Management Programme
ASSIGNMENT
SECOND SEMESTER
2015
MS-46: Management of Financial Services
School of Management Studies
INDIRA GANDHI NATIONAL OPEN UNIVERSITY
MAIDAN GARHI, NEW DELHI – 110 068
MS-46
ASSIGNMENT
Course Code : MS - 46
Course Title : Management of Financial Services
Assignment Code : MS-46/TMA/SEM - II /2015
Coverage : All Blocks
Note: Attempt all the questions and submit this assignment on or before 31
st
October, 2015 to
the coordinator of your study centre.
1. Choose any Financial Institution of your choice and discuss the impact of technology on
the services provided by this Institution in the past two to three years.
2. Select any Non-Bank Finance Company or Financial Institution that issues debt
instruments to raise funds from the market. Discuss in detail the instruments raised by
that company.
3. Discuss different types of schemes which a mutual fund normally launches and compare
their features.
4. Explain the guidelines issued by the Securities and Exchange Board of India in 2000 for
regulating the Venture Capital Funds and Venture Capital Companies in India.
5. For your business if you were to take non-life insurance products, which ones you would
prefer and why. Discuss the policies you have chosen in detail.
Management Programme
ASSIGNMENT
SECOND SEMESTER
2015
MS-45: International Financial Management
School of Management Studies
INDIRA GANDHI NATIONAL OPEN UNIVERSITY
MAIDAN GARHI, NEW DELHI – 110 068
MS-45
ASSIGNMENT
Course Code : MS - 45
Course Title : International Financial Management
Assignment Code : MS-45/TMA/SEM - II /2015
Coverage : All Blocks
Note: Attempt all the questions and submit this assignment on or before 31
st
October, 2015 to
the coordinator of your study centre.
1. Explain in detail how the international financial architecture evolved over a period of
time.
2. Explain Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) relationship and its applications. What are the
reasons for deviations from such relationship?
3. Describe different types of foreign exchange exposures. Explain the techniques used for
management of transaction exposure.
4. Explain in detail the Credit Insurance Policies and Maturity Factoring services offered by
Export Credit Guarantee Corporation.
5. Discuss the basic steps involved in evaluating foreign projects. Why should a foreign
project be evaluated individually as well as from its parent company's viewpoint?
Management Programme
ASSIGNMENT
SECOND SEMESTER
2015
MS-44: Security Analysis and Portfolio Management
School of Management Studies
INDIRA GANDHI NATIONAL OPEN UNIVERSITY
MAIDAN GARHI, NEW DELHI – 110 068
MS-44
ASSIGNMENT
Course Code : MS - 44
Course Title : Security Analysis and Portfolio Management
Assignment Code : MS-44/TMA/SEM - II /2015
Coverage : All Blocks
Note: Attempt all the questions and submit this assignment on or before 31
st
October, 2015 to
the coordinator of your study centre.
1. What do you understand by investment risk? Classify the traditional sources of
investment risk and mention whether they are general sources of risk or specific sources
of risk. How is interest rate risk related to inflation risk?
2. Define the various forms of the market efficiency. State the anomalies in the Efficient
Market Hypothesis.
3. Discuss the CAPM and its application in portfolio selection. Explain the relationship
between SML, CML and Characteristic Line.
4. What are the basic assumptions of Arbitrage Pricing Theory (APT)? Discuss the
problems associated with the empirical testing of APT.
5. Distinguish between performance measurement and performance evaluation of an
investment portfolio. Describe the Sharpe, Treynor and Jensen measures of portfolio
returns.
Management Programme
ASSIGNMENT
SECOND SEMESTER
2015
MS-29: International Human Resource Management
School of Management Studies
INDIRA GANDHI NATIONAL OPEN UNIVERSITY
MAIDAN GARHI, NEW DELHI – 110 068
MS-29
ASSIGNMENT
Course Code : MS - 29
Course Title : International Human Resource Management
Assignment Code : MS-29/TMA/SEM - II/2015
Coverage : All Blocks
Note: Attempt all the questions and submit this assignment on or before 31
st
October, 2015 to
the coordinator of your study centre.
1) Explain cultural differences and similarities in a global perspective. Enlist the
strategies for dealing with cultural differences in global organisations citing
examples.
2) Describe the ‘five-phase’ systematic approach to designing cross-cultural training
programmes. What are the challenges faced in training expatriate managers? Cite
illustrations.
3) Discuss the barriers to cross-cultural communication citing suitable examples.
4) Explain the issues and concerns of international industrial relations scenario with the
help of relevant examples.
