PGDTRM 01 – Teaching Skills for Management Teachers

Assignment Code PGDTRM-01/TMA/2010

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1. Enumerate the different professional roles played by a Management Teacher.

List out the essential skills and competencies required for a Management
Teacher to perform the demanding & dynamic roles and functions they need
to perform in the context of global changes in Management education? What
are the additional competencies required for ensuring optimal outcomes in
technology enabled Management Teaching & learning environment?

2. Describe the need for and relevance of group learning in Management

Education. Suggest strategies for integrating group learning into
Management curriculum. What courses of action do you propose in curricular
planning & implementation for elicting student engagement in group
learning? List out possible constraints & ways in which such constraints may
be overcome.

3. Discuss the different aspects to be considered for designing Management

curriculum which is relevant & contemporary, given the evolving market-
based and technology enabled business environment. Elucidate the role of
Management Teachers in planning and development of dynamic Management
curriculum.

PGDTRM 02 – Institutional Management

Assignment Code PGDTRM-02/TMA/2010

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1. Examine the macro level issues related to management of business schools. Do you
consider it necessary to have a distinct approach to management of business schools?
Why? List out the challenges & constraints involved in building a business institute.
Suggest measures for developing and applying sound management concepts and
principles for building dynamic institutional framework for Management education.

2. Define the concepts of change & change management in the context of shifting
paradigm of Management education. Frame a standard model of change management.
Discuss the rationale. Specify the organizational and behavioral changes required for
implementing those changes. What possible impediments do you anticipate? What
actions do you propose to resolve them?

3. Underline the need for HRD in the context of management of business schools.
What formal mechanism do you suggest for ensuring continuous and sustainable
development of human resources? Evaluate the current faculty development initiatives
for ensuring enhanced quality of faculty of management institutions.

4. Describe the different dimensions of globalization and marketization of

management education. Discuss the challenges they throw up for management
institutions in our country? Underline the need for strategic vision and strategic
leadership in managing business schools.

PGDTRM 03 – Management Research I

Assignment Code PGDTRM-03/TMA/2010

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1. Discuss the role of academic research in business & management. Illustrate your
answer with an example of an academic research undertaken by any
university/management institution which has practical implications for industry.
What practical suggestions do you propose to academic researchers for
generating high quality research outcomes with strong practical value?

2. Distinguish between quantitative and qualitative research. List out different

types of research designs. How do you choose the most suitable research
design? Discuss the need for multidisciplinary approach to management
research.

3. a. Define research proposal. List out the need for quality research proposals.
Discuss the general precautions which need to be taken while preparing a
business research proposal.

b. Prepare a business research proposal on a business management topic of

your choice.

Guidelines for preparation of research proposal

The research proposal must be original and should have a length of 1000-
1500 words. The proposal should essentially contain the following sections:
 • Project Title

• Exective Summary

• Background of the study

• Relevat literature

• Statement of key Research Questions

• Research Objectives

• Research Hypothesis if any

• Staement of prposed benefits of the study

• Research Design

• Sampling Design

• Data Collection

• Analytical Tools & techniques

• Time schedule of the work

• Budget

• Requirements of special resources

• Researcher Credentials

• Project Administration

• Bibliography

• Appendices

PGDTRM 04 – Management Research II

Assignment Code PGDTRM-04/TMA/2010

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1. Distinguish between primary & secondary data. What are the different
sources of secondary data for research in marketing? Explain the significance
 of focus groups for collection of primary data. Discuss the contexts in which
focus groups are more appropriate.

2. a. Explain the concept of measurement in management research. What are

the general guidelines to be followed while designing measurement
instrument?

b. Enumerate the different techniques for measuring attitude?

3. a. Discuss the procedures followed in formulation and testing of

hypothesis. What do we mean when we say that we reject a hypothesis on
the basis of a sample? Distinguish between type I and type ii error. Illustrate
your answer with examples from any recent research.

b. Data on use of online libraries by research students in university of Q

shows that researchers in various discilpilnes spent aon an average 23.9
hours reading research publications. The standard deviation was 12.6 hours
per week. A random sample of 81 management researchers showed a sample
mean of hours of reading research publications as 27.2 hours per week. On
the basis of this sample is itvreasonable to claim that management
researchers are different from researchers in other disciplines with respect to
reading of research publications.? Substantiate your answer.

4. a. Describe the conrexts in which multivariate techniques are used for

analyzing statistical data? Give examples of 5 published research in reputed
journals weherin multivariate techniques were used. Critically examine the
methodology follwed in each. (Give details of journals)

b. The following data pertain to information collected by Cairscorp on

overhead expemses at different levels of outputs in their manufacturing
plants.

No of Units Produced (in thousands) Overhead Costs in Rs Lakhs

40 191

42 170

53 272

35 155

56 280

39 173

48 234

30 116
37 153

40 178

a. Develop a regression equqtion.

b. Predict overhead expnses for output levels 50 and 62.

c. Calculate standard error of the estimate.