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IGNOU MBA sem 2 July - December solved assignment

21/08/2020

SECOND SEMESTER
(July to December-2020)
MS-28Labour Laws

1. Explain the concept of social justice in relation to industrial jurisprudence. Brieflydescribe the genesis of labour legislation in India.

2. Describe the scope and applicability of Factories Act, 1948. Explain the provisionsrelating to Annual leave with Wages under the Act.

3. Explain the procedure for registration and cancellation of a Trade Union. What is thelegal status and rights of a registered Trade Union?

4. Discuss briefly the scope and coverage of the Mines Act, 1952. Discuss briefly anddescribe the provisions for enforcement of the Act.

5. Define and discuss the objectives of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947. Explain theprovisions regarding Lay-off, Retrenchment and closure under the Act.

21/08/2020

SECOND SEMESTER
(July to December-2020)
MS-26 Organisational Dynamics

1. Define and differentiate between Group and Team. Briefly describe the nature andpurpose of Team and the probable effects of Group processes on Team performance.
Explain with the help of your organizational experience or the one you are aware of.
Describe the organization you are referring to.

2. Define and discuss the concept and systems of Role in an organizational set-up.
Explain with example the mapping of Role Systems in respect of Social, Personal, and Organisational Roles. Explain with appropriate exhibits depicting your role andother roles in both the Role Systems in your organization. Describe organisatonalstructure of the organization you are referring to.

3. Define and differentiate between Delegation and Decentralisation. Briefly discuss theforces which influence Delegation in a formal organizational set-up. Explain withsuitable examples from your organizational experience or the experience you areaware of. Briefly describe the organization, you are referring to.

4. Define Diversity and briefly describe the sources / dimensions of Diversity and theinstitutions for promoting Diversity. Explain with the help of your organizationalexperience or the one you are aware of. Briefly describe the organisation and the context you are referring to.

21/08/2020

SECOND SEMESTER
(July to December-2020)
MS-25Managing Change in Organisations

1. Describe and discuss turnaround and work redesign as methods in order to bring changein the organisations. Cite Examples.

2. What are the reasons for change to occur in an organisation? Discuss and Describegiving examples.

3. Describe and discuss the sources of resistance to change in an organisation. Discusswith reference to an organisation and explain how the organisation overcameresistance.

4. Describe and discuss two types of interventions to bring change in an organisation andtheir merits and demerits.

5. Discuss the need for indigenous management in developing countries and thecomplexity of management of change. Give examples.

21/08/2020

SECOND SEMESTER
(July to December-2020)
MS-11Strategic Management

1. Explain with the help of examples as to how the top management takes strategicdecisions in the company and in what sense it does not take the strategic decisionsalone.

2. What is the difference between goals and objectives for an organization? Illustratewith the help of examples. Also explain why it is essential for the objectives of anorganization to be verifiable.

3. Identify two companies that have merged recently. Read the published informationon the two companies and based on your research identify the problems the twocompanies are currently facing in combining their respective organizationalcultures.

4. What is the relationship between level of operations of a business and its marketshare goals in terms of the macroenvironment? Discuss with the help of examples.

5. What is the role of strategic control in balancing the interaction between theinternal and the external environment of a business? Explain with the help of examples.

21/08/2020

SECOND SEMESTER
(July to December-2020)
MS-10 Organizational Design, Development and Change

1. Describe and discuss T-Group Training and Team Building as interventions toorganisation development, giving examples. Briefly discuss their merits and demerits.

2. Describe the importance of organization diagnosis. Discuss and describe organizational analysis perspectives and their relevance in the present day context.

3. Explain the evolutionary process of organizational design and describe Mintzberg’stypology as to how it provides linkage between organisational business strategy andorganisational design and its relevance in the present day organisations.

4. Briefly discuss the role of Change Agent and describe the competencies required for aChange Agent to be effective and successful.

5. Describe and discuss Quality of Work-life and its importance, giving examples

21/08/2020

SECOND SEMESTER
(July to December-2020)
MS-09Managerial Economics

1. Discuss the three choice problems as a central issue of an economy.

2. Distinguish between the three important sources of data used in forecasting:-
(a) Expert Opinion
(b) Surveys
(c) Market experiments

3. Briefly analyze the behavior of cost functions in the short run.

4. Explain the classification of markets based on their characteristics.

5. What is Price Discrimination? Explain first, second and third degree pricediscrimination.

6. Write short notes on the following:-
(a) Managerial Economics and other disciplines
(b) Arc Price Elasticity
(c) Economies and Diseconomies of Scale