BUAD 812
2017 September Semester (Sept-Jan) Examination (Group 1- weekend group)
Course- BUAD 812 Analysis for Business Decisions
INSTRUCTIONS: Answer any three (3) questions
All questions carry equal marks (10 marks) Time allowed: 2 Hours.
1. Discuss extensively the assumptions associated with queuing theory
2. What are the key steps in a simplex method?
3. Discuss the concept of linear programming and duality
4. Explain in details what you understand by vogels approximation method
5. Solve the following linear programming using the Simplex method:
Maximize Z = f(x,y) = 3x + 2y
subject to: 2x + y ≤ 18
2x + 3y ≤ 42
3x + y ≤ 24
x≥0,y≥0
2017 September Semester (Sept-Jan) Examination (Group 2- weekday group)
Course- BUAD 812: Analysis for Business Decisions
INSTRUCTIONS: Answer any three (3) questions
All questions carry equal marks (10 marks) Time allowed: 2 Hours.
1. Discuss the importance of sensitivity analysis in linear programming.
2. Discuss extensively the assumptions associated with queuing theory.
3. What are the essential characteristics of problems that can be solved by linear
programming methods?
4. Discuss the key steps in a simplex method
5. Solve the following linear programming using the Simplex method:
Maximize Z= X1 + X2
Subject to: 2X1 + X2 ≤ 4
X1 + 2X2 ≤ 3
X1 ≥ 0, X2 ≥ 0
BUAD 813
2017 September Semester (Sept-Jan) Examination (Group 1- weekend group)
Course- BUAD 813: Industrial Conflict and Industrial Relations
INSTRUCTIONS: Answer any three (3) questions
All questions carry equal marks (10 marks) Time allowed: 2 Hours.
1. What is conflict management? What are two main ways in which organisational
conflicts can be handled?
2. Explain the objectives of industrial relations .
3. Why do conflicts arise within an organisation?
4. Discuss the four main aspects of industrial relations.
5. The environmental context of industrial relations is made up of three sets of
variables, discuss.
2017 September Semester (Sept-Jan) Examination (Group 2- weekday group)
Course- BUAD 813: Organizational Conflict and Industrial Relations
INSTRUCTIONS: Answer any three (3) questions
All questions carry equal marks (10 marks) Time allowed: 2 Hours.
1. Discuss the strategies for managing conflict.
2. Why do industrial relations problems exist? In your own opinion, explain how
these problems can be minimised.
3. Identify and explain the roles of government in industrial relation.
4. What do you think is the effect of organisational conflict?
5. Discuss the theories of industrial relations.
BUAD 814
September Semester (Sept-Jan) Examination (Group 1- weekend group)
Course- BUAD 814: Personnel Performance and Evaluation Management
INSTRUCTIONS: Answer any three (3) questions
All questions carry equal marks (10 marks) Time allowed: 2 Hours.
1. Discuss three strategies that can be used to determine the validity of a
selection method.
2. Distinguish between internal and external recruitment.
3. What are the factors needed to be considered before the selection
process?
4. Discuss the significance of recruitment in modern business
organisations
5. What are the factors to be considered for effective interview?
2017 September Semester (Sept-Jan) Examination (Group 2- weekday group)
Course- BUAD 814: Personnel Performance Evaluation and Management
INSTRUCTIONS: Answer any three (3) questions
All questions carry equal marks (10 marks) Time allowed: 2 Hours.
1. The overall aim of the selection process is to obtain the number of employees
required to satisfy the human resource needs of the company. Discuss the various
stages involved in the selection process.
2. Discuss any five factors to be considered in formulating a recruitment policy.
3. What you understand by internet recruiting? Explain any 4 advantages and
disadvantages of internal recruiting.
4. What are the factors that influence the choice of a particular selection method?
Discuss them.
5. Discuss the advantage and disadvantages of interviews.
BUAD 816
2017 September Semester (Sept-Jan) Examination (Group 1- weekend group)
Course- BUAD 816: Theory and Administration of Compensation
INSTRUCTIONS: Answer any three (3) questions
All questions carry equal marks (10 marks) Time allowed: 2 Hours.
