Thursday, January 28, 2010
MGT501 - HRM solution
ANSWER:
According to my point of view the best strategy for HR executives is to hire people of the host country whom they are starting business.
REASON
vThey can have best knowledge about their country, cities, people, culture, and people’s attitude and about Government roles and polices,.
v They have best knowledge about their market. How they can capture the market.
v How company survival in the market.
v What or quality and standers are adopted in their market or country, culture.
vThey Know What products they produce which highlight their logo and insignia
vThey know how company can increase its market share and profit.
vThey know which product they produce for highest people satisfaction.
vThey know how many competitors are available in the market. What strategy they will adopt.
vThey know how company can get an edge from them.
vThey Know How they built relationship with customers.
vThey Know How company can progress by leaps and bound.
Eng301 _ Biz Comm. GDB Announcment
Graded MDB for ENG301 will be opened on 1 February, 2010 and will remain open till February 2, 2010. The topic of this GMDB will be:
Business communication is a dynamic course which keeps itself updated with the new business demands. Comment.
Post your comments after inferring the above topic. Your comments should NOT exceed from 100 to 120 words.
Read the instructions carefully before sending your comments:
1. Graded MDB carries 5% weightage.
2. Your comments should be relevant to the topic, clear and concise.
3. Post your comments on the Graded MDB & not on the Regular MDB. Both will run in parallel during the time specified above.
4. Do not copy the comments of other Students, as no marks will be awarded for plagiarism.
5. Comments sent via e-mail or posted on regular MDB will not be graded.
6. Don’t send your comments twice.
Business communication is a dynamic course which keeps itself updated with the new business demands. Comment.
Post your comments after inferring the above topic. Your comments should NOT exceed from 100 to 120 words.
Read the instructions carefully before sending your comments:
1. Graded MDB carries 5% weightage.
2. Your comments should be relevant to the topic, clear and concise.
3. Post your comments on the Graded MDB & not on the Regular MDB. Both will run in parallel during the time specified above.
4. Do not copy the comments of other Students, as no marks will be awarded for plagiarism.
5. Comments sent via e-mail or posted on regular MDB will not be graded.
6. Don’t send your comments twice.
CS101 GDB
"Web Technology role in “Distance Learning” is the final and ultimate approach to meet the learning requirements of new era. Justify the statement."
Web technology has significantly changed the exchange of information, allowing anyone with access to a personal computer with on-line capability the opportunity to gather substantial materials from diverse and wide-ranging sources. Computer literacy and Internet facility are still not universal skills, though more and more individuals are becoming skilled at using computers and at accessing the Internet. By creating a digital framework in which a community of peers can evaluate and organize these efforts, we can begin to build not only an increasingly robust and complex array of learning opportunities for adult students of diverse and often entrenched learning styles, but the knowledge base by which their teachers can establish best practices, pedagogical strategies, and an in understanding of their endeavor. The Internet has had a profound impact on the ways in which many different tasks are accomplished.
Definition of Distance Learning:
"Distance learning or education is a field of education that focuses on the pedagogy and andragogy, technology and instructional systems design that aim to deliver education to students who are not physically "On site"
WEB TECHNOLOGY ROLE IN DISTANCE LEARNING:
"Distance learning has received a boost due to the low price of internet communication and the availability of web-based interactive content."
The students who want to continue their jobs with their current jobs this is very convenient option available to them. Physical locating is less of hindrance now. We are turning more and more toward online resources of information
Example:
VU institute is the best example and it better explains the web technology role in distance learning because:
VU student are not take lectures through physically teacher presence.
All their dealings, papers, assignments, quizzes are taken from the student through web technology.
Students can interact with the other students and the teachers with the help of internet which is actually web technology.
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Mgt502 OV - Online Quiz 3
The sunshine company is reducing its size by selling off or closing down units and product lines to increase profitability. What is company doing?
Select correct option:
Downsizing
Rightsizing
Reengineering
Acquisition
If personality characteristics were completely dictated by ________, they would be fixed at birth and no amount of experience could alter them.
Select correct option:
Job satisfaction
Heredity
Environment
Situations
The two general approaches to bargaining are known as:
Select correct option:
Emotional and rational
Affective and reflective
Distributive and integrative
Formal and informal
Which of the following is an accurate definition of recruitment?
Select correct option:
The process of short listing employees from a pool of applicants
The process by which companies fill the need to find new employees
It is a document that explain duties and responsibilities of employees
It is a technique for reducing the labor supply with in an organization
Ineffective planning of workforce would be highlighted by:
Select correct option:
Recruitment and selection problems
The need to out source some of the production
A need to offer retraining to current employees
An opportunity to increase the use of mechanization
People with which type of personality trait commonly make poor decisions because they make them too fast?
