(Semester-3 rd ) Assignment Paper. Dear students, Please attempt all the questions and submit it to the D.E.office on. Managerial Economic

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1 MS--- New and Old Syllabus Managerial Economic 1. What is the managerial economics? Discuss the nature and scope of managerial economics. 2. (a) What is meant by demand? Explain the factors which influence demand. (b) What are the determinants of demand for consumers non-durable and durable goods and for capital goods? Why is the demand for durable goods (both producers and consumers ) less stable than the demand for non-durable goods? 3. Write notes on: a. Arc Elasticity of Demand. b. Types of Price Elasticity c. Total Outlay Method of Measuring Elasticity of Demand d. Practical Utility of the Concept of Elasticity of Demand. 4. (a) What is the significance of demand forecasting? Explains important methods of demand forecasting. (b) How do demand forecasting methods for new products vary from those for established products? 5. (a) State the relation between Fixed Cost, Variable Cost, Total Cost and Marginal Cost. Do fixed costs ever vary? Are variable cots ever fixed? (b) Explain briefly the following concept a. Opportunity Cost b. Money Cost c. Out Of Pocket Cost d. Marginal Cost e. Average Fixed Cost f. Average Variable Cost 6. With the help of diagrams explain the concept of Production Function and its importance in the theory of Production. 7. (a) Explain briefly the various theories of profit and discuss the statement profit as the objective of a firm is at best a very limited concept. (b) Explain and illustrate break even chart. Point out the usefulness of break even analysis. 8. (a) What is perfect competition? How is market price determined under conditions of perfect competition? (b) What is price discrimination? When is it possible? Is a discriminating monopoly socially preferable to s a simple monopoly? 9. Explain the static models of theory of sales revenue maximization give by Baumol. 10. What are the different methods of measuring national income? Which methods have been followed in India?

2 MS--- Old Syllabus Organizational Design Deve.& Change 1. What do you understand by Organization Design? What are the factors affecting Organization Design? 2. What is the Organization Structure? Define any four Organization Structure a) Line Organization Structure b) Line and Staff Organization Structure c) Product Organization Structure d) Vertical Organization Structure e) Horizontal Organization Structure f) Matrix Organization Structure 3. Define in Detail the Organization and analyzing work? 4. What is job design? What are the factors influencing effective job design and what are its different approaches? 5. Describe the Organization Analysis and its different perspective? 6. Write a Detail note on Organization Development and O.D. Intervention? 7. What is the process of change? What are the different phases of planned change? 8. What is the roll of change management? 9. What do you understand by institutional building?

3 MS--- Old Syllabus Purchase and Materials Mgt. 1. Describe Material Management. Materials flows and information flows are equally important in the material flow process. Discuss 2. Explain the various cost characterisation quoting examples as given belowa. Controllable v/s non-controllable costs. b. Direct v/s Indirect costs. c. Fixed v/s Variable costs. d. Actual v/s Opportunity costs. e. Relevant v/s Sunk costs. 3. Discuss Make or Buy decisions. Also describe the needs, procedure and main documents in International Purchase. 4. Discuss the activity of material planning and budgeting for production and manufacturing of end products. 5. Explain MRP Material Requirement Planning Algorithm with the example of flowchart. 6. Explain Inventory Management and Control Systems. What are the factors for determining safety stock? Describe EOQ Model. 7. Explain the following: a. Codification Systems and Standardisation b. Warehouse Location and Layout c. Receiving Procedures and Systems in Warehouse 8. Write Short Notes on: a. Material Management Organisational Structure b. Materials Information System c. Balance Scorecard Approach for Performance Appraisal

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5 MS--- New Syllabus International Business Management 1. Critically examine Ricardo s comparative cost theory of international trade. What is common between Smith s and Ricardo s trade theories? 2. A) What is productivity? How is it different from profitability? B) What is renegotiation? What might be the causes for renegotiation contracts? 3. A) Elaborate the concept of market power of MNCs. Do MNCs affect the operation of national firms? B) What do you understand by intra-firm trade? In what ways does it affect the host country? 4. What qualities are needed to make a multinational manager? What techniques may be adopted to assess the adaptability of manager in new culture and environments? 5. What are the objectives of trade groupings? Discuss the progress made in SAARC so far and the scope for future economic cooperation. 6. What are the various entry strategies available for Indian exporters? State the most suitable entry methods for the Education Institute in Singapore. 7. Describe the variables for the environmental scanning and corresponding modes of scanning. 8. Write a short note on the following; a. World Trade Organization b. Multilateral Negotiation c. Just in Time (JIT) d. Total Quality Management (TQM)

6 MS-Old Syllabus Business Mathematics & Statistics for Mnager 1. Statistics is a body of methods for making wise decisions in the face of uncertainty. Comment on the statement bringing out clearly how statistics helps in business decision making? 2. In an institute of 100 students, the numbers studying the various languages were found to be: German only 18; German but not Spanish 23; German and French 8; German 26; French 48; French and Spanish 8; no language 24. a. How many students took Spanish? b. How many students took German and Spanish but not? 3. Solve the following system of linear equation through Matrix Inverse Method: 4. A firm borrowed Rs from a bank. The bank charged Rs for the use of amount for six months. What is the rate at which the interest is charged? 5. From a lottery tickets marked 1, 2, 3,, 30 four tickets are drawn, find the chance that the tickets markets 1 and 2 are among them. 6. Find the missing frequencies from the following table where Median and total of frequencies are 51 and 100 respectively: Expansion (in Rs.) No. of families 14? 27? Calculate the coefficient of correlation for the following ages of husband and wife: Husband s Age Wife s Age The following table gives the distribution of population (in 000s) of Towns A and B in age groups. Compare the variations of their frequencies: Age Group Group Find the values of the 5-yearly moving average and plot them in a graph: 10. Year Values A. What do you mean by statistical decision analysis? How is it different from other methods used in decision making? B. What is meant by the regret criterion? Give suitable example.

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8 MS- Business Ethics Q.1 What is business ethics? Describe its nature. Is business ethics a necessity? Q.2 How would you recognize an ethical organization? What are its characteristics? Q.3 All major religions of the world provide a moral basis for their followers to carry on their business ethically. Do you agree? Either way, provide arguments to prove your point. Q.4 What are the sources of ethical problems in business? How can these be resolved? Q.5 Discuss a suitable framework for ethical decision making in business. What are the most important issues to be tackled in the process? Q.6 Discuss the various initiatives of global organizations to ensure ethical business worldwide. Q.7 How are business ethics, corporate governance and corporate social responsibility interconnected? What are the underlying principles that run through these ethical threesome? Q.8 Review the present corporate governance practices in India. Do you think that things are likely to improve on this front in future? Q.9 Discuss the problems that have led to poor investor protection in India. What are the investor grievances redressal mechanisms that have been put in place by SEBI and other authorities? How effective are these mechanisms? Q.10 To what extent have Indian companies zealously espoused CSR in their activities? Will it be correct to think that whatever has been done in this area is good. But yet here is a lot more to be done in a poor and developing country like India? Q.11 Consumer interests can scarcely be protected unless he of she carries on his or her duties and responsibilities. What are these? Explain.

9 MS- Business Communication Q1.What do you understood by Grapevine? What is its importance in an organization? Q3. What is meant by Mis-communication? How does mis-communication arise? Explain methods to remove barriers to communication. Q4. What is Sales Letter? Which points should be remembered before writing a Sales Letter? Q5. What is meant by Business Report? Explain its characteristics. Q6. Which points should be kept in mind while writing a Resume