Management Programme
ASSIGNMENT
SECOND SEMESTER
2015
MS-28: Labour Laws
School of Management Studies
INDIRA GANDHI NATIONAL OPEN UNIVERSITY
MAIDAN GARHI, NEW DELHI – 110 068
MS-28
ASSIGNMENT
Course Code : MS - 28
Course Title : Labour Laws
Assignment Code : MS-28/TMA/SEM - II/2015
Coverage : All Blocks
Note : Attempt all the questions and submit this assignment on or before 31
st
October, 2015 to
the coordinator of your study centre.
1. What are the sources of Industrial jurisprudence? Explain the genesis, objectives and
classification of labour legislation in India.
2. Discuss the scope and coverage of the Mines Act, 1952. Explain the process of
enforcement of the Act.
3. Discuss the object, scope and coverage of the Industrial Employment (standing orders) Act,
1946. Explain the concept, nature and certification process of standing orders.
4. Explain the objectives, scope and coverage of the minimum wages Act, 1948. Discuss the
powers which the Government can exercise under the Minimum Wages Act.
5. Discuss the genesis and applicability of the Employees’ State Insurance Act, 1948. Explain
the procedure for registration of a factory or an establishment under the Act. State the
various benefits payable under the Act?
Management Programme
ASSIGNMENT
SECOND SEMESTER
2015
MS-27: Wage and Salary Administration
School of Management Studies
INDIRA GANDHI NATIONAL OPEN UNIVERSITY
MAIDAN GARHI, NEW DELHI – 110 068
MS-27
ASSIGNMENT
Course Code : MS - 27
Course Title : Wage and Salary Administration
Assignment Code : MS-27/TMA/SEM - II/2015
Coverage : All Blocks
Note : Attempt all the questions and submit this assignment on or before 31
st
October, 2015 to
the coordinator of your study centre.
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1. Explain the functions and responsibility in a compensation programme of any
organization you are familiar with. Discuss the issues and current trends of the
compensation programme.
2. Define wages under various labour legislation. Discuss, how minimum wage differs from
need based minimum wage?
3. Define job evaluation. Explain the methods and systems of job evaluation have been
followed in any organization you are familiar with. Discuss, how job evaluation is linked
to wage fixation.
4. Define and discuss incentives and pre-requisites of effective incentive scheme. Explain
the various individual and group incentive plans and their respective merits and demerits.
5. Explain the concept of tax planning. Discuss the tax planning on employee compensation.
What is the distinction between tax planning and tax avoidance?
Management Programme
ASSIGNMENT
SECOND SEMESTER
2015
MS-26: Organisational Dynamics
School of Management Studies
INDIRA GANDHI NATIONAL OPEN UNIVERSITY
MAIDAN GARHI, NEW DELHI – 110 068
MS-26
ASSIGNMENT
Course Code : MS - 26
Course Title : Organisational Dynamics
Assignment Code : MS-26/TMA/SEM - II/2015
Coverage : All Blocks
Note: Attempt all the questions and submit this assignment on or before 31
st
October, 2015 to
the coordinator of your study centre.
1. What is alienation? Explain the Sociological and Psychological approach to alienation.
Discuss how alienation can be dealt with an example.
2. What is organizational Stress? Briefly describe the strategies to cope with stress at
individual and organizational levels. Cite few instances how you deal with organizational
stress that you have faced.
3. Discuss the importance of delegation and the forces which influence delegation. Describe
how delegation improved the effectiveness of an organisation with an example.
4. Describe the importance of ethics in present day environment of organisations. Discuss
how organisations can promote ethical behavior. Illustrate.
5. Discuss and describe various dimensions of Diversity and the approaches to deal with
Diversity.
Management Programme
ASSIGNMENT
SECOND SEMESTER
2015
MS-25: Managing Change in Organisations
School of Management Studies
INDIRA GANDHI NATIONAL OPEN UNIVERSITY
MAIDAN GARHI, NEW DELHI – 110 068
MS-25
ASSIGNMENT
Course Code : MS - 25
Course Title : Managing Change in Organisations
Assignment Code : MS-25/TMA/SEM - II/2015
Coverage : All Blocks
Note: Attempt all the questions and submit this assignment on or before 31
st
October, 2015 to
the coordinator of your study centre.
1. Discuss the important factors responsible for change. Explain with the help of examples
what makes excellent companies tick?
2. Discuss the concept of ‘turnaround management’. Cite organizational examples where
turnaround management has taken place successfully.
3. Explain the concept of ‘intervention’ and types of interventions with the help of
examples.
