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INTEGRATED MANAGEMENT (STAGE-4)
INSTITUTE OF COST AND MANAGEMENT
ACCOUNTANTS OF PAKISTAN
VISION
To be the Preference in Value Optimization for Business.
MISSION STATEMENT
To develop strategic leaders through imparting quality education
and training inManagement Accounting, to continually set and
upgrade professional standards and to
conduct research, bringing value-addition to the economy.
Assignment Questions (Spring-2011 Session)
Integrated Management
Stage 4INSTRUCTIONS:
1. A student who takes admission in Correspondence Course shall
be required to complete allassignments of his respective group
subjects within the same session, i.e. May Novemberor November May,
he/she is enrolled. If he/she fails to complete 100% assignments
withinthat session, he/she shall be required to re-enrol
himself/herself in the next session aftermaking payment of 100%
correspondence course fee.
2. Each assignment is allocated a total of 100 marks.
3. The student must obtain 50% marks in each assignment and if
he fails to obtain the saidpercentage of marks, he/she has to
re-write and resubmit the assignment within one week,otherwise
he/she will not be eligible to appear in the examination.
4. 100% assignments of all subjects must be submitted in the
session in which the examinationis to be taken. The last date for
submission of 100% assignments for May Examination is 20thMarch and
for November Examination is 20th September. Those students who are
notappearing in the particular examination may, however, submit the
assignments latest by 15thMay and 15th November.
5. You are required to pay Annual Subscription of Rs.700/-
during July December each yearto avoid payment of Restoration Fee
of Rs.1500/-.
6. Examination Fee is payable during March 1 20 for May
Examination and September 1 20for November Examination. Examination
forms can be collected from any ICMAP Centre.
7. Assignments would not be accepted after due date.
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Q. 3. What is Project Management Office, and what are its
functions and role in project management?
Q. 4. Who are Project Stakeholders and how do they influence on
the execution and completion of aproject.
ASSIGNMENT NO. 5
Q. 1. What are the stages involved in project life cycle? Which
activities will be carried out at eachstage?
Q. 2. What is meant by project management plan? What are its
essential elements?
Q. 3. Discuss the areas, which should be assessed during the
feasibility study of a project.
Q. 4. Discuss the SWOT analysis in the context of strategic
management.
ASSIGNMENT NO. 6
Q. 1.(a) What are the advantages of using Project Management
Software?(b) Describe the framework for project management with
special reference to Maylors 7s Model?
Q. 2.(a) What areas of performance a project team must emphasize
upon to enhance its capabilities.(b) Do you think that conflict
(difference of opinion) within a project team has positive effect?
Give
you views?
Q. 3.(a) Discuss with example what is Work Breakdown Structure
(WBS)? How does WBS difference
from the project network?
(b) Why is critical Path / Network analysis criticized? Describe
any four reasons.
Q. 4. Describe the major components of risk management
process.
ASSIGNMENT NO. 7
Q. 1.(a) What do we mean by informal organizational structure?
Why is it important?(b) Under what conditions would a matrix
structure be most suitable? What are its advantages
and disadvantages?
Q. 2. What do you understand by leadership? Discuss Fiedlers
contingency model of leadershipeffectiveness?
Q. 3. What are the basic differences between systematic and
informal appraisal? What are the fourbasic appraisal
approaches?
Q. 4. What is the difference between training and
development?
ASSIGNMENT NO. 8
Q. 1. Discuss the levels of management and types of skill
required by different levels of managementexplain with the help of
diagram.
Q. 2. What are the basis of power? Give one example of a
managers exercise of each type of power?
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Q. 3. What are the two major views of authority? How do you
think each view would affect a managersattitude and behavior
towards employees?
Q. 4. What is the difference between line positions and staff
positions?
ASSIGNMENT NO. 9
Q. 1. Do you agree with the assertion that Political behavior is
inevitable in organizational settings?Justify you answer.
Q. 2. How many basic external stakeholders are? Discuss each in
detail?
Q. 3. Discuss the composition of different layers of external
environment?
Q. 4.(a) Define a team. What are two basic approaches to the
organization of teamwork?
(b) Identify and explain the four stages of development of the
team as identified by the Tuckman.
ASSIGNMENT NO. 10
Q. 1. What are the hierarchies of strategic and operational
plans at a multi business organization?Explain with the help of the
flow chart.
Q. 2. What are the ways that competitive advantage can be gained
at the corporate level.
Q. 3. What is project management process, and what are project
management process groups requiredfor any project.
Q. 4.(a) How do control systems reinforce strategy?(b) How
corporate portfolio is approached? What role does Boston Consulting
Group (BCG)
matrix play in designing the corporate portfolio?
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