Management Answers

Classify the following purchase decisions in terms of the above

i. Buying a gift for your parent’s 25th wedding anniversary

ii. Laptop

iii. Groceries for daily use at home

iv. Ordering-in food at home on a Sunday evening through Swiggy / Zomato

A restaurant chain is planning to open up a new mid sized multi cuisine restaurant.

Considering their expertise and knowledge in the food and beverages services, they are

confident of getting into the new restaurant operation. You are required to suggest the team on

the following points:

As the HR advisor, please can you outline the root cause analysis (RCA) of the situation and what are some of the key considerations that management should consider to address the underlying issues

For the first time any BBB-rated Asian company outside of Japan has issued a 40-year dollar bond. In January 2022, Resilience Ltd. raised $1.5 billion in a 10-year issue at a coupon or interest rate of 2.875%, $1.75 billion in a 30-year bond at a 3.625% and $750 million in a 40-year issue at a 3.75% coupon rate. The coupon frequency for the 30-year bond is semi-annual and for the others is annual. You’re required to compute the value of the bonds if their face value is $1,000 and the applicable rate is 6.9 percent. 

Banking in India has undergone systematic changes over last 5 decades permitting starting from nationalization in 1969 of 14 private sector banks again to privatization of banks in 1990s. In year 2014 small Payment Banks were set up for financial inclusion and spreading it in different nooks & corners of the country to again a diametrically opposite step of mergers and consolidation of many weak public sector banks with a few large banks in 2018/19. What are the reasons for such changes?

Intelligent Services, your employer, prides itself on hiring minorities. One candidate fully fits the job requirements for an open position in your division. However, your boss is concerned that some of your customers will not understand the candidate’s limited command of the English language. You are the manager to whom this candidate will report, if selected.

a. What decision will you take and how will you explain/justify it to your boss?

b. Which two programs and/or processes will you introduce in your division to be able to successfully deploy many more such candidates in future?

With the world returning to normalcy post the pandemic, as an HR hiring manager you

have the task of forecasting the demand for the next year to make sure you hire the right

number and right kind of people. Explain the techniques of HR demand forecasting that

you will employ in depth

General Electric (GE) is well known for its extraordinary competency in management

development.

a. Discuss how the terms capabilities, competency and distinctive competency differs

from each other.

Also, with reference to the VRIO Framework of analysis, highlight the four questions

which any strategist might have examined in relation to GE for evaluating its

extraordinary competency in management development.

b. Describing VRIO Framework with reference to GE:

-Valuable

-Rareness

-Imitability

-Organization

As a member of TAFTA governing body, you were allocated the task of planning a 5km charity run to raise funds for TAFTA. give a brief background of the 5km charity fun run project, state the projects

1.   You have been appointed as IT Head of a soon to be opened Retail chain store by the name of “India Retail Store” which will have branches all over India. India Retail store is a Private Limited company. Highlight atleast 5 security threats that a Retail store may 

face in today’s times and suggest 5 innovative IT security mechanisms to ensure that such threats do not harm your Retail store chain & that your systems remain as secure as ever.