NMIMS Global Access

School for Continuing Education (NGA-SCE)

Course: Essentials of HRM
Internal Assignment Applicable for December 2016 Examination
Assignment Marks: 30

Instructions:

All Questions carry equal marks.

All Questions are compulsory

All answers to be explained in not more than 1000 words for question 1 and 2 and for
question 3 in not more than 500 words for each subsection. Use relevant examples,
illustrations as far as possible.

All answers to be written individually. Discussion and group work is not advisable.

Students are free to refer to any books/reference material/website/internet for attempting

their assignments, but are not allowed to copy the matter as it is from the source of
reference.

Students should write the assignment in their own words. Copying of assignments from
other students is not allowed

1. There is lot of emphasis that the processes like HR audit and HR accounting can only
be successful if accurate HR information is available. Validate this statement with
proper explanation on needs and application of HRIS.
Training and development
Performing appraisal
Retention Strategy

(10 Marks)

2. It is continuously heard from employees that their performance evaluation wasn't a

valuable progressive experience. The most important part of the difficulty is that
most managers will avoid discussing performance issues that are related to
behaviour. Its more on ease to discuss about concrete job responsibilities, skills and
goals. There may be a grave concern that is never brought up because the manager

NMIMS Global Access

School for Continuing Education (NGA-SCE)
Course: Essentials of HRM
Internal Assignment Applicable for December 2016 Examination

is afraid of your reaction or may lack the ability to translate it into the right words.
Keeping in view the above sentence discuss any two future oriented performance
appraisal methods which can help resolve such problems.

(10 Marks)

3. Ria joined Techno Geeks a software company as a GET (Graduate Engineer

Trainee). On the very first day of her joining she was given some brochure to read
and subsequently some work was assigned to her. Whenever she had a query she
went to her peers and superiors which they sometime disliked Ria is very confused
and doesnt carry a good impression about the organisation. She then resigned from
her work within a month of joining. The HR realised that the employee turnover is
increasing and the prominent reason behind is the lack of induction.

a) What new strategy the HR should come up with in terms of Induction? Discuss
(5 Marks)
b) Explain the purpose of induction that how things could have been different in above
case if they followed a proper induction pattern.

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(5 Marks)