1. Differentiate between job description and job evaluation.
2. What are the internal factors considered by managers in determining the
compensation to be paid to employees? Discuss any five
3. What are the basis for contingent pay?
4. Equity theory is concerned with the perception that employees should be treated
fairly as compared to each other. Critically discuss this theory
5. What are the benefits of compensation?
2017 September Semester (Sept-Jan) Examination (Group 2- weekday group)
Course- BUAD 816: Theory and Administration of Compensation
INSTRUCTIONS: Answer any three (3) questions
All questions carry equal marks (10 marks) Time allowed: 2 Hours.
1. What are the external factors considered by managers in determining the
compensation to be paid to employees?
2. Identify and describe the alternatives to contingent pay.
3. Explain how expectancy theory is applicable to an organization.
4. It has been identified that there are three (3) different concepts of wages namely;
the minimum wage, the fair wage and the living wage. Discuss these concepts
appropriately.
5. Indirect compensation refers to non-monetary benefits offered to employees in lieu
of the services they provide to the organization, discuss any five.
BUAD 817
2017 September Semester (Sept-Jan) Examination (Group 1- weekend group)
Course- BUAD 817: MBA Language
INSTRUCTIONS: Answer any three (3) questions
All questions carry equal marks (10 marks) Time allowed: 2 Hours.
1. What are the channels of communication? Elucidate.
2. Discuss the main forms of barriers to effective communication.
3. Discuss the rules for good communication.
4. Explain types of listening styles.
5. What methods do you think could be used to prevent poor listening among
workers?
2017 September Semester (Sept-Jan) Examination (Group 2- weekday group)
Course- BUAD 817: MBA Language
INSTRUCTIONS: Answer any three (3) questions
All questions carry equal marks (10 marks) Time allowed: 2 Hours.
1. Discuss the characteristics of communication.
2. Explain how some factors of the environment could be barrier to
communication.
3. Why communication is central to managing
4. Discuss how effective listening could be beneficial to organisations
5. List and explain the forms of non-verbal communication you know.
BUAD 818
2017 September Semester (Sept-Jan) Examination (Group 1- weekend group)
Course- BUAD 818: Product Development and Pricing Policy
INSTRUCTIONS: Answer any three (3) questions
All questions carry equal marks (10 marks) Time allowed: 2 Hours.
1. Discuss the four categories of customer specified products
2. Why is product management essential?
3. What challenges does a company face in developing new products and
services?
4. Explain the reasons why new products fail in the market?
5. When a company’s product enters the decline stage, the company has to take
concrete steps to replace them. Explain two of the concrete steps?
2017 September Semester (Sept-Jan) Examination (Group 2- weekday group)
Course- BUAD 818: Product Development and Pricing Policy
INSTRUCTIONS: Answer any three (3) questions
All questions carry equal marks (10 marks) Time allowed: 2 Hours.
1. Discuss the top five traits of project management
2. How can a company build and manage its product mix and product lines?
3. Discuss why product positioning is important to an organisation.
4. What is the process involved in the development of a new product?
5. Discuss the processes involved in the development of new products
BUAD 819
2017 September Semester (Sept-Jan) Examination (Group 1- weekend group)
Course- BUAD 819: Management and Organizational Behavior
INSTRUCTIONS: Answer any three (3) questions
All questions carry equal marks (10 marks) Time allowed: 2 Hours.
1. Explain the three fundamental ways of managing ability in an Organisation
2. Discuss the traits that are relevant to human behaviour in an organisation.
3. What are those factors that affect behaviour?
4. Explain any three theories of job satisfaction
5. Identify and discuss the two distinct types of organisational commitment.
2017 September Semester (Sept-Jan) Examination (Group 2- weekday group)
Course- BUAD 819: Management and Organizational Behaviour
INSTRUCTIONS: Answer any three (3) questions
All questions carry equal marks (10 marks) Time allowed: 2 Hours.
1. What do you understand by work values? What are the types of work values?
2. Explain the key elements of motivation
3. What is job satisfaction? What are the determinants of job satisfaction?
4. What is the effect of job satisfaction on employee performance?
5. Discuss various factors that influence motivation.
BUAD 820
2017 September Semester (Sept-Jan) Examination (Group 1- weekend group)
Course- BUAD 820: Consumer Behaviour
INSTRUCTIONS: Answer any three (3) questions
All questions carry equal marks (10 marks) Time allowed: 2 Hours.