Select correct option:
Type As
Type Bs
Self-monitors
Extroverts
Which of the following is ‘NOT’ one of the most common reasons people join groups?
Select correct option:
Security
Status
Equity
Power
Which of the following is the most likely explanation for the higher absentee rate of women in the workplace?
Select correct option:
Women tend to have more illnesses that keep them from work than do men
Traditionally, women have had the responsibility of caring for home and family
Women tend to be less satisfied with their jobs than men
Women generally have jobs for which a temporary replacement can be hired
Th
e management of Z&H Corporation is rethinking and redesigning those processes by which the organization can create value and get-ridding itself from operations that have become antiquated in the computer age. What is Z&H doing?
Select correct option:
Merger
Downsizing
Rightsizing
Reengineering
The employee writes a complaint letter to his manager. Putting his thoughts onto paper is an example of:
Select correct option:
Encoding
Messaging
Channeling
Cryptography
Performance evaluations are used to _____.
Select correct option:
Improve group cohesiveness
Define departmental structure
Validate employee selection programs
Identify how jobs are completed
Omega Electronics Company decides to establish southern, Midwestern, western, and eastern zones of operation. Based on this expansion, the organization is doing which of the following type of departmentalization?
Select correct option:
Customer
Geography
Regional
Matrix
Which of the following statements about the determinants of personality is true?
Select correct option:
Personality appears to be a result of external factors
Personality appears to be a result of mainly hereditary factors
Personality appears to be a result of mainly environmental factors
Personality appears to be a result of both hereditary and environmental factors
In which stage of the conflict process does conflict become visible?
Select correct option:
Illumination
Intentions
Behavior
Cognition
Some individuals promote their image by describing others with whom they are associated in a positive light. These individuals are using which of the following impression management technique?
Select correct option:
Conformity
Flattery
Association
Self-promotion
Trust and trustworthiness affect a leader’s access to:
Select correct option:
Dedication and achievement
Persuasion and control
Power and influence
Knowledge and cooperation
What term is used for intense feelings that are directed at someone or something?
Select correct option:
Affect
Cognition
Thoughts
Emotions
Ahmed believes that men perform better in oral presentations than women. What shortcut has been used in this case?
Select correct option:
The halo effect
The contrast effect
Projection
Stereotyping
If you support the idea that conflict should be eliminated, you are supporting which of the following views of conflict?
Select correct option:
The traditional view
The human relations view
The interactionist view
The positivistic view
Which one of the following is NOT implied in the definition of power?
Select correct option:
Influence
Potential
Dependency
Actualization
Values like working hard, being creative and honest are the means which lead towards achieving organizational goals. Which of the following term best describes these values?
Select correct option:
Terminal values
Instrumental values
Theoretical values
Social values
In the modern work world, where higher-level trust has been largely destroyed because of broken promises, it is likely to be replaced with which of the following type of trust?
Select correct option:
Reliance-based
Dependence-based
Knowledge-based
Identity-based
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
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Monday, January 25, 2010
STA630 Quiz # 5 ONLINE
Question
The logic of purposive sampling is:
Select correct option:
1. That a random sample can generalize to a population.
2. That a few information-rich participants studied in depth yield many insights about a topic.
3. To include all participants, even though they are not all relevant to the problem.
4. To use participants because the researcher has access to them.
Question
An indicator of reliability based on the correlations of each item in a measure with every other item is called:
Select correct option:
1. Test-retest reliability
2. Cronbach's alpha
3. Split-half reliability
4. Inter item ratio
Question
Why does qualitative interviewing have an advantage over participant observation when it comes to longitudinal research?
Select correct option:
1. Repeat interviews are easier to organise.
2. It allows for a better exploration of key issues.
3. It is a more focused research method.
4. Participant observers are prone to 'go native' during longitudinal research.
Question #
An operational definition is:
Select correct option:
1. One that bears no relation to the underlying concept.
2. An abstract, theoretical definition of a concept.
3. A definition of a concept in terms of specific, empirical measures.
4. One that refers to opera singers and their work.
Question
To say that a theory is falsifiable is to say that;
Select correct option:
1. It is based on results that are not replicable.
2. Investigators have replaced it with a simpler or more accurate theory.
3. We can imagine results that would contradict it.
4. It is so vague that it fits any and all possible results.
Question
Which type of research address major societal change?
