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1. “HR are functions are inter-related to each other” do you agree or disagree. Explain the reason for your answer.
2. Being an HR manager what suggestions you would give to the organization for making better image in the market.
3. What do you know job security and why job security is important in the organization?
4. Shabaz was continuously on leave few days ago, when he ask to explain the reason of leave he said that he was on leave because of illness but when he ask for a prove he fail to present the medical report. What do you think his application for leave should be approved or not? Justify your answer?
5. Do you agree that employees who pass the socialization are more beneficial and productive then who didn’t know it?
6. Discuss the role of tactical operational & Strategic managers with the help of hierarchical diagram?
7. How would you differentiate between extinction and punishment?
8. Have you ever observed; organizations try to get employees from the competing firms who have complete knowledge about the procedures and operations, with an intention to beat the competitor? Quote one real life example. In your opinion, is it ethically right to do so or not?
9. Mention any three reasons of failure of international assignments and also give its remedies
10. Do you agree “Rules and policies are to protect the rights of employees only? Discuss

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1.      Do you think that it is easier to tie human resources to the strategic management process in large or in small organizations? Why?

2.     Three popular interventions for enhancing worker satisfaction are job enrichment, job rotation, and role analysis. What are the critical differences between these interventions, and under what conditions might one be preferable to the others?

3.     Explain Collective Bargaining and Labor relation?

4.     How might the ADA’s reasonable accommodation requirement affect workers such as law enforcement officers and fire fighters?

5.      The reasonable woman standard recognizes that women have different ideas of what constitutes appropriate behavior than men have. What are the implications of this distinction? Do you think it is a good or bad idea to make this distinction?

6.     Why have the roles and activities of the HR function changed over the past 20 to 30

years?  What has been driving this change?  How effectively do you think HR has responded?

7.      Some argue that outsourcing an activity is bad because the activity is no longer a means of distinguishing the firm from competitors. (All competitors can buy the same service from the same provider, so it cannot be a source of competitive advantage.) Is this true? If so, why would a firm outsource any activity?

8.     Distinguish between concurrent and predictive validation designs, discussing why the latter is to be preferred over the former. Examine each of the nine selection methods discussed in this chapter, and determine which of these would have validity most and least affected by the type of validation design employed.


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1. What symptom(s) exist in this case to suggest that something has gone wrong?
2. What are the root causes that have led to these symptoms?
3. What actions should the organisation take to correct these problems?
4. Do you think that the Bangalore-based company had practised participative  management?
5. If your answer is yes, with what method of participation (you have read in this chapter) do you  
    relate the above case?
6. If you were the union leader, would your behaviour have been different? If yes, what would it  
    be?
7. If you were in the management, would your attitude have been different? If yes, what would I be?
1. In the case of the Indane Biscuits, bring out the importance of ‘context’ and ‘credibility’ in
    communication.
2. List the direct and indirect causes for the escalation of tension at Indane Biscuits
3. If you were the Personnel Manager what would you do
1.  Which theory of motivation do you use to motivate the bus crew? Why?

2.      If you were the conductor what would you do?

3.  If you were the lady with the pet dog, what would you do?

4.   Role play(a) the conversation between the conductor and the lady with sealskin, (b) between
     policeman and the fellow passengers, and (c) between the conductor and the driver.
1. Does the company have an orientation programme? If yes, how effective is it?
2. If you were Naik what would have you done?


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1. Employee referral is the best approach to recruitment .What is your view?
2. Why has "fun at work" been profitable at Hitech?
1.    Explain why the revised performance appraisal system at Wellstar Hospital is more efficient?

2.   Do you think the performance appraisal system at Wellstar is aligned with its corporate profile and appropriate for all levels of employees?

3.   Considering accreditation requirements which focus on employee development and education, what are your suggestions for changes in the performance appraisal format?

4.   How far do you agree with the management that performance appraisal should be discontinued?

5.   If you were the HR manager, how would you tackle the situation?

6.   What modifications would you suggest in the performance appraisal system of the company

1.    From the discussion of job analysis information and job design, what actions would you recommend to HR department?

2.   Given the problems associated with the second shift, what differences would you look for between first shift and second shift workers?

3.   Since the Canadian workers had considerable experience with the equipment but the workers particularly in second shelf in Brazil had very little experience, what implications do you see for the job design?