1. Discuss the related disciplines of consumer behaviour.
2. What are the psychological issues that are inherent in consumer
behaviour?
3. Discuss any five elements of culture and how they affect consumer
buying behaviour.
4. Explain the sociological issues in consumer behaviour.
5. Differentiate between Drive, Self-concept and Hedonism.
2017 September Semester (Sept-Jan) Examination (Group 2- weekday group)
Course- BUAD 820: Consumer Behaviour
INSTRUCTIONS: Answer any three (3) questions
All questions carry equal marks (10 marks) Time allowed: 2 Hours.
1. Discuss the effect of perception towards buying behaviour.
2. What is the impact of psychological factors in consumer behaviour?
3. How does motivation and perception influence consumer behavior?
4. Explain the attitude change in consumer behavior.
5. There is a greater risk attached in making purchase in the case of
inexperienced buyer. Explain these category of risks.
BUAD 821
2017 September Semester (Sept-Jan) Examination (Group 1- weekend group)
Course- BUAD 821 Business Ethics and Corporate Governance
INSTRUCTIONS: Answer any three (3) questions
All questions carry equal marks (10 marks) Time allowed: 2 Hours.
1. What are the reasons for studying business ethics?
2. Discuss the threat to effective corporate governance
3. Differentiate between descriptive and normative ethics
4. Who are the parties to corporate governance? Discuss any five
5. Corporate governance promotes the commercial life and profitability of a
firm. Do you agree? discuss
2017 September Semester (Sept-Jan) Examination (Group 2- weekday group)
Course- BUAD 821: Business Ethics and Corporate Governance
INSTRUCTIONS: Answer any three (3) questions
All questions carry equal marks (10 marks) Time allowed: 2 Hours.
1. Identify and discuss the important feature of business ethics
2. Discuss the broad classification of ethical theories
3. What are the responsibilities of members of the board? Discuss any five
4. Discuss the significance of corporate governance
5. What is performance dimension?
BUAD 822
September Semester (Sept-Jan) Examination (Group 1- weekend group)
Course- BUAD 822: MIS/ICT Management
INSTRUCTIONS: Answer any three (3) questions
All questions carry equal marks (10 marks) Time allowed: 2 Hours.
1. What are the components of database application system?
2. Identify and discuss the challenges associated with systems development.
3. How can organisations effectively handle the challenges of managing the IT
infrastructure?
4. Explain the techniques for disaster preparedness under MIS.
5. Discuss four alternative development methodologies in systems development.
BUAD 834 - BUAD 847 PAST QUESTIONS
By: Otukoya Hassan Ibrahim
Date: Tuesday, July 24, 2018 11:44 AM
Target Audience:
BUAD 834
2017 September Semester (Sept-Jan) Examination (Group 1- weekend group)
Course- BUAD 834: Purchasing and Supply Chain Management
INSTRUCTIONS: Answer any three (3) questions
All questions carry equal marks (10 marks) Time allowed: 2 Hours.
1. Discuss the purchasing procedures you know.
2. Describe the dimensions of quality management.
3. Identify and explain the major sub-systems in Supplies Management Information
System.
4. Explain the importance of Suppliers quality Management.
5. Discuss the subsystems of suppliers management information system.
2017 September Semester (Sept-Jan) Examination (Group 2- weekday group)
Course- BUAD 834: Purchasing and Supply Chain Management
INSTRUCTIONS: Answer any three (3) questions
All questions carry equal marks (10 marks) Time allowed: 2 Hours.
1. What are the methods of purchasing?
2. Explain how information system aids order processing.
3. Describe 5 different types of TQM techniques.
4. With the aid of practical examples, explain how information systems has helped in
facilitating supply chain management.
5. Why do you think there should be the need for quality management?
BUAD 835
2017 September Semester (Sept-Jan) Examination (Group 1- weekend group)
Course- BUAD 835: Relationship Marketing
INSTRUCTIONS: Answer any three (3) questions
All questions carry equal marks (10 marks) Time allowed: 2 Hours.
