Nature and scope of HRM:

Assignment 1 – It is good to read that people management has matured from Industrial Relations (IR) to
Personnel Management (PM) to Human Resource Management (HRM). But has the change been only
cosmetic or real? Put some practical examples to support.

Assignment 2 – Choose 5 companies from an industry of your choice and do the comparative analysis of
their Human resource management policies.

Assignment 3 – Sushil Srivastava is the Managing Director of a growing e-commerce organization. Being
new in the industry, he hasn’t set-up any HR department in his organization for extra cost saving.
Srivastava himself spend time in managing people of his organization resulting in giving most of his time
on people issues. Is this the time Srivastava should consider setting up an HR department and hiring HR
Professionals? How it will help him?

Assignment 4 – Choose one well-established organization. Gather information about the organization’s
goals and objectives. Find out how the structure of the organization. Write down the HR structure in the
organization. Why do you think HR is structured in this way?

Context of HRM:

Assignment 5 – It is a general belief that recommendations form politicians and corporates can help
people to secure jobs. Is this true in today’s changing corporate environment? Does it the same for both
public and private sector organizations? If you are an HR manager how would you handle such
situations?

Assignment 6 – In today’s time, a diverse workforce is changing the way HR departments function in the
organization. Pick the top 10 organizations (Indian context) and find out their diversity and inclusion
policies, activities and initiatives they brought out to manage diversity.

Assignment 7 – Technology robs jobs. What are your views on this? How true is it in Indian Context?
Write down 10 practical examples of workforce layoffs due to technological advancement.

Assignment 8 – Identify 5 companies and collect information on the external and internal HR-related
challenges they face. It could be generic industry challenges or specific and related to close competitors.
Do a comparative analysis based on the following points:

1. External Forces:
a. Political – Legal
b. Economic
c. Technological
d. Cultural Forces
 2. Internal Forces:
a. Strategic Tasks and Leadership
b. Unions
c. Organizational Culture
d. Management

Assignment 9 - As the HR manager you have been informed by the top level of management that teams
will be implemented for the production floor. They have asked you to meet with the supervisors to
devise a plan of action to develop the teams and ensure their success. What would be the plan of
action?

Strategic Human Resource Management:

Assignment 10 – HR roles in strategic management are very little in practice. Rarely is HR executive
consulted in vital decisions, such as mergers or acquisitions. Talk to the select HR executives and
discover the truth.

Assignment 11 – Take 2 big mergers and acquisitions in India and try to identify the key HRM Strategies
followed by the organizations.

Assignment 12 – After fumbling in India for over a decade and losing the top slot to Pepsi, the humbled
cola giant is dreaming big again and rejigging its strategy with a fresh zeal and sharper focus. Reasons for
fumbling are MNC Arrogance, lesser brand equity, higher turnover rate (also on the Top management, 5
CEOs in a decade), controversies such as pesticide, pollution and groundwater depletion, etc. As an HR
manager, what role do you carve for yourself in making Coca Cola the number one cola company in
India?

Human Resource Planning:

Assignment 13 – SSS (Pvt) Ltd. is a family-owned organization where all the top positions are held by the
owner’s relatives. This is making it difficult for the HR manager to retain talent in key positions of the
organization. What should the HR manager do?

Assignment 14 – Paul, the subordinate to James, the production head, is always asking when he is
getting promoted, but James feels, Paul is not fit for promotion. What can James do to prevent Paul
from pestering and leaving the company?

Assignment 15 – A five-year-old firm finally broke even in the fifth year of its existence. For the sixth
year business plan, the management wants to double the firm’s headcount to meet the business goals.
What do you suggest?

Assignment 16 – Take 10 positions of any organization of your choice and make a comprehensive list of
skills required for different positions.
Assignment 17 – ABZ corporation’s HR team proposes an HR Plan where 50 people are hired at the start
of the year and 40 are laid-off at the end of the year. What is your opinion about the proposal? Provide
an alternative plan also.