Select correct option:
1. Experimental Research
2. Action Research
3. Social Research
4. Historical Comparative Research
Question
Which term technically describes a situation in which an observer's work in a first-grade classroom disrupts the normal routines due to the curiosity of the students?
Select correct option:
1. Observer effect
2. Participant effect
3. Non participant bias
4. Observer bias
Question
What is the variable called, in an experiment, which is manipulated by the researcher?
Select correct option:
1. Stimulus
2. Control
3. Dependent
4. Independent
Question
If a measure is consistent over multiple occasions, it has:
Select correct option:
1. Inter-rater reliability
2. Construct validity
3. Internal validity
4. Test-retest reliability
Question
Bias is defined as;
Select correct option:
1. The distortion of responses based on gender, ethnicity, race, or language
2. A lack of validity
3. A lack of reliability
4. A poor interpretation of a student's score
Question #
In frequency tables total of columns and rows are called:
Select correct option:
1. Body of table
2. Cell of table
3. Area of table
4. Marginal
Question
What type of the interview that is in which questions are already prepared?
Select correct option:
1. Telephonic interview
2. Personal interview
3. Unstructured interview
4. Structured interview
Question
All of these are characteristics of scientific methods of research except, it is;
Select correct option:
1. Cumulative
2. Deterministic
3. Unethical
4. Rationalism
Question
Which of the following is NOT an unethical issue?
Select correct option:
1. Invoicing irregularities
2. Avoiding legal liability
3. Misrepresenting results
4. Seek approval for research
Question
Which of the following is not something a researcher will have to consider when thinking about their sample size?
Select correct option:
1. Time and cost.
2. Non-response.
3. Length of questionnaire.
4. Heterogeneity of population.
Question
A ________ scale only assigns numbers to objects to classify the objects according to the characteristic of interest.
Select correct option:
1. Ratio
2. Nominal
3. Interval
4. Dichotomous
Question
The logic of qualitative data analysis is described as:
Select correct option:
1. Objective
2. Subjective
3. Inductive
4. Deductive
Question
Which of the following is the best hypothesis statement to address the research question, "What impact will the new advertising campaign have on use of Brand B?"
Select correct option:
1. The new advertising campaign will impact Brand B usage.
2. The new advertising campaign will increase Brand B trial.
3. The new advertising campaign will cause increased Brand B usage at the expense of Brand C.
4. The new advertising campaign will increase Brand B's market penetration.
Question
Detailed and unambiguous instructions are particularly important for:
Select correct option:
1. Computer-assisted telephone surveys
2. Mail surveys
3. Computer-assisted personal interviews
4. Internet surveys
Question
Which of the following terms best describes data that were originally collected at an earlier time by a different person for a different purpose?
Select correct option:
1. Primary data
2. Secondary data
3. Experimental data
4. Field notes
The logic of purposive sampling is:
Select correct option:
1. That a random sample can generalize to a population.
2. That a few information-rich participants studied in depth yield many insights about a topic.
3. To include all participants, even though they are not all relevant to the problem.
4. To use participants because the researcher has access to them.
Question
An indicator of reliability based on the correlations of each item in a measure with every other item is called:
Select correct option:
1. Test-retest reliability
2. Cronbach's alpha
3. Split-half reliability
4. Inter item ratio
Question
Why does qualitative interviewing have an advantage over participant observation when it comes to longitudinal research?
Select correct option:
1. Repeat interviews are easier to organise.
2. It allows for a better exploration of key issues.
3. It is a more focused research method.
4. Participant observers are prone to 'go native' during longitudinal research.
Question #
An operational definition is:
Select correct option:
1. One that bears no relation to the underlying concept.
2. An abstract, theoretical definition of a concept.
3. A definition of a concept in terms of specific, empirical measures.
4. One that refers to opera singers and their work.
Question
To say that a theory is falsifiable is to say that;
Select correct option:
1. It is based on results that are not replicable.
2. Investigators have replaced it with a simpler or more accurate theory.
3. We can imagine results that would contradict it.
4. It is so vague that it fits any and all possible results.
Question
Which type of research address major societal change?
Select correct option:
1. Experimental Research
2. Action Research
3. Social Research
4. Historical Comparative Research
Question
Which term technically describes a situation in which an observer's work in a first-grade classroom disrupts the normal routines due to the curiosity of the students?
Select correct option:
1. Observer effect
2. Participant effect
3. Non participant bias
4. Observer bias
Question
What is the variable called, in an experiment, which is manipulated by the researcher?