1. Explain the objectives of relationship marketing.
2. What are the areas of criticism in relationship marketing?
3. Discuss extensively the situation that gave rise to the evolution of relationship
marketing.
4. Discuss the theories of relationship marketing.
5. Relationship marketing enhances meeting customer’s requirement more closely.
Elucidate.
2017 September Semester (Sept-Jan) Examination (Group 2- weekday group)
Course- BUAD 835: Relationship Marketing
INSTRUCTIONS: Answer any three (3) questions
All questions carry equal marks (10 marks) Time allowed: 2 Hours.
1. Discuss the requirements of relationship marketing.
2. Relationship marketing refers to "All marketing activities directed towards
establishing, developing, and to maintain a successful relational exchanges".
Elucidate.
3. What is relationship marketing? How does it differ from other forms of marketing?
4. What are the benefits to a customer in remaining loyal to an organisation or
brand over time?
5. Loyal customers do not only provide a solid base for the organisation, they
may represent growth potentials too. Discuss.
BUAD 836
2017 September Semester (Sept-Jan) Examination (Group 1- weekend group)
Course- BUAD 836: Business Policy and Strategy
INSTRUCTIONS: Answer any three (3) questions
All questions carry equal marks (10 marks) Time allowed: 2 Hours.
1. What is strategic decision making?
2. Discuss the three stages of strategic management process
3. Explain any three methods of assessing and analysing external
environment.
4. Discuss five reason why firms need to develop corporate level strategy.
5. Explain any five benefits of strategic management
2017 September Semester (Sept-Jan) Examination (Group 2- weekday group)
Course- BUAD 836: Business Policy and Strategy
INSTRUCTIONS: Answer any three (3) questions
All questions carry equal marks (10 marks) Time allowed: 2 Hours.
1. Discuss the strategic management decision process.
2. Describe five important characteristics of business environment
3. Discuss any five benefits of having a clear mission statement.
4. What are the stages of strategic management process?
5. What are the characteristics of corporate level strategy? Discuss any
five
BUAD 838
2017 September Semester (Sept-Jan) Examination (Group 1- weekend group)
Course- BUAD 838: Industrial Marketing
INSTRUCTIONS: Answer any three (3) questions
All questions carry equal marks (10 marks) Time allowed: 2 Hours.
1. Industrial customers are classified into four groups, Discuss.
2. Explain how industrial buying behavior is different from consumer buying
behaviour?
3. What are the objectives of the purchasing function?
4. Discuss the key members in a buying organisation.
5. " Modern Purchasing Activities are some contemporary purchasing
activities which are used in industrial buying processes" Discuss.
2017 September Semester (Sept-Jan) Examination (Group 2- weekday group)
Course- BUAD 838 Industrial Marketing
INSTRUCTIONS: Answer any three (3) questions
All questions carry equal marks (10 marks) Time allowed: 2 Hours.
1. The industrial products and services are classified into three broad groups discuss.
2. In 1967, Robinson Faris and Wind developed a process “buy phases” which
explained eight steps in buying-decision process in an industrial market.
Discuss.
3. What are the various stages involved in channel design process?
4. Explain the three common types of buying situations.
5. There are various factors that affect the distribution of industrial goods,
elucidate.
BUAD 839
2017 September Semester (Sept-Jan) Examination (Group 1- weekend group)
Course- BUAD 839: Managerial Finance
INSTRUCTIONS: Answer any three (3) questions
All questions carry equal marks (10 marks) Time allowed: 2 Hours.
1. Discuss the role of managerial finance?
2. Who are the key players in the financial market? Discuss
3. What do you understand by financial statement? Explain any four uses of financial
statement
4. Discuss any five limitations of Ratio Analysis
5. Suppose Mrs Igho made an investment of the sum of N1,000, 000 into a savings
deposit account that pays 10% interest compounded annually. How much will her
investment amount to at the end of the third year?
2017 September Semester (Sept-Jan) Examination (Group 2- weekday group)
Course- BUAD 839: Managerial Finance
INSTRUCTIONS: Answer any three (3) questions
All questions carry equal marks (10 marks) Time allowed: 2 Hours.