Assignment 18 – take the top 10 companies in the Indian context and make a comparative list of
managerial succession in those organizations (For example, Mukesh and Anil Ambani succeeded the late
Dhirubhai Ambani). Also, find out the key differences in the succession planning strategies.

Assignment 19 – MD of Triple-A Ltd. Says that HRP is a waste since everything is changing fast. How
would you as an HR manager convince the MD about the usefulness of HRP?

Analysis of Work, Designing Jobs, and Job Evaluation:

Assignment 20 – Take 5 different companies (manufacturing, banking, IT, retail, Power), choose one job
position from each company and analyze these jobs based on the information required for the job
analysis process

Assignment 21 – An usual practice among organizations is to place all jobs into two categories: technical
and non-technical. Identify 10 jobs from different companies of different sectors and find out the
authenticity of the above statement.

Assignment 22 – Amazon.com is one company that has de-jobbing practice. Here a worker is switching
from job to job in three months’ intervals. The organization puts more emphasis on broader worker
specifications than on detailed job descriptions. Find out more about amazon’s de-jobbing policy. Do
you find any organization in India that is practicing de-jobbing?

Assignment 23 – Apply the 6 methods of collecting job data to the roles of a professor and a principal.
Observe key differences between the two jobs and ascertain which method is best for each role.

Assignment 24 - create a job design for each of the following jobs:

1. A Programmer
2. Receptionist
3. Executive Assistant
4. Sale Representative

Assignment 25 – Take 5 different job profiles (Professor, Information system executive, personal
assistant, front desk executive and sales representative) and decide, as an HR manager, how would you
enrich their jobs?

Recruiting Talent:

Assignment 26 – Think of 5 firms you want to submit a job application. List of all factors which attract
you towards the company.
Assignment 27 – You are working in retail MNC as an HR Manager. The north based organization is
recently expanding its operations into south India. The company has given you the task of recruitment of
the entire team. Which factors should be considered in recruitment and what steps will you take to
complete the recruitment process

Assignment 28 – choose the best recruitment source for the following jobs. Explain the reason for your
choice:

1. Pharmacist
2. Housekeeping executive
3. Driver for CEO
4. Car Mechanic

Selecting Right Talent:

Assignment 29 – Have you ever applied for an interview? Recall the questions shot at you and your
answers to them. Do the critical analysis of your answers as an interviewer.

Assignment 30 – Mention 2 best-fit jobs for each of the following selection tests. Give reasons for your
listing:

1. Polygraph Tests
2. Thematic Appreciation Test
3. Delvin Team Role
4. Graphology Test

Assignment 31 – Have you ever given a written standardized test? What was the outcome? To what
extent did it test your strengths and weaknesses?

Assignment 32 – create a job contract for the position of HR executive for the pharmacy retail chain
organization.

Assignment 33 – If you were the chairman of your company, what considerations would guide your
judgment on the following employment issues:

 The hiring of relatives of employees

 Promotion from within vs selecting the best from outside
 Hiring SCs, STs, and candidates belonging to minority communities’

Training & Development, Career Management & Talent Management:

Assignment 34 – Identify 5 companies and find the different induction and orientation programs and
policies of these companies.

Assignment 35 – You were subject to an orientation on the first day of your entry into the college. What
was your experience? Did the college provide all the necessary details required?
Assignment 36 – Name some companies both Indian and Foreign that are known for ethical conduct.
Mention anecdotes associated with each of them

Assignment 37 – “Learning to ride a bicycle” & “learning to type”. How would the methods and
techniques differ between the two tasks?

Assignment 38 – suppose you are teaching a batch of 40 students in a class. How easy or difficult it is to
identify individual differences among them. How do you manage them?

Assignment 39 – you are requested to fill up a feedback sheet at the end of a meal in a restaurant. How
honest is your feedback? Is it a good technique to assess effectiveness?