Select correct option:
1. Stimulus
2. Control
3. Dependent
4. Independent
Question
If a measure is consistent over multiple occasions, it has:
Select correct option:
1. Inter-rater reliability
2. Construct validity
3. Internal validity
4. Test-retest reliability
Question
Bias is defined as;
Select correct option:
1. The distortion of responses based on gender, ethnicity, race, or language
2. A lack of validity
3. A lack of reliability
4. A poor interpretation of a student's score
Question #
In frequency tables total of columns and rows are called:
Select correct option:
1. Body of table
2. Cell of table
3. Area of table
4. Marginal
Question
What type of the interview that is in which questions are already prepared?
Select correct option:
1. Telephonic interview
2. Personal interview
3. Unstructured interview
4. Structured interview
Question
All of these are characteristics of scientific methods of research except, it is;
Select correct option:
1. Cumulative
2. Deterministic
3. Unethical
4. Rationalism
Question
Which of the following is NOT an unethical issue?
Select correct option:
1. Invoicing irregularities
2. Avoiding legal liability
3. Misrepresenting results
4. Seek approval for research
Question
Which of the following is not something a researcher will have to consider when thinking about their sample size?
Select correct option:
1. Time and cost.
2. Non-response.
3. Length of questionnaire.
4. Heterogeneity of population.
Question
A ________ scale only assigns numbers to objects to classify the objects according to the characteristic of interest.
Select correct option:
1. Ratio
2. Nominal
3. Interval
4. Dichotomous
Question
The logic of qualitative data analysis is described as:
Select correct option:
1. Objective
2. Subjective
3. Inductive
4. Deductive
Question
Which of the following is the best hypothesis statement to address the research question, "What impact will the new advertising campaign have on use of Brand B?"
Select correct option:
1. The new advertising campaign will impact Brand B usage.
2. The new advertising campaign will increase Brand B trial.
3. The new advertising campaign will cause increased Brand B usage at the expense of Brand C.
4. The new advertising campaign will increase Brand B's market penetration.
Question
Detailed and unambiguous instructions are particularly important for:
Select correct option:
1. Computer-assisted telephone surveys
2. Mail surveys
3. Computer-assisted personal interviews
4. Internet surveys
Question
Which of the following terms best describes data that were originally collected at an earlier time by a different person for a different purpose?
Select correct option:
1. Primary data
2. Secondary data
3. Experimental data
4. Field notes
Sunday, January 24, 2010
MGT501- HRM 1st Assignment solution
All Students of Fall Semester are informed that an assignment for
"Human Resource Management (MGT501)"
Assignment Topic is:
"HR Strategies in Global Perspectives"
Instructions:
Opening Date and Time
January 25,2009 At 12:01 AM
Closing Date and Time
January 30,2009 At 11:59 PM
........................
SOLUTION
The Internal Recruitment is the most favorite source of candidates in the stable and developed companies. The Internal Recruitment needs a strong support from other HR Processes, because the unmanaged internal recruitment process can lead to disappointed managers and employees in the organization. The Succession Planning and strong and consistent Performance Management are needed to ensure the success of the internal recruitment.
The internal recruitment can offer the chance to change the job position to anyone in the organization, but the efficient internal recruitment process needs a strong help from other processes to provide managers with the additional information to work with. In case of the unknown additional information, the internal recruitment process can not offer much of the value added. The internal job candidate should be known to the organization and the HRM Function should provide the hiring manager with the information about the background information.
The internal recruitment process has to be driven by strict and agreed HR Rules and HR Policies as the unclear rules for the process can bring a lot of tension inside the organization as the best employees can be easily stolen among different units and different managers. This issue looks pretty simple to solve, but the reality can bring difficult issues and conflicts among the management team and can affect the performance of the organization hardly.
Internal recruitment
Advantages
* Lower cost, because not paying external agency to recruit for you
* May improve morale of existing staff
* Recognition and reward of the good performance of internal staff
* Reinforces & supports the company's succession planning strategies
* Internal staff are a 'known' quantity with existing information available about their skills
Rational recruitment satrategy.
• Define the situation/decision to be made
• Identify the important criteria for the process and the result
• Consider all possible solutions
• Calculate the consequences of these solutions versus the likelihood of satisfying the criteria
• Choose the best option
1. So first we define the mission as it is (recruitment).
2. Then we recognize the area importance and witch is the best process we can use for hiring the people.
3. then we allocate the alternative recording to the recruitment
4. Make a plan for performing step by step this process.
5. and the end of rational recruitment we must consider all possible solution
"Human Resource Management (MGT501)"
Assignment Topic is:
"HR Strategies in Global Perspectives"
Instructions:
Opening Date and Time
January 25,2009 At 12:01 AM
Closing Date and Time
January 30,2009 At 11:59 PM
........................
