Amity Campus

Uttar Pradesh
India 201303

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Resource Management
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ASSIGNMENTS
PROGRAM: MBA IB
SEMESTER-II
: Strategic Human
:Botswana
:IB01112014-20160101
:DIKITSO LEBOGANG

INSTRUCTIONS
a) Students are required to submit all three assignment sets.
ASSIGNMENT
Assignment A
Assignment B
Assignment C

DETAILS
Five Subjective Questions
Three Subjective Questions + Case
Study
Objective or one line Questions

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e)

MARKS
10
10
10

Total weightage given to these assignments is 30%. OR 30 Marks

All assignments are to be completed as typed in word/pdf.
All questions are required to be attempted.
All the three assignments are to be completed by due dates and
need to be submitted for evaluation by Amity University.
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Strategic Human Resource Management

Assignment A
Q1. What do you mean by SHRM? What is the difference between SHRM and
Traditional HRM? Explain the role and benefits of SHRM.
Q2. Write a note on Employment Relationship and Organizational change
Q3. What is leadership? Comment on : Leaders are born not made. Explain
the most suitable Leadership model in todays organizations.
Q4. What is the difference between teams and groups? Illustrate with
examples. Explain the different types of teams.
Q5. Explain the terms Learning organization and Organizational Learning.
Also explain the Blanchard and Hersheys Situational Leadership model.

Assignment B
Q1 Leadership is situational. Explain this statement by bringing out the
situational factors important for effective leadership?
Q2 Discuss the reasons for use of task force in organizations. What are the
problems that are likely to emerge in a task force?
Q3 What do you mean by quality circle? How can it be created in an
organization?

CASE STUDY
Mindy Martin, Al Sharp, Walter Murdoch are working together in an
organization. Mindy Martin and Al Sharp were good friends and all three
had very healthy competition between them as they all were at the same
level. Martin was very hard working, ambitious and responsible employee.
Because of their hard work and good efforts, Martins division had become
the leader in the company and the upper management had praised her
lavishly. She believed that with a good recommendation from Sharp, she
would get that promotion. But unfortunately Murdoch received the
promotion and moved to Topeka.Martin was shocked. It was bad enough
that she did not get the promotion, but she could not stand the fact that
Murdoch had been chosen. She and Al Sharp had taken to calling Murdoch
Mr. Intolerable, because neither of them could stand his pompous
arrogance. She felt that his being chosen was an insult to her. When the
grapevine confirmed her suspicion that Al Sharp had strongly influenced
the decision, she determined to reduce her interaction with Sharp to a
bare minimum.
Relations in the office were very chilly for almost a month. Sharp soon
gave up trying to get that in Martins favor and they began
communicating only in short.
Finally William Attridge, their immediate boss, called the two for a
meeting. William said, were going to sit here until you two become
friends again. Martin resisted for a few minutes, denying that anything
had changed in their relationship, but when she saw that Attridge was
serious, she finally said, Sharp seems more interested in dealing with
Walter Murdoch. Sharp could not say anything. Attridge came to the
rescue. Attridge said that, Martin if youre upset about that promotion,
you'd know that Sharp had nothing but praised for you and kept pointing
out how this division would suffer if we buried you in Topeka. With your
bonuses you are making as much as Murdoch and if you work here

continues to be outstanding, youll be headed for much better place than

Topeka. Embarrassed, Martin looked up at Sharp and apologized for
treating him unfairly. The next day office was almost back to normal.
Martin and Sharp use to take a coffee break together every day as earlier.
Ques1: Describe the ego stage of Martin at 1) Before promotion
2) Promotion takes place
3) Cold war peiod
4) Meeting and thereafter
Ques 2: Which type of conflict resolution style did Martin and Attrige
followed? Explain each in detail.
Que 3: Suggest a negotiation approach to resolve the conflict. Explain your
point.

Assignment C
State a for True and B for False
1. Division of Labour was invented in the 19th century 2. Modern business is uniquely complex 3. Tips on supervision are recorded in a 5,000-year-old document 4. Professional managers were introduced during the 19th century 5. Personnel Management dates from the 1890's in the USA 6. Management education first appeared in Britain and the
Commonwealth 7. Scientific Management was invented by Schmidt 8. Mass production was first used by Henry Ford 9. The ideas of F.W Taylor and Henry Ford have no influence on
management today 10.

