MBA–3rd Semester
MBA-(HR-6)
MANAGEMENT OF INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
UNIT- I
Q:1 Describe the changing profile of industrial relations in present changing scenario of
business environment.
Q:2 What is techno-economic change? What are its implications for industrial relations?
UNIT- II
Q:3 What are the role and responsibilities of a Trade Union in maintaining good
industrial relations in an organization?
Q:4 Describe the historical development of trade union movement. What its impact on
awareness on the working class.
UNIT- III
Q:5 What do you mean by Industrial conflict? Explain its role in maintaining industrial
peace in the organization.
Q:6 Write short on the following:
(i) Machinery for settlement of disputes.
(ii) Role of collective barging in IR.
UNIT- IV
Q:7 What is WPM? Explain co-ownership forms of WPM.
Q:8 Explain the role of empowerment on employee moral and motivation. How does it
help in increasing productivity?
JULY 2008
UNIT- I
Q:1 Define Industrial Relations. Discuss the scope and objectives of industrial relations.
Q:2 What are the emerging trends in industrial relations in the era of globalization?
Examine the important changes in industrial relations during the recent past.
UNIT- II
Q:3 What are the functions of trade unions? Should trade unions be banned?
Q:4 What short notes on:
(a) Problems of Indian Trade Union Movement.
(b) Trade Union response towards liberalization and globalization.
UNIT- III
Q:5 What is collective bargaining ? Explain the similarities and dissimilarities in respect
of collective bargaining in development and developing nations.
Q:6 Write short notes on:
(a) Pre-requisites of discipline in organizations.
(b) Grievances handling machinery in industry.
UNIT- IV
Q:7 Workers participations in management have not been much successful in India.
Why? Give suggestions to make if effective.
Q:8 What do you understand by TQM? Discuss the perspective scenario of TQM in
Industry.
MBA–3rd Semester
MBA-(HR-7)
Org. Change & Intervention Strategies
JAN 2008
UNIT- I
Q:1 What do you understand by organizational changes? Outline the process and models
of change.
Q:2 How change is managed in the organizations? Discuss about the support system for
managing smooth transition of change in the organizations.
UNIT- II
Q:3 Distinguish between structure based changes and process based changes in the
organizations.
Q:4 Write a note on overcoming individual and group level resistances to change.
UNIT- III
Q:5 What is O.D. Intervention? Give its various types. Differentiate between
interpersonal, role focused and team interventions.
Q:6 Explain organizational development with steps in organizational development
process.
UNIT- IV
Q:7 Elaborate on the challenges and issues for OD practitioners in India.
Q:8 Write notes on:
(i) Ethics of OD professionals. (ii) Future challenges of OD in organizations.
JULY 2008
Unit-I
Q-1 Understanding and Managing change is the biggest challenge today. What are the
initiatives taken by the organizations to manage change transition successfully?
Q-2 Define organization change; discuss the various factors at the individual and
organization level which leads to change.
Unit-II
Q-3 Discuss the various customers and competitor focused strategies undertaken by the
organizations
Q-4 Why do you think there is resistance to change at
(a) The organizational level
(b) The individual level and what can be done to overcome resistance to change.
Unit-III
Q.5 Discuss the various OD interventions that are practised at the interpersonal level in
the organizations.
Q-6 Differentiate between the roles focused interventions and team interventions in O.D
process.
Unit-IV
Q-7 O.D in India Discuss the past trends and future challenges for the Indian
organizations in the light of MNCs coming over.
Q-8 Do you think it is possible to evaluate and control the O.D process? Discuss.
MBA–3rd Semester
MBA-(HR-2)
Strategic HRM
JAN 2008
UNIT- I
Q:1 Define strategic role of HRM for survival of the organization in changing
environment.
Q:2 Prepare a budgetary plan to train human resources in an organization to cope up with
changing business trends.
UNIT- II
Q:3 What is strategy? Define the process of formulation of strategy.
Q:4 Distinguish between planning and strategic planning. Under what circumstances he
planning becomes strategic planning? Discuss.
UNIT- III
Q:5 Discuss the term SHRM. How does it become strategic? Define.
Q:6 Write short notes on the following:
(a) Objectives of employee separation.
(b) Significance of employee utilization.
UNIT- IV
Q:7 What is human resource evaluation ? Define strategic approach of human resource
evaluation.
Q:8 Write short note on the following:
(i) Balance scorecard
(ii) Features of Benchmarking
Or
(iii) Role of HR on organization’s performance.
JULY 2008
UNIT-I
Q:1 Explain emerging trends of human resources development in India.
Q:2 “Human Resources are the real assets of the organization.” Justify this statement
with examples.
UNIT-II
Q:3 Define the process of strategy formulation. Explain its essential steps to make it a
success.
Q:4 Enumerate the significance of human resources planning for the development of the
organizations.
UNIT-III
Q:5 Define and explain the employment practices of an organization. How do these the
performance of the organization?
Q:6 What do you mean by reward system? Explain its objectives.
UNIT-IV
Q:7 What is balance score-card? Explain its objectives and utilities.
Q:8 Write short notes on the following:
(i) Benchmarking of HR practices.
(ii) Human resource evaluation process.