The attainment of individual and organisational goals is mutually interdependent and linked by a common denominator - employee work motivation. Organisational members are motivated to satisfy their personal goals, and they contribute their efforts to the attainment of organisational objectives as means of achieving these personal goals.
The passage best supports the statement that motivation -
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A. encourages an individual to give priority to personal goals over organisational goals.
B. is crucial for the survival of an individual and organisation.
C. is the product of an individual's physical and mental energy.
D. is the external force which induces an individual to contribute his efforts.
E. makes organisation and society inseparable.
Correct Answer
encourages an individual to give priority to personal goals over organisational goals.
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1. Statement: Duty free technology parks where foreign firms can manufacture electronic hardware components are proposed to be established at various places in the country.
Courses of Action:
Government should immediately implement the proposal to augment the foreign currency reserve by exporting the products.
Government should not implement the proposal as it will hinder indigenous production of hardware components.
The step discussed in the statement would surely give a boost to hardware industry and help our country to stand apart in this field. Thus, only I follows.
2. Statement: The cinema halls are incurring heavy losses these days as people prefer to watch movies in home on TV than to visit cinema halls.
Courses of Action:
The cinema halls should be demolished and residential multi-storey buildings should be constructed there.
The cinema halls should be converted into shopping malls.
Doing away with cinema halls is no solution. Hence, none of the courses follows. Instead, certain incentives and promotional schemes should be awarded to cinema hall owners so that they could manage to draw in crowds.
3. Statement: Financial stringency prevented the State Government from paying salaries to its employees since April this year.
Courses of Action:
The State Government should immediately curtail the staff strength at least by 30%.
The State Government should reduce wasteful expenditure and arrange to pay the salaries of its employees.
Clearly, curtailing of the staff strength will only increase the panic and discontent, and the satisfaction of the employees is a must. So, the Government should arrange for payment of wages. Thus, only course II follows.
4. Statement: The police department has come under a cloud with recent revelations that at least two senior police officials are suspected to have been involved in the illegal sale of a large quantity of weapons from the state police armoury.
Courses of Action:
A thorough investigation should be ordered by the State Government to bring out all those who are involved into the illegal sale of arms.
State police armoury should be kept under Central Government's control.
The situation can be tackled by periodic cuts in supply, and urging people to conserve water. So both the courses follow.
6. Due to enormous profits involved in smuggling, hundreds of persons have been attracted towards this anti-national activity. Some of them became millionaires overnight. India has a vast coastline both on the Eastern and Western Coast. It has been a heaven for smugglers who have been carrying on their activities with great impunity. There is no doubt, that from time to time certain seizures were made by the enforcement authorities, during raids and ambush but even allowing these losses the smugglers made huge profits.
The passage best supports the statement that
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A. smuggling hampers the economic development of a nation.
B. smuggling ought to be curbed.
C. authorities are taking strict measures to curb smuggling.
D. smuggling is fast increasing in our country owing to the quick profit it entails.
Correct Answer: smuggling is fast increasing in our country owing to the quick profit it entails.
7. Though the waste of time or the expenditure on fashions is very large, yet fashions have come to stay. They will not go, come what may. However, what is now required is that strong efforts should be made to displace the excessive craze for fashion from the minds of these youngsters.
The passage best supports the statement that:
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A. fashion is the need of the day.
B. the excessive craze for fashion is detrimental to one's personality.
C. the hoard for fashion should be done away with so as not to let down the constructive development.
D. work and other activities should be valued more than the outward appearance.
Correct Answer: the hoard for fashion should be done away with so as not to let down the constructive development.
8. One of the important humanitarian by-products of technology is the greater dignity and value that it imparts to human labour. In a highly industrialized society, there is no essential difference between Brahmin and Dalit, Muslim and Hindu; they are equally useful and hence equally valuable for in the industrial society individual productivity fixes the size of the pay cheque and this fixes social status.
The passage best supports the statement that:
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A. technology decides individual's social status.
B. castes and religions are man-made.
C. human labour has dignity and value.
D. all individuals, irrespective of caste and creed, are born equal.
Correct Answer: human labour has dignity and value.
9. The future of women in India is quite bright and let us hope that they will justify their abilities by rising to the occasion. Napoleon was right when he declared that by educating the women we can educate the whole nation. Because a country can never rise without the contribution of 50% of their population.
The passage best supports the statement that:
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A. India is striving hard for the emancipation of women.
B. all women should be well educated.
C. a nation can progress only when women are given equal rights and opportunities as men.
D. women ought to be imparted full freedom to prove their worth and contribute to the progress of the nation.
Correct Answer: women ought to be imparted full freedom to prove their worth and contribute to the progress of the nation.
10. The prevention of accidents makes it necessary not only that safety devices be used to guard exposed machinery but also that mechanics be instructed in safety rules which they must follow for their own protection, and that lighting in the plant be adequate.
The passage best supports the statement that industrial accidents -
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A. are always avoidable;
B. may be due to ignorance.
C. cannot be entirely overcome.
D. can be eliminated with the help of safety rules.