MS-02: Managing Men Dec-1998
Questing Paper of MS-02: Managing Men Dec-1998
Q.1 Sweta Switch Company produces two products P( and P, that are produced and sold on a weekly basis. The weekly production cannot exceed 25 for product P] and 35 for product P2 because oflimited available facilities. The company employs a total of 60 workers. Product P( requires 2 man-weeks of labour whereas P2 requires only one Profit margin on P] is Rs. 60 and on P, is Rs. 40. Formulate it as a LP problem and solve it graphically.
Q.2 Consider the network given below:
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(a) Compute the Earliest Start (ES), Earl iest Finish (EF), Latest Start (LS) i Latest Finish (LF) values for each of the activities.
(b) Determine the critical path. Is it unique?
© What is the expected duration of the project?
Q.3 How does computerised personnel information system help in managing human resource more efficiently? Answer briefly with the consideration of subsystems like recruitment, placement, training & development, compensation and maintenance.
Q.4 Define the term data and information giving suitable examples. What impact would
(i) the technological revolution
(ii) research and development
(iii) product changes and
(iv) the information explosions have on the need for information by the management of a commercial vehicle manufacturing company?
Q.5 Write short notes on any three ofthe following:
(a) Spreadsheet software application
(b) System life cycle
© Use of computers in inventory control
(d) Integrated software
(e) Models in operations research
Q.6 Read the following case and answer the questions given at the end.
It is not that Datatech did not own and make extensive use of computers. Its staff had about 200 desktop computers of all ages in its eight field offices, while the headquarters had its own computers as well. The staff man customer details, invoice, job assignment and inventory systems, among others; on these computers. The lack of a unified computer system in such an expanding company created other problems as well. Employees often worked 12 hours per day just to keep up with their growing business. One major problem was still obvious. Data stored in computers around the country were isolated because these computers were not connected. The way the company handled this problem was to have each office send their data on floppy diskettes to other offices overnight by courier service. Meanwhile the company continued to grow and the efficiency began to disappear. Today Datatech is finally, the process of building a new computer system at a cost of about $1 million. The company clearly can afford them because its revenues are still growing at 20 percent per year. Elements of the new computer include a minicomputer in company headquarters, networks to connect all the computers within each office, and the network to connect the eight field offices to each other and to headquarters. The company has even more plans for the near future including teleconferencing, company-wide electronic messaging, and even a service that enables customers to leave detailed messages about their problems in the Datatech computers and to schedule their own customer service calls.
Questions
(a) How important are information systems in solving the problems of companies like Datatech?
(b) Do you approve Datatech’s move towards computerization? Justify your answer.