1. Explain five functions of a financial manager
2. Discuss any five the regulatory institutions and their functions
3. Explain the relevance of ratio analysis in Financial Planning
4. If an employee of Yamal Inter Business Systems Ltd expects to receive N500, 000
as his retirement benefits 2 years from now, and if the prevailing rate of interest is
10%. What is the present value of the N500, 000 to be received by the employee
two years to come?
5. Discuss the business and economic environment of the firm.
BUAD 841
2017 September Semester (Sept-Jan) Examination (Group 1- weekend group)
Course- BUAD 841: Advanced Organizational Behaviour
INSTRUCTIONS: Answer any three (3) questions
All questions carry equal marks (10 marks) Time allowed: 2 Hours.
1. Discuss the seven characteristics of organisational culture.
2. Describe the relationship between communication and conflict.
3. Explain any five important characteristics of an effective communication in an
organisation.
4. What are the three elements of decision?
5. Explain the factors that affect group cohesion.
2017 September Semester (Sept-Jan) Examination (Group 2- weekday group)
Course- BUAD 841: Advanced Organizational Behaviour
INSTRUCTIONS: Answer any three (3) questions
All questions carry equal marks (10 marks) Time allowed: 2 Hours.
1. Discuss the role of organisational culture in shaping employees attitudes.
2. Discuss the factors that motivate employees to perform in an organisation.
3. Discuss the reasons for decision making in an organisation.
4. List and explain the factors that affect communication within an organisation.
5. What is the relationship between organisational culture and attitudes?
BUAD 843
2017 September Semester (Sept-Jan) Examination (Group 1- weekend group)
Course- BUAD 843: Managerial Problem Solving
INSTRUCTIONS: Answer any three (3) questions
All questions carry equal marks (10 marks) Time allowed: 2 Hours.
1. Discuss the characteristics of decision making.
2. Describe the approaches to creativity ?
3. What is creative problems solving? What are the steps in creative problems solving?
4. What are the challenges of creative thought?
5. Discuss the strategies in analysing a problem.
2017 September Semester (Sept-Jan) Examination (Group 2- weekday group)
Course- BUAD 843: Managerial Problem Solving
INSTRUCTIONS: Answer any three (3) questions
All questions carry equal marks (10 marks) Time allowed: 2 Hours.
1. Discuss the difference between analytical problems solving and creative problems
solving.
2. What are the limitation of analytical problems solving model?
3. Explain the three components of creativity?
4. What is a conceptual block? What are the four types of conceptual block?
5. Discuss the characteristics of critical thinking.
BUAD 845
2017 September Semester (Sept-Jan) Examination (Group 1- weekend group)
Course- BUAD 845: Portfolio Theory and Capital Market Analysis
INSTRUCTIONS: Answer any three (3) questions
All questions carry equal marks (10 marks) Time allowed: 2 Hours.
1. Differentiate between capital market and money market securities
2. Critically discuss the types of risks associated with an investment
3. Two companies A & B whose returns and associated probabilities are as follows:
COMPANY A COMPANY B
R P R P
6 0.10 4 0.10
7 0.25 6 0.20
8 0.30 8 0.40
9 0.25 10 0.20
10 0.10 12 0.10
If (r) represents the required rate of return from each investment and (p) is the
associated probability of a given return occurring, what is the estimated level of
risk for the two companies A& B?
4. Discuss any five characteristics of an investment
5. The returns on securities A and B with associated probabilities are given below:
Probability Return A Return B
N' 000 N' 000
0.5 4 0
0.4 2 3
0.1 0 3
Select the security of your choice on the basis of risk return trade- off, which of the
securities has the higher return?
BUAD 847
2017 September Semester (Sept-Jan) Examination (Group 1- weekend group)
Course- BUAD 847: Management of Financial Institutions
INSTRUCTIONS: Answer any three (3) questions
All questions carry equal marks (10 marks) Time allowed: 2 Hours.
1. Explain five (5) reasons why we need an efficient and highly developed financial
system.
2. Discuss the steps taken by Central bank of Nigeria to support banks in their
recovery efforts.
3. Distinguish between Commercial banks and other financial institutions.
4. Identify and explain the institution s that make up the Nigeria financial system.
5. Insurance is not meant to prevent risk but to indemnify the losses arising from a
certain risk. Explain any five functions of insurance.
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