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Human Resource Management
Bring out the various approaches to the study of welfare.
What types of facilities do you expect from your college/university?
Establish a correlation between welfare and productivity.
What do you understand by separations? Explain the different types of separations.
What are transfers? What are the types of transfers?
Bring out the principles of transfers.
What do you understand by the term promotion? Bring out bases for promotion.
What is conflict? Why does it arise? How to resolve it?
“Rightsizing is not a ripple but a tidal wave.” Elaborate.
Bring out the effectiveness of VRS in trimming an organisation’s employee strength.
Why has VRS evoked mixed response everywhere?
Does conflict arise mainly from problem employees?
Does the procedure for handling indiscipline apply to all sectors or it is manufacturing sector-specific?
Let’s look at a couple of situations that will surely resonate with most managers. First, consider the problem facing Annette. She is a senior designer at a large publishing and graphic design
Lakshmi Manufacturing Company is a registered factory employing 600 people. It produces spare parts for cars and scooters. Its security staff at the gate are very rigid in checking people/vehicles
Define the term ‘Industrial Relations’. Bring out its importance.
Bring out the parties and their roles in IR.
Describe an IR strategy.
Explain the different approaches to IR.
“The role of judiciary in IR has been regressive.” Give your viewpoint.
“The management has economic power which it uses to affect the life of a worker.” Discuss.
Sudarshan, the Managing Director of M. Feeds, a Bangalore-based company, is a worried man. All his efforts to regain the lost market and to wipe out red in the company’s balance sheet have proved
What do you understand by labour laws? State and explain the principles of such laws
Bring out the Articles in the Constitution that have relevance for labour laws.
Bring out the arguments for and against labour law reforms.
What do you understand by the reactive and the proactive strategies for industrial relations? Which of these strategies invites labour laws?Why?
Do you think that the rigid labour laws help achieve social justice and social equity? If yes, how?
Arguments mentioned in the book apart, do you have any other reasons for supporting or opposing labour law reforms?
Define a trade union. Why do employees join unions?
Bring out the tactics adopted by unions to influence the management.
Explain the strategies and techniques adopted by the management to keep their plants union-free.
What impact do unions have on employers and employees?
Identify and discuss the factors that make unionisation attractive to employees. Are these factors different today than they were fifty years ago?
It was past 4 pm and Purushottam Kshirsagar was still at his shopfloor office. The small but elegant office was a perk he was entitled to after he had been nominated to the board of Horizon
What is an industrial dispute? What are the causes for disputes?
Bring out the nature of collective bargaining. What is its role in resolving disputes?
What is arbitration? How does it help resolve industrial conflict?
What is grievance procedure? Bring out its merits and demerits.
Describe and comment on:(a) Code of discipline(b) Unfair labour practices
Describe the major collective bargaining issues of today. What do you foresee as the major issues of the future? Elaborate.
How does arbitration differ from grievance procedure? Bring out the respective roles in resolving disputes.
Bitter it may taste, shrill it may sound, and sleeplees nights it may cause, but it is true. In a major shake up, Airbus—the European aircraft manufacturer—has thrown a big shock to its
Define the term ethics. Trace the sources of ethics. Why is ethics important?
What are ethical dilemmas? Explain each.
Explain the various HR ethical issues.
Prepare a list of the guidelines for managing ethics.
“Ethical behaviour is moulded from the clay of human imperfection”—give your viewpoint?
“An HR manager who hopes to substantially alter ethical conduct of an organisation is doomed to disappointment.” Elaborate.
Why is ethical decision-making difficult? Discuss.
Placing yourself as the international manager, comment on each of the opening cases to this chapter.
How does HR function become involved with business ethics in the organisations?
What is HRM evaluation? Why is it justified?
Explain the framework of HRM evaluation.
What are the approaches to HRM evaluation?
Define HR audit. Bring out its scope and approaches.
What is a HR Dash Board? How does it help?
Why should an organisation assess its own HRM function?
How can the effect of HR strategy on organisational performance be explained?
How effective is the benchmarking and balanced scorecard for measuring an HR strategy’s contribution to the financial “bottomline”of a company?
Sitting on 50-plus year old ION Tyres, the Kolkata-based tyres and tubes manufacturing company with a turnover of more than 1,000 crore, both A.K. Mathur, the Chairman and Raman Kumar, the CEO are
Bring out the challenges lying ahead of HRM.
How do changing employee demographics affect HRM?
Bring out the impact of corporate reorganisations on HRM.
How to manage diversity?
How to ensure ethical behaviour?
In what way has increased international competition influenced HRM?
What do you think are the two most important challenges of the HR managers in future? Why do you think so?
Identify and discuss the major forces influencing HRM in future. In your answer, address how these challenges are likely to affect the practice of HRM.
What is IHRM? How does it differ from domestic HRM?
Explain the different activities of IHRM.
Bring out the components of expat remuneration.
What constitutes an expat training?
What is reverse culture shock? How do MNCs cope with it?
How is expat performance assessed?
How are industrial relations of a subsidiary handled?
What is culture shock?
Why do expat failures occur? How can MNCs minimise such failures?
Which staffing policy—ethnocentric, polycentric or geocentric—is preferable for an MNC? Why?
How is a remuneration package tailor-made to expats? Which approach, according to you, is more suitable for MNCs operating in India?
Supposing your company intends to set up a subsidiary in Thailand.Which country’s nationals do you pick up to head the subsidiary—India, Thailand or any other country?
You are asked to draft a repatriation programme. How do you go about it?
Office Equipment Company (OEC) must identify a manager to help set up and run a new manufacturing facility located in the Palestinian-controlled Gaza Strip. The position will have a minimum duration
What is e-HRM? How do web-based HR activities differ from the conventional personnel management functions?
What is e-recruiting? Explain the typical e-recruiting model.
What is e-selection? What are its purposes?
What are the benefits and demerits of e-learning?
How does e-compensation help HR professionals in improving their productivity?
Design e-selection model for an organisation having an employee strength of 2000.
Can e-enabled packages replace conventional methods of handling HR activities? Discuss.
What do you understand by micro, small and medium enterprises?
Bring out the problems faced by the MSM sector units. How do they set a tone for application of HR practices in these units?
Describe the current HR practices followed in small scale units
Do you agree with the statement made by the owner/manager of a small unit — “I don’t want to run the risk of incurring loss by having HR professional”?
What role can each of the following play in application of HR in small units(a) Owner/Manager?(b) Government?(c) HR consultants?(d) Professional bodies?
It is highly difficult to stereotype the man. He refuses to be slotted. At 80, he is not sitting idle and does not indulge in endless gossip which men of his age savour all the time.Octogenarians
What is HRM? What are its functions and objectives?
Outline the policies and principles of HRM.
Explain the HRM models. Which according to you is the most comprehensive?
“HRM policies and principles contribute to the effectiveness, continuity and stability of the organisation.” Give your viewpoint.
“HRM is full of paradoxes. The field is high on rhetoric and low in content.” Comment.
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