North Campus

Midterm Exam (Hourly-2) Spring - 2021

Subject: Human Resource Management Submission Date: 28th April (3:15 to 5:15 pm)
Instructor: Bushra Shahzad Khan Submission Duration: 2 Hours
Program: MBA Max. Marks: 10

Department of Business Administration

Please follow the instructions carefully:

1. Write your answers in a Word file and upload the file before the due time on BlackBoard.

2. Write your name and registration ID on the first page of your Word file.

3. Answer scripts can be uploaded on BlackBoard within or before its deadline.

Therefore, do not wait for the last hour to avoid any unforeseen problems.

4. Submission of answer copy(ies) will be considered acceptable through BlackBoard

only. Therefore, do not submit your document through email or any other medium.

5. Use 12 pt. font size and Times New Roman font style along with 1-inch page margins.

6. Follow the requirements of the word limit and the marking criteria while writing your
answers.

7. Provide relevant, original and conceptual answers, as this exam aims to test your ability to
examine, explain, modify or develop concepts discussed in class.

8. Do not copy answers from the internet or other sources. The plagiarism of your answers
may be checked through Turnitin.

9. Recheck your answers before the submission on BlackBoard to correct any content or
language related errors.

10. Double check your word file before uploading it on BlackBoard to ensure that you have
uploaded the correct file with your answers.
Q1: Case Study (10 marks)

ICT Valley Inc. of Faisalabad, is a fast-growing software company, and provides software
solutions to firms for improving sales and performance. Many of its approaches to business
practice are unusual, but in ICT Valley’s fast-changing and highly competitive environment, they
seem to work.

There is no dress code and employees make their own hours, often very long. They tend to
socialize together (the average age is 26), both in the office’s well-stocked cafetaria and on
company-sponsored events and recreational trips. Responsibility is heavy and comes early, with
a “just do it now” attitude. New recruits get a few weeks of intensive training, described by
participants as “more like boot camp than business school.” New employees are expected to
commit their expertise and vitality to everything they do. Mr. Bashir Samdani, director of
recruiting, admits the intense and unconventional firm is not the employer for everybody.

The firm employs about 700 people. The managers know the rapid growth they seek depends on
having a staff of the best people they can find, quickly trained and given broad responsibility and
freedom as soon as possible. CEO Junaid Warraich says, “At a software company, people are
everything…. Of course, the leaders at every company say, ‘People are everything.’ But they
don’t act on it.”

ICT Valley Inc. makes finding the right people a company-wide mission. Recruiters actively
scour college career fairs and computer science departments for talented overachievers with
ambition and entrepreneurial instincts. Top managers conduct the first rounds of interviews.

One year, ICT Valley Inc. reviewed 15,000 résumés, conducted 4,000 on campus interviews,
flew 850 prospects in for interviews, and hired 262 college graduates. The cost per hire was Rs.
15,000; CEO believes it was worth every penny.

Questions

 Identify some of the established recruiting techniques that apparently cause ICT Valley
Inc. unconventional approach to attracting talent. (3 marks)
 Would ICT Valley Inc. be an appealing employer for you? Why? If not, what would it
take for you to accept a job offer from ICT Valley Inc.? (3 marks)
 What suggestions would you make to ICT Valley Inc. for improving its recruiting
processes? (4 marks)

Good Luck!