1.    What would you do if you were Mr. Khaitan?

2.   How do you think the company got into a situation like this in the first place?


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1. Define and differentiate between Job Analysis, Job Description and Job Evaluation. Select an appropriate job evaluation method and create a plan for evaluating jobs of scientists in different grades.
2. Discuss the role of indoctrination in organizations. How can Performance Appraisal, and Training and Development be made an integral part of Human Resource Planning? Discuss.
3. Discuss the scope of Human Resource Audit. While auditing Reward systems for employees in a manufacturing organization, which factors should be taken into account and why? Explain with suitable examples.
4. Define and discuss the need for Human Resource Planning in an organization. Briefly discuss various approaches to HRP
5. Write short notes on any three of the following:
(a) Training methods
(b) Value determinants of HRP
(c) Human Resource accounting
(d) Labour Market Behavior
(e) Promotion and Reward Policies
SECTION B
1. Define and discuss the objectives of Human Resource Planning at organizational level. How does it help in determining and evaluating future organizational capabilities, needs and anticipated problems? Explain with suitable examples.
2. Define and describe Job Analysis. Briefly discuss several methods in which information about a job is collected and evaluated.
3. What is the purpose and process of recruitment function? Discuss various methods of sourcing manpower.
4. How is monetary value assigned to different dimensions of Human Resources costs, investments, and worth of the employees? Briefly explain Cost and Economic value approaches of measurement.
5. Write short notes on any three of the following :
(a) MBO
(b) Succession Planning
(c) Competency Mapping
(d) Job Evaluation
(e) H.R. Inventory
(a) Was the management justified in taking a decision to recruit a qualified and experienced person from outside as Deputy Chief Quality Controller?
(b) Was it in the interest of the organization to transfer Ratnam to the new auto-wheeler plant and promote Kapil Kumar? What could have prompted the management to take this decision?
(c) How do you view the role of O.A.s in supporting only the local and internal candidates and overlooking the interests of direct recruits even when they were family members of the Association, particularly at a time, when the industry needed professionally qualified persons to fill key technical posts?
(d) How would you react to the management's scheme for quarter allotment and why?
(i) Identify the issues related to manpower planning as evident in the case.
(ii) Discuss the strategies to tackle the percentage of internal promotion at the organizational level.
(iii)What type of additional training programmers’ should be imparted for direct entrants?
(iv) Suppose you are the head of the personnel division. What would be your suggestions in the meeting - Which has been called by the General Manager?


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Q.1. Elaborate on the system of HR Planning. Outline the steps to be undertaken by organizations to effectively engage in HR Planning.
Q.2. Discuss the various ways in which the commitment of errors in performance appraisal can be minimized.
Q.3. The nature and scope of the Human Resource Management Systems keeps on evolving with the changes in the external and internal environments of organizations. Elaborate on the same.
Q.4. what are some of the traditional and current sources of recruitment used by organizations? What are their pros and cons?
Q.5. How does HRM enable organizations to adapt to the dynamic changes in the environment? Illustrate with examples.
Q.6. As an HR executive, how would you go about devising HRIS for a mid – sized organization?
Q 7 . Discuss the various principles and purposes of promotion and types and purpose of transfers.


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CASE STUDY : 1
Q1) Why organizations adopt personnel policies explain the benefits?
Q2) What are the sources and content of personnel policies?
Q3) Explain few personnel policies?
Q4) Explain principles of personnel policies?
CASE STUDY : 2
Q1) Explain in detail the general purpose of recruitment?
Q2) Explain factors governing Recruitment?
Q3) Explain the Recruitment process with diagram?
Q4) Explain Recruitment planning?
CASE STUDY : 3
Q1) Does the company have an orientation programme?
Q2) If yes how effective is it?
Q3) How is formal Orientation programme conducted?
Q4) If you were Navin what would have you done?
CASE STUDY : 4
Q1) Why should Power and focus on shedding jobs to save on cost?
Q2) Are there no alternative strategies?
Q3) Will the proposed shedding of jobs and scale of six units help airbus survive the intense competition from Boeing?
Q4) Comment on the whole issue?