4. Enlist the key roles in managing change citing suitable organisational examples.
ASSIGNMENT
SECOND SEMESTER
2015
MS-46: Management of Financial Services
School of Management Studies
INDIRA GANDHI NATIONAL OPEN UNIVERSITY
MAIDAN GARHI, NEW DELHI – 110 068
MS-46
ASSIGNMENT
Course Code : MS - 46
Course Title : Management of Financial Services
Assignment Code : MS-46/TMA/SEM - II /2015
Coverage : All Blocks
Note: Attempt all the questions and submit this assignment on or before 31
st
October, 2015 to
the coordinator of your study centre.
1. Choose any Financial Institution of your choice and discuss the impact of technology on
the services provided by this Institution in the past two to three years.
2. Select any Non-Bank Finance Company or Financial Institution that issues debt
instruments to raise funds from the market. Discuss in detail the instruments raised by
that company.
3. Discuss different types of schemes which a mutual fund normally launches and compare
their features.
4. Explain the guidelines issued by the Securities and Exchange Board of India in 2000 for
regulating the Venture Capital Funds and Venture Capital Companies in India.
5. For your business if you were to take non-life insurance products, which ones you would
prefer and why. Discuss the policies you have chosen in detail.
Management Programme
ASSIGNMENT
SECOND SEMESTER
2015
MS-45: International Financial Management
School of Management Studies
INDIRA GANDHI NATIONAL OPEN UNIVERSITY
MAIDAN GARHI, NEW DELHI – 110 068
MS-45
ASSIGNMENT
Course Code : MS - 45
Course Title : International Financial Management
Assignment Code : MS-45/TMA/SEM - II /2015
Coverage : All Blocks
Note: Attempt all the questions and submit this assignment on or before 31
st
October, 2015 to
the coordinator of your study centre.
1. Explain in detail how the international financial architecture evolved over a period of
time.
2. Explain Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) relationship and its applications. What are the
reasons for deviations from such relationship?
3. Describe different types of foreign exchange exposures. Explain the techniques used for
management of transaction exposure.
4. Explain in detail the Credit Insurance Policies and Maturity Factoring services offered by
Export Credit Guarantee Corporation.
5. Discuss the basic steps involved in evaluating foreign projects. Why should a foreign
project be evaluated individually as well as from its parent company's viewpoint?
Management Programme
ASSIGNMENT
SECOND SEMESTER
2015
MS-44: Security Analysis and Portfolio Management
School of Management Studies
INDIRA GANDHI NATIONAL OPEN UNIVERSITY
MAIDAN GARHI, NEW DELHI – 110 068
MS-44
ASSIGNMENT
Course Code : MS - 44
Course Title : Security Analysis and Portfolio Management
Assignment Code : MS-44/TMA/SEM - II /2015
Coverage : All Blocks
Note: Attempt all the questions and submit this assignment on or before 31
st
October, 2015 to
the coordinator of your study centre.
1. What do you understand by investment risk? Classify the traditional sources of
investment risk and mention whether they are general sources of risk or specific sources
of risk. How is interest rate risk related to inflation risk?
2. Define the various forms of the market efficiency. State the anomalies in the Efficient
Market Hypothesis.
3. Discuss the CAPM and its application in portfolio selection. Explain the relationship
between SML, CML and Characteristic Line.
4. What are the basic assumptions of Arbitrage Pricing Theory (APT)? Discuss the
problems associated with the empirical testing of APT.
5. Distinguish between performance measurement and performance evaluation of an
investment portfolio. Describe the Sharpe, Treynor and Jensen measures of portfolio
returns.
Management Programme
ASSIGNMENT
SECOND SEMESTER
2015
MS-29: International Human Resource Management
School of Management Studies
INDIRA GANDHI NATIONAL OPEN UNIVERSITY
MAIDAN GARHI, NEW DELHI – 110 068
MS-29
ASSIGNMENT
Course Code : MS - 29
Course Title : International Human Resource Management
Assignment Code : MS-29/TMA/SEM - II/2015
Coverage : All Blocks
Note: Attempt all the questions and submit this assignment on or before 31
st
October, 2015 to
the coordinator of your study centre.
1) Explain cultural differences and similarities in a global perspective. Enlist the
strategies for dealing with cultural differences in global organisations citing
examples.
2) Describe the ‘five-phase’ systematic approach to designing cross-cultural training
programmes. What are the challenges faced in training expatriate managers? Cite
illustrations.
3) Discuss the barriers to cross-cultural communication citing suitable examples.
4) Explain the issues and concerns of international industrial relations scenario with the
help of relevant examples.
