Management

UPSC Management 2023

All 16 questions from the 2023 Civil Services Mains Management paper across 2 papers — 800 marks in total. Each question comes with a detailed evaluation rubric, directive word analysis, and model answer points.

16Questions
800Total marks
2Papers
2023Exam year

Paper I

8 questions · 400 marks
Q1
50M Compulsory explain Organization structure, power, conflict, workers' education, collective bargaining

(a) "Span of management plays important role in deciding organization structure." Explain. (10 marks) (b) "Dependency is increased when the resource you control is important, scar…

Q2
50M explain Strategic planning, virtual organization, career management

(a) How do mission, vision and values help in developing good plan for an organization? Explain planning premises. (20 marks) (b) Outline the organizational structure of a virtual…

Q3
50M explain Organizational behavior, delegation, recruitment

(a) "A person can have thousands of attitudes but organizational behaviour focuses its attention on a very limited number of job-related attitudes." Explain the different job-rela…

Q4
50M highlight HRIS, learning organization, entrepreneurship

(a) Highlight the key differences between human resource information system, human resource analytics and enterprise resource planning, and give their suitable applications. Illus…

Q5
50M Compulsory discuss Finance function, accounting standards, EASE reforms, marketing strategy, customer satisfaction

(a) Discuss on the objectives and categories of decisions of the finance function in an organization. (10 marks) (b) Elaborate on the objective of 'Accounting Standards' and discu…

Q6
50M calculate DuPont analysis, capital structure, marketing channels

(a) Given below is the data of two firms in the same industry: | Particulars | Firm A (₹) | Firm B (₹) | |-------------|-----------|-----------| | Net Profit | 25,000 | 10,000 | |…

Q7
50M calculate Capital structure valuation, cash flow, pricing strategy

(a) A Ltd's EBIT is ₹ 10,00,000. The company has 12%, ₹ 30 lakhs debentures. The equity capitalization rate, i.e., Kₑ is 20%. Compute the following: (i) Market value of equity and…

Q8
50M calculate Process costing, portfolio management, non-profit marketing

(a) During a month, 4500 units were introduced into process A. The normal loss was estimated at 8% on input. At the end of the month, 2600 units had been produced and transferred…

Paper II

8 questions · 400 marks
Q1
50M Compulsory state Index numbers, IRM, world class manufacturing, Chi-Square test, value analysis

(a) State the chief characteristics of Index Numbers. (10 marks) (b) What do you mean by Information Resource Management ? State its features. (10 marks) (c) State the attributes…

Q2
50M solve Chi-Square test, t-test, linear programming problem

(a) The following table gives the production in three shifts and the corresponding number of defective goods that turned out in three weeks. Test at 5% level of significance wheth…

Q3
50M state Operations management and decision making

(a) State the different forms of waste management. 15 marks (b) State the various factors affecting plant location. 15 marks (c) An automobile company has additional capacity that…

Q4
50M discuss Information systems and e-Governance

(a) (i) Define e-Governance. (ii) State the advantages of e-Governance. (iii) State the e-Governance initiatives. 5+5+5=15 marks (b) (i) Define DSS. (ii) State the main characteri…

Q5
50M Compulsory examine Privatisation, regional development, AI, IMF, strategy implementation

(a) Examine the impact of privatisation of PSUs on the economic development of India. 10 (b) "A country can truly progress, if there is balanced regional development." Comment on…

Q6
50M critically examine Corporate governance, PDS, consumer protection, environment, cyber security, SSI

(a) (i) "The role of Board of Directors is to govern and not to manage." Comment on the statement and bring out the elements of Corporate Governance by citing examples. 5 (ii) How…

Q7
50M discuss Strategic Management and Competitive Advantage

(a) (i) How do companies scan the environment and analyse the same to reset the objectives and formulate strategies ? Explain. 5 marks (ii) Under what considerations might it be p…

Q8
50M examine International Business and Regional Economic Cooperation

(a) (i) "Regional Economic Cooperation can play an important role in India's unfavourable Balance of Trade." Comment. 5 marks (ii) Examine the role of dispute settlement mechanism…

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