Directorate of distance education master of business administration

Self Assessment Questions
1.  Device a plan to improve work motivation of the staff of a private 
company in the service sector, in the light of various theories of 
motivation. 
2.  Explain the most common influences on fixation of wages and salaries 
in the present context. 
3.  Comment on the recent trend in organizations to minimize the fixed 
component of salaries and hike the percentage of variable incentives 
based on performance. 
4.  Examine the present day relevance and significance of Employee 
compensation practices. 
5.  Critically review the status of implementation of employee safety 
measures in factories involving high levels of accident proneness. 

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6.  Suggest suitable measures to be carried out in your organization, 
to enhance the Core Job Characteristics outlined by Oldham and 
Hackman.
7.  Explain the essential contents of a Compensation Policy and their 
effects on attracting and retaining competent and committed 
employees. 
8.  Enumerate the merits and demerits of different methods used for Job 
Evaluation
9.  What is Productivity? What are the gains of high productivity? 
Suggest a plan for a manufacturing organization to improve their 
productivity. 
10. Describe the nature, causal factors and the manifestations of employee 
Morale.
11. Define Stress.  List out and explain the phases of reactions to Stress. 
12. What are the causes, symptoms, types and consequences of job linked 
stress? 
13. List out and outline the various stress management initiatives that 
could be carried out by an organization. 
14. “Striving to maintain high levels of Quality of Work Life (QWL) 
standards would be akin to effective management of Human 
Resources” – Comment.
15. Device a checklist of essential features to re-engineer human resource 
practices in an organization known to you, in accordance with the 
benchmarks from organizations world-wide pertaining to motivation, 
quality of work life, productivity improvement and compensation. 

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