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1. Does John Vaz have a communication problem? Explain.
2. What suggestions, if any, would you make to John to help him improve his managerial effectiveness?
3. Ineffective communication is the fault of the sender. Do You agree or disagree? Discuss.
4. What can you do to improve the likelihood that you r communication will be received and understood as you intend.
1. If you were the programmer, would you want to work at Microsoft? Why or Why not?
2. How many activities in this case can you tie into specific motivation theories? List the
activities; list the motivation theories, and how they apply.
3. As Microsoft continues to get larger and its growth rate flattens do you think Management will have to modify any of its motivation practices? Elaborate.
4. Can money act as a motivator? Explain.
1. What should Atlantic Mutual Management do, if anything, to cope with the aftereffects of 9/11?
2. How long would You expect employees to be adversely affected by 9/11 if a company
provides no formal assistance for dealing with anger and stress?
3. What, if anything, should Management do about employees who appear to be suffering from such kind or trauma and stress, but will neither admit it nor accept help from their employee?
4. Outline the role of HR specialist in providing a safe and healthy environment for employees.
1. Do you think the company has any orientation programme? If Yes, discuss its effectiveness.
2. If employees were properly selected, there should be no need for an orientation programme”. Comment on the statement.
3. If You were Patil, how would you react to the above situation?
4. Discuss the purpose of orientation. What are various requisites of an effective programme?


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Q1) Why organizations adopt personnel policies explain the benefits?
Q2) What are the sources and content of personnel policies?
Q3) Explain few personnel policies?
Q4) Explain principles of personnel policies?
Q1) Explain in detail the general purpose of recruitment?
Q2) Explain factors governing Recruitment?
Q3) Explain the Recruitment process with diagram?
Q4) Explain Recruitment planning?
Q1) Does the company have an orientation programme?
Q2) If yes how effective is it?
Q3) How is formal Orientation programme conducted?
Q4) If you were Navin what would have you done?
Q1) Why should Power and focus on shedding jobs to save on cost?
Q2) Are there no alternative strategies?
Q3) Will the proposed shedding of jobs and scale of six units help airbus survive the intense competition from Boeing?
Q4) Comment on the whole issue?


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1 . How did the “Odd Ducks” programme enrich the jobs at Standard Decoy
2.  What motivated workers to participate in marking the Odd Ducks?
1.  Each person in the class should individually determine the Rupee amount and
     percentage increase in salary for each of the six supervisors, Individual decisions
     should be justified by a rationale or decision rule.
2.  After each individual has reached a decision, the group will convene and make the
      same decision as noted in (1) above.
3.   After each group has reached a decision, a spokesperson for each group will present
      the following information to the full class:
a)         The group’s decision concerning merit pay increase for each supervisor (rupee    
            and percentage)
b)        The high, low and average individual decisions in the group.
c)         A rationale for the group’s decision.
1)  What should he do?
2) What should he do?
1.         Which theory of  motivation do use to motivate the bus crew ? why ?
2.         If you were the conductor what would you do ?
3.         If you were the lady with the pet dog, what would you do ?
4.         Role play (a) conversation between the conductor and the lady with sealskin, (b) between policemen and the fellow passengers, and (c) between the conductor and the driver.
1.         What should Das do?


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1.         What mad the MD change his mind and go against Maniyam? What role might
            the VP-HR have played in the episode?
2.         If you were Maniyam, what would you do?
1.         What should Vijay do?
1.         How would you rate Dinesh’s behavior? What method of appraisal would you
            use? Why?
2.         Do you assess any training needs of employees? If yes, what inputs should be
            embodied in the training programme?
1.         In the case of the Indane Biscuits, bring out the importance of ‘context’ and
            ‘credibility’ in communication.
2.         List the direct and indirect causes for the escalation of tension at Indane Biscuits.
3.         If you were the Personnel Manager what would you do?
1.         Bring out the principles of promotion that were employed in promoting  Jaggu
2.         What would you do if you were (i) Suresh, (ii) Prahalad or (iii) Ravi?
3.         Bring out the ethical issues involved in Jaggu’s behavior.
1.         Do you agree with the conclusion drawn at the end of the case that scorecard
            system has galvanized ION  Tires? In other words, does scorecard system deserve
           all the credit?
2.         Will quality improvement initiatives clash with scorecard implementation? If yes,
            how to avoid the clashes?



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1.       Assumes that you are an HR executive for a company that manufactures and sells agricultural products (for example, fertilizers and grain feeds). The company’s workforce of 1,200 employees is 70 percent male and 30 percent female. Drawing from this case and the chapter content, develop an anti harassment policy and program. What are the major challenges you see in implementing the program?

2.      Many experts assert that reported cases of sexual harassment represent only a small percentage of the total number of incidents that actually occur in the workplace. If their assertion is true, why do so many cases go unreported? How would your HRM policy on harassment address this situation?

