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VALLIAMMAI ENGINEERING COLLEGE, CHENNAI

DEPARTMENT OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES
BA 7036 Strategic Human Resource Management and Development

UNIT 1

PART A
1) Define Strategic Human Resource Management?
2) Define HRD?
3) What are the barriers to strategic HRM?
4) Distinguish between HRD and HRM?
5) Define Vision, Mission & Core Values?
6) What are the typical HRD functions?
7) What are objectives & business goals?
8) What is the role of HRD professionals within the organization?
9) What are the current challenges for HRD?
10) Define HRM & its Primary Functions, Secondary Functions?
11) What are the frame work HRM competencies?
12) What are HRD practices?
13) What are the current challenges for HRM?
14) Why strategic assessment is needed?
15) What is Competency?
16) What is strategic capability?
17) What is benchmarking?
18) What is HRD audit?
19) What are recent trends in HRD?
20) What are Business Process Objectives?

PART B
1. Explain the framework of Strategic HR Management Process
2. Elaborate on the various challenges faced by an organization with suitable examples.
3. Explain the HRD process model with an example.
4. Elaborate on the various roles of HRD professionals.
5. Explain the links to HR, strategy and business goals with examples.
6. Give a brief account of the evolution of HRM as a functional area in any organization.
7. In what ways does the HRD function relate to the organizations strategy? Give
contextual examples.
8. What does Human Resource Planning mean? Discuss in detail.
9. Discuss the concept of Benchmarking in detail.
10. Explain why organizations should opt for HRD audit.

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UNIT 2
PART A

1. What is E- Selection and E-Recruitment?

2. What is E- training and development?
3. What is E-Performance management?
4. Define virtual learning?
5. How do you understand E-Employee Profile?
6. Write Short Note on employee privacy?
7. What is employee survey?
8. Define E-Hiring?
9. What is E-HRM?
10. What is meant by internal sourcing?
11. Define virtual organization.
12. What is the Abbreviation of HRIS? Define it.
13. State some of the E- recruiters in India.
14. What is mentoring?
15. Define E-Learning?
16. What is meant by employee online survey administration?
17. What is meant by employee online survey analysis?
18. What is compensation design?
19. How do you design a HR Portal?
20. What is Hot vacancy?

PART B
1. Explain the development and implementation of an HRIS?
2. Briefly elaborate on e-HRM.
3. Discuss the various issues in employee privacy.
4. Explain the concept of virtual learning and orientation.
5. Explain the benefits and limitations of online employee surveys.
6. Write short notes on: (a) e-Selection and recruitment (b) e-Training and development (c)
e-Performance management.
7. What is the importance of training and why is training evaluated? How is training
evaluated?
8. State the principles of e-selection and recruitment. What are the advantages?
9. How is e-training and development designed for supervisors of a manufacturing
company? Give illustrations.
10. Elaborate EDS & Explain the factor involving in EDS.

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UNIT 3

PART A

1. Define a. International Corporation

2. How international companies affect the world economy?
3. Distinguish between domestic HRM and international HRM
4. Distinguish between expatriation and repatriation
5. What is cultural dynamics?
6. What is cross border mergers and acquisitions?
7. How to build a multi-cultural organization?
8. What is PCN, HCN, TCN?
9. What does cultural assessment mean?
10. What do you mean by international compensation?
11. What do you mean by acquisition or take over?
12. Define Merger? What is horizontal merger, Concentric Merger?
13. What do you mean joint venture?
14. Define BPO & HRO?
15. What are HR responsibilities?
16. What do you mean by PEO?
17. Explain spillover risks?
18. What do you mean by ethnocentric?
19. What do you mean by polycentric?
20. What is multi-domestic strategy & what do you mean by transnational strategy?

PART B

1. Explain in detail the concept of Cultural Dynamics.

2. Elaborate on the cultural environment of International business.
3. Explain the selection criteria of Expatriates.
4. Discuss the strategic issues in International assignments.
5. What are the factors affecting International human resource management? Discuss each
one of them.
6. Discuss the current challenges in outsourcing, M&A and Expatriation in detail.
7. What are the current challenges in outsourcing? Why is India a favorite destination for
outsourcing? Explain.
8. What does Outsourcing mean? What are the implications and advantages of outsourcing
under globalization conditions?
9. Discuss the relevance and effectiveness of various leadership models in present context.
10. Discuss briefly about the International compensation

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UNIT 4

PART A

1. What is Career?
2. What is Career Planning?
3. Discuss the different steps in Career Planning.
4. What is Career Development?
5. What is Career Management?
6. What is Career Anchor?
7. What is Career motivation?
8. What is Career enrichment?
9. What do you mean by Competency?
10. What is Competency Mapping?
11. What do you mean by competency-based compensation?
12. Give few Successful Career Tips?
13. What is meant by Career Plateau?
14. What is Knowledge Management?
15. What are the Career Stages?
16. What is Synthesizing?
17. What is AQ?
18. What is Sabbaticals?
19. . What is Exploration?
20. What is Adaptive Learning?

PART B
1. Describe the various stages in career development with examples.
2. Discuss the various steps in career planning and process.
3. Explain any four models of career development with suitable examples.
4. Describe the Career Motivation process.
5. Explain in detail Concepts, Roles & stages of Career.
6. How do the employees in an organization manage their career plateaus?
7. Explain the concept of competency and how competency is related to compensation and
promotion.
8. Design an effective career development system with an example.
9. Explain a competency-mapping model with an example.
10. Elaborate on equity and competency based compensation.

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UNIT 5
PART A
1. What is coaching?
2. What is the role of HR in coaching?
3. Identify skills for effective coaching.
4. What is the need for counselling?
5. What is the role of HR in counselling?
6. What are the components of a counseling program?
7. What is stress?
8. What is work/job stress?
9. State the reasons for Work stress?
10. What are the symptoms/consequences of stress?
11. What is Burn out?
12. What is Emotional Intelligence?
13. What is Coaching Effectiveness?
14. What is Mentoring?
15. What are the stages in Counselling process?
16. What is Counselling Skills?
17. What is Work Ethics?
18. What is Religion theory?
19. What is Philanthrophic theory?
20. What is Paternalistic Theory?

PART B
1. Distinguish between Employee Coaching and Employee Counseling. Explain with
suitable examples.
2. What are the skills required for effective coaching and how do you bring about coaching
effectiveness?
3. Explain the coaching process with appropriate examples.
4. What is the role of HR in counseling? Discuss its effectiveness. (OR) Provide
organizational illustrations.
5. Elaborate on Employee Health and welfare programs.
6. Describe the characteristics of Employee health and welfare programs. Give explanatory
illustrations.
7. What is managements role in safety and health? Describe the various issues involved.
8. Explain in detail the sources and consequences of Stress.
9. Explain in detail the Eastern and Western practices of Stress management techniques.
10. How to promote emotional intelligence in the work place?

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