'Therblig' was a measure of work -

11.
Elton Mayo was responsible for the famous Hawthorne
experiments 12.

Basically, HRM is just Human Relations -

13.
HRM is one of a number of management fashions that have
developed over the last few decades -

14.

HRM has a unitarist tradition in the USA -

15.

HRM has a unitarist tradition in Europe and Australasia -

16.
Traditional personnel managers had high status compared to
managers in other business functions 17.
The Japanese role model is a mixture of racial stereotyping, myth
and reality 18.
'Just-in-time' and continuous improvement were developed in the
USA 19.
Introduction of HRM on the Harvard MBA had a significant impact
on the subject 20.
HRM has been portrayed as a proactive approach to people
management 21.
______ is a career-path method recognizing that technical
specialists can and should be allowed to continue to contribute their
expertise to a company without having become managers.
a. Demotion
b. Lateral skill path
c. Dual-career path
d. None of the given options
22.
___________ can provide an opportunity for the employee to share
in decision making, to learn by watching others, and to investigate
specific organizational problems.
a. Lectures & Seminars
b. Assistant to Position
c. Committee Assignments
d. Simulations:
23.
Which of these refers to the degree to which decision-making
authority resides at the top of the organizational chart?
a. Job design
b. Decentralization
c. Unity of command
d. Centralization
24.
Playing the role of ____________ requires designing and delivering
efficient and effective HR systems, processes, and practices.
a. Administrative Agent
b. Change Agent
c. Strategic Partner
d. Employee Advocate
25.
Most HR functions spend very little time on:
a. Traditional activities
b. Transactional activities

c. Transformational activities
d. Day-to-day operational activities
26.
Scientific management was one of the earliest and best-known
statements of the _____________ approach.
a. Biological
b. Motivational
c. Perceptual-Motor
d. Mechanistic
27.
Which of these is defined as any practice or activity carried on by
the organization with the primary purpose of identifying and attracting
potential employees?
a. A leading indicator analysis
b. Recruitment
c. Personnel policies
d. Selection
28.
In which of these steps, the HR manager attempts to ascertain
the supply of and demand for various types of human resources?
a. Forecasting
b. Program implementation
c. Evaluation
d. Goal setting
29.
Which of these is the process of getting detailed information
about jobs?
a. Job design
b. Job description
c. Job analysis
d. Job skills
30.
HRM has primary responsibility for all of these implementation
variables except:
a. Task design
b. People
c. Reward systems
d. Organization structure
31.
Which of these is a major dimension of HRM practices
contributing to company competitiveness?
a. Compensating human resources
b. Acquiring and preparing human resources
c. Managing the human resource environment
d. All of the given options
32.
A system used to acquire, store, manipulate, analyze, retrieve,
and distributed information related to the company's human resources
is called a(n) _______________
a. HRIS
b. Progressive discipline system
c. IRS
d. Contingent workforce system

33.
Which one is not basic component of OB (Organizational
Behavior) Model?
a. Organization
b. Group
c. Team
d. Individual
34.
Setting standards should be left to the employee rather than
organization leads to self controlling because:
a. It follows the management by objective approach.
b. It increases the productivity of the worker
c. It increases the confidence of workers
d. Workers come up to the high standard since they have no
pressure from his superiors.
35.
Virtual teams can contribute to better coordination among the
team members because:
a. Technology brings them together on a forum.
b. Team members meet physically with each other
c. Team
members
share
views
among
themselves
via
communication links.
d. Team members have the real time environment for interaction.
36.
The whole is greater than the sum of its parts is known as:
a. Efficiency
b. Effectiveness
c. Productivity
d. Synergy
37.
Essential component of an organization is:
a. Team
b. Structure
c. Individual
d. None of the given options
38.
Process of working with different resources to accomplish
organizational goals is
known as:
a. Strategic management
b. Human Resource management
c. Management
d. Team work
39.
Hawthorne studies depict the effects of work environment on:
a. Human Behavior
b. Human Performance
c. Human Satisfaction
d. All the given options
40.
Appraisal of a workers performance can be described as:
a. Planning Activity
b. Organizing Activity
c. Controlling Activity
d. Leading Activity