measured ?- Explain the Semantic-Dfferential Scale with tbe help of an
example.
3- What are "models" ? Explain the need for model building .in managerial research.
Explain different forms through which models can be presented.
4. Hewitt Associates conducted a national survey to determine the extent to which
employers are promoting health and fitness among their employees. One of the
questions asked was, does you company offer on-site exercise classes ? Suppose it is
answered" yes" by 40o/oo f the respondents. How large a sample would Hewitt
Associates have to take in estimating the population proportion to ensure 98o/o
confidence in the results and to be within 0.03 of the true
population proportion ?
5. What are the various components of presentation skills ?Discuss them by elaborating
the major elements that are relevant to a presentation.
(6. Write short notes on any three of the following :
(a) The latin Square Design
(b) Cluster Sarnpling
(c)' Discriminant Analysis
(d) Footnotes
(e) Decision Oriented Reports

SECTION B
7. [s there a difference between health services workers and educational service
workers in the amount of compensation employers pay them per hour ? Suppose a
random sample of seven health service workers is taken along with a random sample of
eight educational service workers from different parts of the country. Each of their
employers is interviewed and figures are obtained on the amount paid per hour for
compensation per hour. Use a Mann-Whitney U test to determine whether these two
populations are different in employee compensation.
Educational Health
Service Worker Service Worker
26.19 20.10
23.88 19.90
25-50 22.36
21.64 19.75
24.95 2.90
25.30 22.96
24,12 20.75
23.45

June, 2OO7

SECTION A
l. Explain the meaning of research in the context of making intelligent decisions. Also,
discuss the steps involved in the process of research
2. What is primary data and why is it called so ? Describe different methods of collecting
primary data with their merits and demerits.
3- Discuss the need of model building in managerial research. Also, describe different
forms through which models can be presented.
4- Discuss various parts of a research report. Also, discuss how one goes about proof-
reading the research report.
5- show the following data by means of a pie diagram :
Area wise Business of computer companies
from India in the yeqr Z00S - 2006
West Europe 33.33o/o
Asia 25o/o
America 16.670/o
East Europe 16.670/o
Africa and others 8.33%
6- write short notes on any three of the following :
(a) Completely Randomised Design
(b) Stratified Random Sampling
(c) Thurstone's Equal- appearing Intervals cale
(d) Discriminant Analysis
(e) Decision-oriented reports
SECTION B
7 - The weight (gms) of 31 mangoes picked from a consignment are as follows
106, 107, 76, 82, 106, 107, 115, 93, 187, 95, 123,
125, 111, 92, 86, 170, I27 , 68, 130 , I29 139, 119,
115, I28, 100, 186, 84, 99, 113, 204, 111
Test whether the given sample is random using the Runs test for randomness.

June, 2OO8
MS-7 : INFORMATION SYSTEMS FOR MANAGERS( Coprehensive)

I
SECTION A

1. Information technology has been used in every business and for every function of a
business. Contextualize a business perspective of IT by discussing some applications of
IT.
2. Highlight the relationship between data & information and information & knowledge.
Discuss some characteristics that must be possessed by "information".
3. Discuss in detail the use of computers in marketing management. Also describe
briefly major marketing information sub-systems.
4. What are outsourcing information systems ? Discuss the advantages and
disadvantage of outsourcing .How can IT help in managing outsourcing?
5. What are expert systems ? Mention the working principles of expert systems. Also
discuss how knowledge can be represented in expert systems.

SECTION B
6. Write short notes on any two of the following :
Third Generation Language (3GL)
Business software solutions from Oracle
Soft switched-based applications
December, 2OO7

SECTION A
1. (a) Define Information Technology (lT) and discuss the advancements in the field of
IT.
(b) What is Open Systems Interconnection Reference model (OSI model) ? Describe
the seven layers of
OSI model.

2. a) What are various methods of assessing the value of Information ? Explain any two
methods briefly.
B) Discuss the importance of "right to privacy" and" freedom of information'' in Indian
society.