1.       As research indicates, people differ widely in their perceptions of sexual harassment. What is a harmless remark to one individual can be an annoying, even infuriating insult to another. In your view, what separates harmless conduct from harassing behavior? In the same vein, when does a sexist environment become a hostile, harassing one?

1.   Why is there a need for companies to offer work-family balance programs such as
      flextime, telecommuting, and job sharing?

2.   Of the three programs discussed above, which be the most important program for   
      you personally when deciding whether or not to join an employer? Why?

3.   Some organizations do not believe in offering any of these work-life balance   
      programs. What do you think their reasoning is? Explain.

1.   How can Creative Staffing Solutions create a learning environment for job  
      candidates before they accept a position or while they are between positions?

2.   What type of job candidates would use the temporary job support and services  
      provided by a firm like CSS?

  1. What difficulties might Creative Staffing Solutions have to deal with in using electronic job and resume posting?
  2. How has the emergence of the Internet changed the way that organizations plan and mange their human resource needs?
  3. What are the legal and ethical issues surrounding the use of the Internet by Individual employees for human resource activities? Are you concerned about violations of your own privacy because of these kinds of Web applicants?
  4. What specialized skills will the future HRIS professional need in order to effectively manage an organization’s virtual human resource function?
  1. What potential conflicts could arise between the Japanese managers/trainers and the French employees? Explain.
  2. What do you think of Mr. Watanabe’s approach to preparing himself for French culture? Do you think that his approach would be useful for American managers? Why or Why not?
  1. What kind of organizational culture did Mr. Watanabe want to establish at the factory in Valenciennes, France? Do you think he’ll try to manage the plant just like a Toyota factory in Tokyo? Why or Why not?
  2. What implications are there for the French employees of the plant if its good fortune takes a turn for the worse, and the factory consequently shuts its doors? Explain.

  1. Do you agree or disagree that ergonomics in the workplace should be covered by federal regulations? Explain your answers.
  2. Choose a job with which you are familiar and discuss the possibilities for repetitive stress injuries that could occur on this job and ways they could be prevented.
  3. Imagine that you are the human resources manager for a company that hires workers for the selected in question 2. What steps might you encourage company officials to take to identify and prevent MSDs?



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1.        Discuss the long-term relevance of motivational techniques used by Baheti in the light of prevailing environment in the organization.
2.       Had you been Baheti, what other techniques you would have used to improve the special services provided by the organization?
1.        Had you been in place of Alok Trivedi, what additional measures would you have taken?
2.       Critically analyze the Employee Relations Audit in the light of its contribution to self motivation of employees.
1.        If you were Malik, what strategies would you adopt to solve the problem?
2.       With high employee turnover in insurance industry, how can the company retain a person like Malik?
1.        What role do the non-financial incentives play in motivating the workers and minimizing the rate of absenteeism?
2.       What innovative solutions would you suggest to minimize the rate of absenteeism?
1.        Discuss merits/demerits of the role of strike, agitation and legal approach in union management relations.
2.       What role does mutual trust play in building union-management relations?


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1.         Would Enterprise’s approach human resource management work in other industries?
2.         Does Enterprise face any risks from its human resource strategy?
3.         Would you want to work for Enterprise? Why or why not?

1.         How relevant are the concepts of competencies to the jobs in a chicken-
            processing plant?
2.         How might you try to improve the jobs in a chicken-processing plant?
3.         Are dirty, dangerous, and unpleasant jobs an inevitable part of any economy?

1.                 But how should he see it through
2.                  Do you think that the Bangalore-based company had practiced participative management?
3.                  If your answer is yes, with what method of participation (you have read in this chapter) do you relate the above case?
4.                  If you were the union leader, would your behavior have been different? If yes, what would it be?

5.                  If the news is broken to Mahesh, how would he react?
6.                  If you were giving advice to the Chairman on this matter, what would you recommend?
7.                  What should he do?


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1.       What should Divan do?
2.      What should she do?
3.      How would you rate Dinesh’s behaviour?  What method of  appraisal  would you use?
4.      Do you assess any training needs of employees?  If yes, what inputs should be
      embodied in the training programme?
1.    Bring out the principles of promotion that were employed in          promoting     Jaggu. 
      2.   What would you do if you were (i) Suresh, (ii) Prahalad or (iii)       Ravi?
       3.  Bring out the ethical issues involved in Jaggu’s behavior.


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