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NMIMS Semester 2 Assignment Solution June 2021

Prof.Dr.N.Palaniappan.,MBA.,MCom.,MPhil.,PhD. has 15 years of teaching

experience in MBA Business schools. For last fifteen years
Prof.Dr.N.Palaniappan.,MBA.,MCom.,MPhil.,PhD has taught various
subjects from Marketing, Finance, Human Resource Management,
Information Systems, International Business and General Specializations.
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Business Communication

1. You worked as an intern at SuperEventz Event Management Solutions in the

summer of 2018. You were reporting to Maneka Sharma, the head of digital
marketing for SuperEventz. You are now applying for a job opportunity at
Manendra & Manendra for the position of Social Media Manager. The HR
department of Manendra & Manendra needs a letter of recommendation as part of
their hiring process. Write an email to Maneka Sharma requesting for a
recommendation. Use your creativity to make up any details you need in order to
craft an effective message.

2. MaxPlus Cottons is closing its Chennai manufacturing plant amidst a slow

economic climate. Mahesh Kumar, Chief Operating Officer needs to be the bearer
of bad news. The silver lining is that all employees will be redeployed to other
plants, and there will be no job cuts. Considering the nature of the news, Mahesh
has decided to use the indirect approach while writing the email. He is thinking of
an effective buffer to use in the opening paragraph. What is a buffer? Explain any
5 types of buffers, illustrate with examples.

3.a. Rewrite these sentences to reflect your audience’s viewpoint or the “You”
Attitude:

1. Your email order cannot be processed; we request that you use the order form on
our website instead.

2. We insist that you always bring your credit card to the store.

3. We want to get rid of all our 15-inch LCD screens to make room in our
warehouse for the new 19-, 23-, and 35-inch monitors. Thus, we are offering a 25
percent discount on all sales of 15-inch models this week.
4. I am applying for the position of accounting intern in your office. I feel my
grades prove that I am bright and capable, and I think I can do a good job for you.

5. As requested, we are sending the refund for Rs.4500

3.b. Revise the following sentences to be positive rather than negative:

1. You have not filled in every section of the questionnaire we sent you.

2. It’s clear that you have not understood the question.

3. It is very obvious that you are doing everything you can to avoid your
responsibility for refunding all my costs.

4. You failed to specify the colour of the blouse that you ordered.

5. You must understand that by using the water jet cleaner without reading the
instructions carefully means that you are very likely to damage the machine or
possibly cause injury to yourself through incorrect operation.

Strategic Management

1. You have been appointed as a Strategy Consultant to an Italian Luxury Sports

Car manufacturing brand namely “Pagani Huayra” wanting to enter India. Which
one of Porter’s Generic Strategies would you choose to be operational in India &
explain the reasons in detail behind your choice of strategy? Once the strategy has
been chosen, explain the categories of customers you would target alongwith the
price points?

2. Kikkoman, a Japanese soy sauce manufacturer wishes to enter India. Conduct a

PESTLE analysis for Kikkoman in India & suggest whether Kikkoman should
enter India or otherwise.
3. You are the Chairman of a French FMCG company in India by the name of
“FrenchShine”. You are operating in the “Soaps & Detergents” category & are
facing tough rivals like HUL, Nirma & P&G. You have been operating in India
since 2016. During 2020, there has been a steady decline in your revenues &
profitability. Your market share has also fallen from 6% to 2.5% during 2020.
Your competitors are eating into your market share slowly & steadily during
Covid-19 pandemic times.

a. What turnaround strategies can you suggest to arrest the decline of revenues &
profitability of your company?

b. In your opinion, would it be considered appropriate to pursue a Strategic

Alliance or a JV Strategy or should “FrenchShine” go it alone in India? State your
response with appropriate justifications & reasons. What would be the advantages
& disadvantages of such a strategy?

Operations Management

1. What are various decision criteria for deciding a location for a business setup?
Explain these decision criteria with reference to a location decision for setting up
operations of a Large Hospitality Setup (like a Resort. etc).

2. List down briefly the various inventory management techniques prevalent in the
industry. Discuss how some of these techniques would be applicable to a Medical
Store in effective management of their inventories, i.e medical supplies.