Management Programme
ASSIGNMENT
SECOND SEMESTER
2015
MS-28: Labour Laws
School of Management Studies
INDIRA GANDHI NATIONAL OPEN UNIVERSITY
MAIDAN GARHI, NEW DELHI – 110 068
MS-28
ASSIGNMENT
Course Code : MS - 28
Course Title : Labour Laws
Assignment Code : MS-28/TMA/SEM - II/2015
Coverage : All Blocks
Note : Attempt all the questions and submit this assignment on or before 31
st
October, 2015 to
the coordinator of your study centre.
1. What are the sources of Industrial jurisprudence? Explain the genesis, objectives and
classification of labour legislation in India.
2. Discuss the scope and coverage of the Mines Act, 1952. Explain the process of
enforcement of the Act.
3. Discuss the object, scope and coverage of the Industrial Employment (standing orders) Act,
1946. Explain the concept, nature and certification process of standing orders.
4. Explain the objectives, scope and coverage of the minimum wages Act, 1948. Discuss the
powers which the Government can exercise under the Minimum Wages Act.
5. Discuss the genesis and applicability of the Employees’ State Insurance Act, 1948. Explain
the procedure for registration of a factory or an establishment under the Act. State the
various benefits payable under the Act?
Management Programme
ASSIGNMENT
SECOND SEMESTER
2015
MS-27: Wage and Salary Administration
School of Management Studies
INDIRA GANDHI NATIONAL OPEN UNIVERSITY
MAIDAN GARHI, NEW DELHI – 110 068
MS-27
ASSIGNMENT
Course Code : MS - 27
Course Title : Wage and Salary Administration
Assignment Code : MS-27/TMA/SEM - II/2015
Coverage : All Blocks
Note : Attempt all the questions and submit this assignment on or before 31
st
October, 2015 to
the coordinator of your study centre.
s
1. Explain the functions and responsibility in a compensation programme of any
organization you are familiar with. Discuss the issues and current trends of the
compensation programme.
2. Define wages under various labour legislation. Discuss, how minimum wage differs from
need based minimum wage?
3. Define job evaluation. Explain the methods and systems of job evaluation have been
followed in any organization you are familiar with. Discuss, how job evaluation is linked
to wage fixation.
4. Define and discuss incentives and pre-requisites of effective incentive scheme. Explain
the various individual and group incentive plans and their respective merits and demerits.
5. Explain the concept of tax planning. Discuss the tax planning on employee compensation.
What is the distinction between tax planning and tax avoidance?
Management Programme
ASSIGNMENT
SECOND SEMESTER
2015
MS-26: Organisational Dynamics
School of Management Studies
INDIRA GANDHI NATIONAL OPEN UNIVERSITY
MAIDAN GARHI, NEW DELHI – 110 068
MS-26
ASSIGNMENT
Course Code : MS - 26
Course Title : Organisational Dynamics
Assignment Code : MS-26/TMA/SEM - II/2015
Coverage : All Blocks
Note: Attempt all the questions and submit this assignment on or before 31
st
October, 2015 to
the coordinator of your study centre.
1. What is alienation? Explain the Sociological and Psychological approach to alienation.
Discuss how alienation can be dealt with an example.
2. What is organizational Stress? Briefly describe the strategies to cope with stress at
individual and organizational levels. Cite few instances how you deal with organizational
stress that you have faced.
3. Discuss the importance of delegation and the forces which influence delegation. Describe
how delegation improved the effectiveness of an organisation with an example.
4. Describe the importance of ethics in present day environment of organisations. Discuss
how organisations can promote ethical behavior. Illustrate.
5. Discuss and describe various dimensions of Diversity and the approaches to deal with
Diversity.
Management Programme
ASSIGNMENT
SECOND SEMESTER
2015
MS-25: Managing Change in Organisations
School of Management Studies
INDIRA GANDHI NATIONAL OPEN UNIVERSITY
MAIDAN GARHI, NEW DELHI – 110 068
MS-25
ASSIGNMENT
Course Code : MS - 25
Course Title : Managing Change in Organisations
Assignment Code : MS-25/TMA/SEM - II/2015
Coverage : All Blocks
Note: Attempt all the questions and submit this assignment on or before 31
st
October, 2015 to
the coordinator of your study centre.
1. Discuss the important factors responsible for change. Explain with the help of examples
what makes excellent companies tick?
2. Discuss the concept of ‘turnaround management’. Cite organizational examples where
turnaround management has taken place successfully.
3. Explain the concept of ‘intervention’ and types of interventions with the help of
examples.
4. Enlist the key roles in managing change citing suitable organisational examples.
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