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- Question
- You are head of your office. Some media people came to your office and request you to brief them about the pension plan of your office. You will
Options- A. ask the media people to come some another day
- B. immediately accept the offer and brief them
- C. get them turned out of your office
- D. ask them to wait and to consult the officials concerned
- Correct Answer
- ask them to wait and to consult the officials concerned
ExplanationHere, options (a) and (c) are not appropriate as these are not valid on ethical grounds while option (b) is also not valid as you are the head of the office and you have certain important tasks to accomplish.
In this case, option (d) would be the the best course of action as there are certain officials for each work in every office, so one has to consult them, - 1. You are getting late for your college and no bus is available. In such a situation
Options- A. you start walking
- B. you drop the idea of going to college that day and return home
- C. you think about other possible conveyance
- D. you wait patiently for the bus though you are late for the class Discuss
- 2. You are in the middle of an important dinner party when the waiter spills steaming hot soup all over the boss'lap. How would you cope?
Options- A. You panic and start shouting on the waiter
- B. Arrange for the first aid and make arrangements to rush him of her off to the hospital
- C. You dab frantically at the ruined outfit with a napkin while screaming at the waiter
- D. You pour the entire contents of a jug of water over his lap, explaining that your prompt action will prevent burns and then lay out a change of clothes in the guest bedroom and return to the party while the boss changes Discuss
- 3. You are in a bus. The bus reaches your stop but still you have not purchased the ticket because of heavy rush. What will you do?
Options- A. Jump out quickly to avoid embarrassment
- B. Call the conductor give him the money and get the ticket
- C. Hand the money to someone sitting nearby to give it to the conductor
- D. Give the money to the driver Discuss
- 4. Your colleague is not performing his duties upto the mark. You will
Options- A. just do your part of the duties and enjoy your work
- B. take advantage of it to promote yourself
- C. report to the seniors
- D. try and handle his customers to maintain the company's status Discuss
- 5. Your classmate, who got you in a fix recently with a teacher, has met with an ancient. You
Options- A. feel the God taught him/her a lesson
- B. carry on with life unaffected
- C. tell others that this is the way one suffers for making others suffer
- D. decide to visit him/her in the hospital Discuss
- 6. You are the manager of the department. You get to know that one of the subordinates is having a problem with his family, since his father is supposed to undergo bypass surgery but at the same time the subordinate is very important for the current project which you have undertaken. The subordinate wants two week's leave. What would you do?
Options- A. Give him your support by assuring him that his duty towards his father is more important
- B. Not empathise with the empoyee's situation and ask him to say
- C. Get an extension for project to be submitted as the employee is very efficient and you cannot trust anyone else
- D. Transfer the work to some other employee of similar caliber Discuss
- 7. You have to accomplish a very important task for your headquarters within the next two days. Suddenly you meet with an accident. Your officer insists that you complete the task. You would
Options- A. ask for an extension of deadline
- B. inform headquarters of your inability to finish on time
- C. suggest alternate person to Headquarters who may do the needful
- D. stay away till you recover Discuss
- 8. You have been asked to give an explanation for not attending an important official meeting. Your immediate boss who has not informed you about the meeting is now putting pressure on you not to place an allegation against him/her. You would
Options- A. send a written reply explaining the fact
- B. seek an appointment with the top boss to explain the situation
- C. admit your fault to save the situation
- D. put the responsibility on the coordinator of the meeting for not informing Discuss
- 9. A person lives in a far off village which is almost two hours by bus. The villager's neighbor is a very powerful landlord who is trying to occupy the poor villager's land by force. You are the District Magistrate and busy in a meeting called by a local minister. The villager has come all the way, by bus and on foot, to see you and give an application seeking protection from the powerful landlord. The villager keeps on waiting outside the meeting hall for an hour. You come out of the meeting and are rushing to another meeting. The villager follows you to submit his application. What would you do?
Options- A. Tell him to wait for another two hours till you come back from your next meeting
- B. Tell him that the matter is actually to be dealt by a junior officer and that he should give the application to him
- C. Call one of your senior subordinate officers and ask him to solve the villager's problem
- D. Quickly take the application from him, ask him a few relevant questions regarding his problem and then proceed to the meeting Discuss
- 10. You have a pharmaceutical company. You have received information that someone who is not an employee has tampered with a certain type of tablets in a specific area, which has caused some deaths in that area. In this type of crisis, what will you do?
Options- A. This incident can have a negative effect on your company's reputation and earnings and can lead to loss. In order to avoid this you don't launch a campaign to alert the people
- B. Launch a campaign to alert the public and recall tablets from the specific area
- C. Recall tablets from only the specific area and not the whole country
- D. Recall those tablets from the entire country despite the fact that the tampering of tablets occurred in a certain area Discuss
Situation Reaction Test problems
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Correct Answer: you think about other possible conveyance
Explanation:
As you are getting late for the college and no bus is available. In that situation you must have go for other possible conveyance, so as to reach the college at time other option are not the solution to this problem.
Correct Answer: You pour the entire contents of a jug of water over his lap, explaining that your prompt action will prevent burns and then lay out a change of clothes in the guest bedroom and return to the party while the boss changes
Explanation:
In the given situation, pouring water over your boss lap is required as it will prevent burns. Also, the dinner party is equally important, you can arrange changing of clothes for your boss and return to the party.
Correct Answer: Call the conductor give him the money and get the ticket
Explanation:
As you have travelled in the bus but was unable to purchases the ticket during the journey due to heavy rush, you must give the money to the conductor and get the ticket before leaving the bus.
Correct Answer: try and handle his customers to maintain the company's status
Explanation:
In the given situation as a committed employee, you have to try and handle your colleague customers to maintain the company's status.
Correct Answer: decide to visit him/her in the hospital
Explanation:
In the given situation, you must have to show humanity but not revenge here on moral ground. So, here the best action is to visit him/her in the hospital.
Correct Answer: Transfer the work to some other employee of similar caliber
Explanation:
As both completion of your project and your subordinate attending to his father are important. So, you must transfer your subordinate work to some other employee of similar caliber.
Correct Answer: inform headquarters of your inability to finish on time
Explanation:
Informing headquarters of your inability to finish the work on time, explaining the reason is the best action. So, answer is option (b).
Correct Answer: send a written reply explaining the fact
Explanation:
As you have been asked to give an explanation, so it is the best way to give a written reply explaining the fact. Hence, answer is option (a)
Correct Answer: Quickly take the application from him, ask him a few relevant questions regarding his problem and then proceed to the meeting
Explanation:
Here, we have two objectives to achieve at the same time.
Firstly, we have to help the villager who has come from far off. Secondly, we have to reach the second meeting on time. Option (d) allows us to achieve both.
Option (c) also achieves the same objectives though it means that the villager will have to wait for a little more time.
Option (a) and (b) are wrong as, they will increase the troubles of the villager who might not be able to wait longer.
Correct Answer: Launch a campaign to alert the public and recall tablets from the specific area
Explanation:
In this crisis situation, you must take an authoritative step to launch a campaign to alert the public and also you have to recall the tablets that specific area.
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