SOLUTION
The Internal Recruitment is the most favorite source of candidates in the stable and developed companies. The Internal Recruitment needs a strong support from other HR Processes, because the unmanaged internal recruitment process can lead to disappointed managers and employees in the organization. The Succession Planning and strong and consistent Performance Management are needed to ensure the success of the internal recruitment.
The internal recruitment can offer the chance to change the job position to anyone in the organization, but the efficient internal recruitment process needs a strong help from other processes to provide managers with the additional information to work with. In case of the unknown additional information, the internal recruitment process can not offer much of the value added. The internal job candidate should be known to the organization and the HRM Function should provide the hiring manager with the information about the background information.
The internal recruitment process has to be driven by strict and agreed HR Rules and HR Policies as the unclear rules for the process can bring a lot of tension inside the organization as the best employees can be easily stolen among different units and different managers. This issue looks pretty simple to solve, but the reality can bring difficult issues and conflicts among the management team and can affect the performance of the organization hardly.
Internal recruitment
Advantages
* Lower cost, because not paying external agency to recruit for you
* May improve morale of existing staff
* Recognition and reward of the good performance of internal staff
* Reinforces & supports the company's succession planning strategies
* Internal staff are a 'known' quantity with existing information available about their skills
Rational recruitment satrategy.
• Define the situation/decision to be made
• Identify the important criteria for the process and the result
• Consider all possible solutions
• Calculate the consequences of these solutions versus the likelihood of satisfying the criteria
• Choose the best option
1. So first we define the mission as it is (recruitment).
2. Then we recognize the area importance and witch is the best process we can use for hiring the people.
3. then we allocate the alternative recording to the recruitment
4. Make a plan for performing step by step this process.
5. and the end of rational recruitment we must consider all possible solution
GDB IT430 Ecommerce Solution
“Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of opening an online business in Pakistan.”
Your answer should not exceed from 8 lines. Please prepare its answer as early as possible. Don’t try to post duplicate entries and avoid posting very large comments. Regards,
Note: Graded MDB will not be accepted via email
Due Date: 27-01-2010
..............................
Advantages OF Online Business in Pakistan:
• The centralized administration of office productivity
• The cost is low. In most cases, there is no specific charge for using the service for users who already have access to a computer with a web browser and a connection to the Internet.
• Centralized storage of data, rather than traditional personal data responsibility;
• Applications which focus on collaborative data sharing, document review and document resource management;
• Office applications which are able to be run from multiple independent platforms with a suitable back-end framework to present the application in a uniform manner.
• If the user's computer fails, the documents are still safely stored on the remote server. Online service providers' backup processes and overall stability will generally be superior to that of most home systems.
Disadvantages OF Online Business in Pakistan
• Access requires connectivity--if the remote server or network is unavailable, the content will also be unavailable. However, in many cases, the online suite will allow the user to regularly backup data or even provide synchronization of documents between the server and the local computer.
• There are speed and accessibility issues. Most of the available online office suites require a high speed. That can be a problem for users who are limited by a slower connection to the Internet.
• The number of features available is an issue. Online office suites lack the more advanced features available on their offline counterparts.
Your answer should not exceed from 8 lines. Please prepare its answer as early as possible. Don’t try to post duplicate entries and avoid posting very large comments. Regards,
Note: Graded MDB will not be accepted via email
Due Date: 27-01-2010
..............................
Advantages OF Online Business in Pakistan:
• The centralized administration of office productivity
• The cost is low. In most cases, there is no specific charge for using the service for users who already have access to a computer with a web browser and a connection to the Internet.
• Centralized storage of data, rather than traditional personal data responsibility;
• Applications which focus on collaborative data sharing, document review and document resource management;
• Office applications which are able to be run from multiple independent platforms with a suitable back-end framework to present the application in a uniform manner.
• If the user's computer fails, the documents are still safely stored on the remote server. Online service providers' backup processes and overall stability will generally be superior to that of most home systems.
Disadvantages OF Online Business in Pakistan
• Access requires connectivity--if the remote server or network is unavailable, the content will also be unavailable. However, in many cases, the online suite will allow the user to regularly backup data or even provide synchronization of documents between the server and the local computer.
• There are speed and accessibility issues. Most of the available online office suites require a high speed. That can be a problem for users who are limited by a slower connection to the Internet.
• The number of features available is an issue. Online office suites lack the more advanced features available on their offline counterparts.
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