3. Many business organizations have operations in which operations management

is a daily and constant process. Managing a Restaurant is one such business,
wherein the procurement and managing various resources is a very strategic
process. Explain the following concepts (with atleast one example) in Operations
of a Restaurant business, and conclude how relevant is it in the business?

a) Define Quality and list and discuss in brief the various dimensions of quality in
operations

b) Bill of Material (BOM)

Business Law

1. List out the implied warranties under the Sales of Goods Act, 1930 and provide
an example explaining each implied warranty.

2. Explain in detail two (2) real-life cases of penalties being imposed for offences
under Information Technology Act, 2000. Please explain the facts and the nature of
the offence in detail.

3. Rehan’s father died due to COVID-19 complications but Rehan felt that the
negligence of the hospital authorities led to his father dying. The hospital in which
his father was admitted is a government hospital. Now, Rehan wants to file a case
against the hospital towards this negligence. He requested the hospital to provide
the case papers of his father health records, admission records and other details of
his stay in the hospital. However, the hospital refused it.

a. Under what law can Rehan apply to obtain the documents and records from the
government hospital in light of the refusal of the government hospital to provide
the same? Please explain the answer with reasons

b. Can the government hospital refuse the provision of the documents, if yes under
which law? Please explain the answer with reasons

Essentials of HRM
1. In your experience what are the barriers which prevent oneself from being an
effective communicator? What were the challenges you faced? Suggest some ways
to handle such challenges.

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2. Suppose that you are the HR manager at a firm where hiring-freeze has been
declared due to the ongoing pandemic. The plan is to downsize through attrition.
What steps would you take to ensure that you reap the advantages of this strategy
while minimizing the disadvantages.

3. Rahul and Priyanka are partners in a content writing company named as

‘Writing4You’. Rahul says it’s quite clear whether any particular employee of the
company is doing their job properly or not, as they monitor, observe and give them
feedback regularly. Being a small company Rahul feels a formal appraisal process
is of no use because they (both Rahul & Priyanka) can keep in touch with every
employee on a regular basis. Priyanka on the other hand, feels that sitting down
and giving formal feedback will reinforce what employees are doing right and get
them to modify things they may be doing wrong. Now, they want you, their
management consultant to advise them on what to do.

a. What performance appraisal problems will ‘Writing4You’ encounter if they

continue on the course of not using formalized performance appraisals?

b. What guidelines would you recommend to ‘Write4You’ partners for developing

an effective appraisal system?

Decision Science
1. Nemi Mehta is owning 50 Hectares of land near Junagadh. On his Farm, he
cultivates Giloy, which is a medicinal plant in Ayurveda. The below-given table
shows the sales of ‘Giloy Vati’ that his team is preparing as per one Ayurveda
script (book), and the amount they spend on the Advertisement of it. Nemi’s
problem is to analyze the effect of Advertisement on sales. Firstly, He wants to
understand the presence of a linear relationship between the sales and ‘amount
spent in advertisement’. He also wants to run a correlation and regression to know
whether he should keep spending money on Advertisements or not. If sales figures
are not affected by advertisement, he should not spend money on it.

So, take the EXCEL output of the following and write the interpretation.

 Appropriate type of Graph which can exhibit the linear relation b/w
variables.

 Karl Pearson’s Correlation Coefficient

 Regression Analysis

 Graph that shows predicted v/s actual sales figures.

2. The table given below is the ‘single year age population’ (taken from census
2011). This table shows the population of people (age-wise) living in Leh at the
time of the census 2011 survey. Transform this ungrouped data into Grouped data
by forming age groups (only five age groups), and then find out Mean, Variance,
Standard deviation, Ogive, and Histogram. Write the summary based on your
calculations.

3.a. The given table shows the rainfall of Gujarat Region. Forecast the rainfall
using Exponential Smoothing. Use Alpha =0.2, 0.5 and 0.8. Data is available from
1997 to 2016, use this series for the calculation and forecast the rainfall for the
year 2017. To know, what extent the prediction is correct, actual rainfall for 2017
(1024.4 millimeters) is provided. Based on MSE and MAD, find out which alpha
values among the three suggestions are relatively near to actual value?

3.b. A new gas-electric hybrid car has recently hit the market. The distance
traveled on 1 gallon of fuel is normally distributed with a mean of 65 miles and a
standard deviation of 4 miles. Find the probability of the following events. (show
the concerned region by z curve)