3. (a) What is the change in the focus of Operation Management ? Is this change in the
focus due to the
increase of competitiveness in business ? Elaborate the role of IT in this regard.
. (b) Identify the transaction modules in marketing area.Discuss the four sub-systems
concerned with
Marketing Information System
4. (a) Enumerate the advantages and disadvantages outsourcing information systems.
(b) What is HTML ? Discuss the main features of HTML.
5. (a) Explain how data mining is different from online analytical processing (OLAP).
(b) What are the characteristics of decision support systems ? What are its
components ?

SECTION B
6. Write short notes on any two of the following :
o Non-volatile storage
o Knowledge Managemenr
o Genetic algorithms
June,2OO7

SECTION A
1. (a) Define Information Technology. Describe various types of information systems.
Give example of each type of information system in order to differentiate between
them.
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 (b) What is an Operating System ? Describe various activities performed by a typical
operating system.
2. (a) Explain the systems concept in management information and control. Describe the
management
Functions at various levels in the context of relationships between management n
information needs.
' (b) Discuss the ethical issues involved in the information society. Why is there a need
to protect hardware and software from unauth orized access ? Discuss some of these
mechanisms.
3. (a) Why is it logical to organize IT applications by functional areas ? Discuss the role
of computers in one such area.
(b) Briefly discuss the business software solutions provided by any one of the
following :
• SAP
• Oracle

4. (a) Enumerate the advantages and disadvantages of outsourcing Information

System. When should outsourcing be used by the organizations ?
(b) With so many readymade and customized softwares available, the need for a
manager is to learn to use them effectively, rather than learn to program them. " Do you
agree ?
5. (a)What are data models ? How would you classify the data models ? Differentiate
between various data models, with suitable examples.
(b) Explain Artificial Intelligence. Discuss few applications of artificial intelligence.

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SECTION B
6. Write short notes on any two of the following :
• Online Analytical Process (OLAP)
• Groupware
• Smart Cards
June, 2OO8
MS.2 : MANAGEMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES(case law)

SECTION A
l. Explain the scope and components of HRM. Cite suitable illustrations.
2.Define and describe Human Resource planning, the associated problems and the
guidelines for making it more effective. .
3' Define and describe the competency mapping and its various methods.
4' Explain the concept of Human Resource Development (HRD). Discuss the principles
of designing HRD system for an organization.
5- write short notes on any three of the following :
• HR accounting
• Pay Equity
• Stock options
• Induction programmes
• Mentoring
June, 2OO7
1. Explain the scope and importance of HRM in the present day context. Differentiate
between traditional personnel function and HRD. 20
2. What is Human Resource Planning (HRP) ? Discuss the process of HRP and the
problems associated with it. 20

3. Discuss the concept of competency mapping. Briefly explain the methods of

competency mapping . 20
4. What is HRD System? Enlist the principles in designing an HRD system. 20
5. Write short notes on any three of the following : 20
• Fringe benefits
• Trade Union recognition
• Grievance handling
• Outsourcing
• Importance of teams
,

December, 2OO7

1. Explain different objectives and supporting functions of H"RM, citing suitable

examples.
2.. Define recruitment and differentiate it from. selection. Discuss different methods of
recruitment.
3.. Discuss the concept of potential assessment and its uses-.Explain competency
mapping.
4. What are the basic principles of compensation administration ? Analyse the wage
structure in India, citing
suitable examples.
5. Write short notes. on any three of the following
• Grievance handling procedure
• Roles and obiectives of trade unions
• Mentoring
• Succession planning
• Industrial democracy

