HR01
Human Resource Management
Assignment I
Assignment Code: 2012 HR01 B1 Last Date of Submission: 15th October 2012
Maximum Marks: 100
Attempt all Questions. All questions carry equal marks.
Section A
1. Explain how the increased globalization of business is making the contribution of human resource departments more important. (20)
2. Define and differentiate between Job Analysis, Job Description. Discuss Job Evaluation Method and create a plan for evaluating jobs of Sales Persons at different levels in an organization. (20)
3. a. Discuss briefly the importance of Human Resource Information Systems.
b. What are the alternatives to recruitment?
(10+10=20)
4. As organizations become more global, human resource planning becomes more important and complex. Explain. (20)
Section B
Case Study
In one public sector undertaking, a line manager was appointed as the Chief of Personnel. Within a year after taking up the assignment, he had to sign a wage agreement with the workers union. Non-technical staff dominated the union at that time. The union charter of demands favoured the interests of the dominant work group. It asked for revision in gardener’s pay, but did not press for increase in the pay scales of workers in certain technical grades. The management conceded these demands because the union cooperated with them in keeping the burden of pay revision well within the guidelines of the Bureau of Public Enterprises.
Once the agreement was signed and communicated, there was a commotion among the technical staff. They walked out of the union, joined a separate technical staff union and marched around the company premises, holding placards which read – “Here grass Cutters get more than the gas cutters. In the engineering assembly unit, till the pay revision occurred welding was highly rated job, but not any longer. Now gardeners get more than welders”.
Questions:
1. What happens if grass cutters get more than gas cutters? (5)
2. Evaluate the approach of both management and union in the incident. (10)
3. List the lessons learned. Suggest a way out of the problem on hand. (5)
HR01
Human Resource Management
Assignment II
Assignment Code: 2012 HR01 B2 Last Date of Submission: 15th November 2012
Maximum Marks: 100
Attempt all Questions. All questions carry equal marks.
Section A
1. Discuss the meaning and significance of employee benefits. Highlight different types of benefits provided to employees in India? (20)
2. How would you formulate the aims and objectives of a training program? Explain with an example. How are training needs identified for different levels of employees in an organization? (20)
3. Performance Appraisal has been of significance since times immemorial. Compare the traditional and modern methods of performance appraisal. (20)
4. Write short notes on the following:
a. Career Planning
b. Collective Bargaining
c. Employee Empowerment
d. Future of Indian Industrial Relation Scenario (4x5=20)
Section B
Case Study
The information technology software services company decided to be proactive. The top management believed it was well placed to bag a project for which it had put in a bid and the HR department of the company was informed accordingly. The HR department set the ball rolling for recruitment. On recruitment process being over, they started investing for training the new recruits in order to have their skills required for the project to take off .When training of executives was nearing completion, a bad news came in that the contract was awarded to one of their competitors. The bad time for the company was not yet over. The company which bagged the contract for the project could pick up most of the trained professionals from the losing company. In the process the company got a severel jolt.
Questions:
1. On which counts did the losing company get the jolt and why?
2. What is the learning point from HR angle out of this incident and how could have such a situation been averted? (10+10=20)
Human Resource Management
Assignment I
Assignment Code: 2012 HR01 B1 Last Date of Submission: 15th October 2012
Maximum Marks: 100
Attempt all Questions. All questions carry equal marks.
Section A
1. Explain how the increased globalization of business is making the contribution of human resource departments more important. (20)
2. Define and differentiate between Job Analysis, Job Description. Discuss Job Evaluation Method and create a plan for evaluating jobs of Sales Persons at different levels in an organization. (20)
3. a. Discuss briefly the importance of Human Resource Information Systems.
b. What are the alternatives to recruitment?
(10+10=20)
4. As organizations become more global, human resource planning becomes more important and complex. Explain. (20)
Section B
Case Study
In one public sector undertaking, a line manager was appointed as the Chief of Personnel. Within a year after taking up the assignment, he had to sign a wage agreement with the workers union. Non-technical staff dominated the union at that time. The union charter of demands favoured the interests of the dominant work group. It asked for revision in gardener’s pay, but did not press for increase in the pay scales of workers in certain technical grades. The management conceded these demands because the union cooperated with them in keeping the burden of pay revision well within the guidelines of the Bureau of Public Enterprises.
Once the agreement was signed and communicated, there was a commotion among the technical staff. They walked out of the union, joined a separate technical staff union and marched around the company premises, holding placards which read – “Here grass Cutters get more than the gas cutters. In the engineering assembly unit, till the pay revision occurred welding was highly rated job, but not any longer. Now gardeners get more than welders”.
Questions:
1. What happens if grass cutters get more than gas cutters? (5)
2. Evaluate the approach of both management and union in the incident. (10)
3. List the lessons learned. Suggest a way out of the problem on hand. (5)
HR01
Human Resource Management
Assignment II
Assignment Code: 2012 HR01 B2 Last Date of Submission: 15th November 2012
Maximum Marks: 100
Attempt all Questions. All questions carry equal marks.
Section A
1. Discuss the meaning and significance of employee benefits. Highlight different types of benefits provided to employees in India? (20)
2. How would you formulate the aims and objectives of a training program? Explain with an example. How are training needs identified for different levels of employees in an organization? (20)
3. Performance Appraisal has been of significance since times immemorial. Compare the traditional and modern methods of performance appraisal. (20)
4. Write short notes on the following:
a. Career Planning
b. Collective Bargaining
c. Employee Empowerment
d. Future of Indian Industrial Relation Scenario (4x5=20)
Section B
Case Study
The information technology software services company decided to be proactive. The top management believed it was well placed to bag a project for which it had put in a bid and the HR department of the company was informed accordingly. The HR department set the ball rolling for recruitment. On recruitment process being over, they started investing for training the new recruits in order to have their skills required for the project to take off .When training of executives was nearing completion, a bad news came in that the contract was awarded to one of their competitors. The bad time for the company was not yet over. The company which bagged the contract for the project could pick up most of the trained professionals from the losing company. In the process the company got a severel jolt.
Questions:
1. On which counts did the losing company get the jolt and why?
2. What is the learning point from HR angle out of this incident and how could have such a situation been averted? (10+10=20)
No comments:
Post a Comment