Assignment 40 – As a frontline supervisor, what indicators would you need to decide whether a low-
performing subordinate was a selection mistake or merely needs training? Can you illustrate this
dilemma with an example?

Assignment 41 – You have been asked to train employees to use personal computers. What factors
would you consider in designing the program?

Assignment 42 – Which training techniques do you recommend for each of the following occupations?
Why?:

1. A clerk in an office
2. A welder
3. An assembly-line worker
4. An inexperienced supervisor

Assignment 43 – Support you are going to design a training program for newly hired first-line sales
managers. Results from the needs assessment indicate that they will need training on company policies
and procedures, handling customer complaints, and motivating sales personnel. What learning
principles will you build into the program? What training methods would you choose? Explain your
choices.

Appraising and Managing Performance:

Assignment 44 – Who would be the raters, under the 360-degree appraisal method, to appraise a waiter
at a specialty restaurant?

Assignment 45 – In most family-owned businesses, sons or daughters join fathers’ business. In such
scenarios, fathers are the bosses and off-springs are the subordinates. How should such bosses rate the
performance of their subordinates? Which of these errors are likely to occur?

Assignment 46 – Mention 2 job profiles suitable for selecting each of the following appraisal methods.
Give reasons:

1. Checklist Methods
 2. Forced Choice Method
3. Critical Incidents Method
4. Field Review Method
5. Assessment Centres

Assignment 47 – The appraisal rating of an employee with just 1 and a half years of service is “A”, while
that of a sincere and committed employee with 15 years of service is “C”. Is it fair? Which possible
factors lead to such ratings?

Assignment 48 – Design a 360-degree questionnaire for the faculty who teach at the MBA college.

Assignment 49 – Design a subjective assessment format for assessing the performance of a sales
representative in an insurance company.

Employee Engagement and Empowerment:

Assignment 50 – List down the observable behaviors exhibited by a college lecturer who is ‘engaged’?

Assignment 51 – Your organization decided to carry out an employee engagement survey to ascertain
the pulse of the organization and ascertains engagement levels across divisions. Your organization chose
you to carry out this survey. What factors would you keep in mind in creating a survey? Prepare a survey
questionnaire selecting all the aspects of an organization.

Organizational Culture:

Assignment 52 – Research and identify at least 10 mission statements of top-performing companies and
find the common thread

Assignment 53 – Based on the media reports and your perceptions gathered from friends and relatives,
list names of 5 companies each with strong and weak cultures. Support your choice with facts available

Assignment 54 – Visit websites of few Indian and Foreign organizations you have heard about and look
for stories that convey their cultures

Assignment 55 – Which of the following organizations ripe for organizational culture? Why?

 A Start-up time
 A small scale unit
 A 50-year-old with a headcount of 5000
 A 30-year-old educational institution with a proven track record
Q1. Write Short Notes on the following:-

i. Compare base compensation with supplementary compensation

ii. Examine the difference between HRM & Strategic management
iii. Human Capital
iv. Poaching
v. Potential appraisal
vi. Process of job evaluation
vii. Different types of separation
Q2. “In the light of the ever changing environment, management of human resources has become a
challenge for the HR professionals”. Analyze the above statement by discussing the emerging challenges
in the field of HRM.

Q3. “Human Resources planning is a prerequisite for effective management of HR” In the light of this
statement, analyze the significance of human resource planning.

Q4. Explain the process of selection of employees in an organization? Describe any three types of
employment test commonly used in Industry? .

Q5. “Assessing training and development needs is one of the most important aspects in effective
training and development system.” Examine the statement and suggest steps for assessing training and
development needs.

Q6. Describe the concept of job evaluation. Classify the quantitative methods of job evaluation with
example.

Q7. Explain the steps of the performance appraisal process. Outline the limitation of traditional methods
of performance appraisal.

Q8. Describe the components of employee’s compensation. What factors determine the wage structure
in an industrial enterprise?