June,2OO8
MS-4 : AGGOUNTING AN D FINANCE FOR MANAGERS
l. (a) What do you understand by the concept of conservatism ? Why is it also called the concept
of prudence ? Why is it not applied as strongly today as it used to be in the Past ?
(b) What is a Balance Sheet ? How does a Funds Flow Statement differ from a Balance Sheet ?
Enumerate the items which are usually shown in a Balance Sheet and a Funds Flow Statement'
2. (a) Why does depreciation need to be provided on fixed assets and what are the usual
methods of providing depreciation.
(b) Discuss the role of the Board of Directors in dividend decision.
3. What do you understand by Discounted Cash Flow Techniques of Capital Budgeting ? Briefly
explain the Net Present Value Method and Internal Rate of Return Method.which of the two would
you rank better and why ?
4. Distinguish between :
• Financial Leverage and operating Leverage
• Cash Budget and CashFlow Statement
• 'First 'in First out put and last in first out put systems of Inventory Valuation
• Preference shares and Rights shares
5. A company manufactures a single product in tis factory utilising 60% of its capacity. The
details are given below :
Sales (6,000 units)
Direct materials
Direct labour
Direct expenses
Fixed overheads :
Factory
Administration
Selling and Distribution
product in its factory
selling price and cost
Rs.
5,40,000
96,000
r,20,000
19,000
2,00,000
2r,000
25,000
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L2.5o/o of factory overheads and 20e/o of selling and
distribution overheads are variable with production and
sales. Administrative overheads are wholly fixed.
Since the existing product could not achieve budgeted level
for two consecutive years, the Company decides to
introduce a new product with marginal investment but
largely using the existing plant and machinery.
The cost estimates of the
Cosf elemenfs
new product are as follows :
Rs. per unit
16.00
15.00
1.50
2.00
Direct materials
Direct labour
Direct expenses
Variable factory overheads
Variable selling and distribution 1'50
' overheads
It is expected that 2,000 units of the new product can be
sold at a price of Rs. 60 per unit. The fixed factory
overheads are expected to increase by t}o/o, while fixed
sellinga nd distributione xpensesw ill go up by Rs. 12,500
annually. Administrative overheads remain unchanged.
Howe ver, there will be an increase of working capital to
the extent of Rs. 75,000, which would take the total cost
of the project to Rs. 8'75 lakh.
MS-4 P . T . O .
The company considers that 20o/o pre-tax and interest
return on investment is the minimum acceptable to justify
any new investment.
You are required to
(a) Decide whether the new product be introduced.
(b) Make any further observation/rse commendations
about oroftaubilityo f the company on the basis of
the above data , af,ter making assumption that the
presenti nvestmenti s Rs. 8 lakh.
6- Explain fully the following statements :
(a) "Lower the Break-evenp oint, better it is.,,
(b) "Greater the variability of cash flows, higher should
be the minimumc ashb alanec .,,
(c) "Weighted average cost of capital would always be
higher, if the market valuew eightsa re used".
(d) "Capitalisation of reserves is different from capital
resgrves".
7 ' Why do you understand by the term 'pay-out ratio' ? What
factors are taken into consideration while determining
pay-out ratio ? should a company follow a fixed pay-out
ratio policy ? Discuss fully.
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8. From the ratios and other data given below for Bharat
Auto Accessories Ltd. indicate your interpretation of the
company's financial position, operating efficiency and
profitability.
Year 1 Year 2 Year 3
2650/o 278o/o 302o/o
ILSo/o 11006 99o/o
2.75 3.00 3'25
9.83 8.41 7'20
37 43 50
95o/o 100% LLOo/o
6.11 6.01 5'4L
5.10 4.05 2'50
11 ' O7o/o8.'' 5o/o 7' 0o/o
22o/o 23o/o 25o/o
L}o/o 160/o 23o/o
70o/o 7 Lo/o 73o/o
Rs. 3 Rs. 3 Rs. 3
L6'4o/o L8o/o 22'7o/o
7'A3o/o 5'O9o/o 2'0o/o
Current Ratio
Acid Test Ratio
Working Capital Turnover
(times)
Receivables Turnover
Average Collection Period
(Days)
Inventory to Working
Capital
Inventory Turnover (times)
Income per Equity Share
Net Income to Net Worth
Operating Expenses to Net
Sales
Sales increase during the
year
Cost of goods sold to Net
Sales
Dividend per share
Fixed Assets to Net Worth
Net Profit on Net Sales
MS-4 14,000