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Performance of employees at the workplace depends on their personality traits. Describe the five major traits that most researchers agree upon and explain how they lead to meaningful workplace behaviour.
Interpersonal relationships between superiors and subordinates in an organization involve different kinds of power equations. In your opinion, arrange the 5 sources of power in order of importance, that are based on superior subordinate relationships in an organization. Justify your preference.
In the last 3-4 years, with easy and cheap access of internet, there has been significant
rise in various OTT platforms, which got accentuated due to the pandemic in 2020 -
2021. This has affected the DTH market significantly especially in the Tier 1 cities in
India.
a. Considering the concept of Product Life Cycle, where would you put the DTH/Television sector in their lifecycle? Explain each phase of the lifecycle and justify
your answer with examples.
2. Giving examples, explain how some of the Television network companies are evolving
by new product development and attracting more consumers than ever before.
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You and your friend have worked on the idea of a unique two-wheeler that runs on
electricity. This can be mainly used for B2B purpose by all the delivery companies like
Swiggy, Zomato, Tata 100mg and other Online E-commerce platforms. The potential
for the product is huge, however, you need to be very sure of the Product Performance
before you approach the VC for funding for commercial scale manufacturing. To ensure
that the actual product meets the predefined quality standards, you need to do testing at
various stages of NPD. Explain all the different types of testing you will be doing
during the different stages of NPD of your product. What shall be your final step before
you approach VC to fund the project.
Dabur India Ltd is one of the largest FMCG companies in India. It is also World’s
largest Ayurvedic and Natural Hair Care Company. Dabur today operates in key
consumer product categories like Hair Care, Oral Care, Health Care, Skin Care,
Home Care and Foods. The coronavirus pandemic has brought a change in demand dynamics with consumers increasingly seeking Ayurvedic products that build
immunity.
You are the Product Development Manager and have been given a target of introducing
at least 30 new products across their different product categories in the next one year.
Identify different ways you shall consider introducing new products (Hint: Give some
examples of the type of products you would like to consider from the product
categories). Also, since the time period is short what type of “product development”
model you shall use and why? (Hint: Compare some common product development
models studied in the class and explain the benefit of the one that you will choose)
The training manager at ABC corporation has asked you to identify the kind of training
programs that should be offered to the young recruits who have joined as management
trainees and are to be imparted five additional general management programs along with their specify job training modules. The trainees are a mixed bunch of engineering
and management graduates.
(a) How would you formulate your management research questions?
(b) How would you carry out a problem audit? Explain in detail the steps you would
take for this.
(c) What could be the mix of variables that could impact the investor decisions? Is it
possible to represent the same through a theoretical framework?
(d) State your study objectives and research hypotheses.
Phenomena such as waiting times and equipment failure times are
commonly modelled by exponentially decreasing probability density functions. Find the exact form of such a function.
-An Academic ---------- Opportunities. The objective of the study was as follows:
1. To assess the growth and development opportunities available in IT companies.
2. To form comprehensive information shoot on the compensation packages for
employees of various IT opportunities.
3. To assess the tradeoff that employees might make with respect to growth and
development opportunities in case of an attractive compensation package.
4. To profile the typical employee in the IT sector.
5. The implication of the analysis for the IT study.
Develop a questionnaire for the above study based on the objectives?
What other different organisms may have similar body structures?
1. The time to complete the production of certain product for two machines produced by two different
well−known companies (company A and B) were observed to be completely different. The time machine from company A takes to complete the production (in hours) is X~Exp(2) and the time machine from company B takes to produce the product (in hours) is Y~Unif(0, 1). If the performances of the two machines is assumed to independent, what is the distribution of Z = X + Y, the total time they take to complete the production of the product? Hint: use the convolution method.
