Q: It is up to our government and planners to devise ways and means for the mobilisation of
about ten crore workers whose families total up about forty crore men, women and children.
Our agriculture is over-manned. A lesser number of agriculturists would mean more
purchasing or spending power to every agriculturist. This will result in the shortage of manpower for many commodities to be produced for which there will be a new demand from a
prosperous agrarian class. This shortage will be removed by surplus man-power released from
agriculture as suggested above.
The passage best supports the statement that:
A. employment in production is more fruitful than employment in agriculture.
B. Indian economy is in a poor shape basically due to improper mobilisation of manpower.
C. a shift of labour from agricultural sector to the industrial sector would uplift the
living standard.
D. the industrial sector is labour-deficient while the agricultural sector is over-manned
in our country.
Solution:
Q: Satisfaction with co-workers, promotion opportunities, the nature of work, and pay goes with
high performance among those with strong growth needs. Among those with weak growth
needs, no such relationship is present - and, in fact, satisfaction with promotion opportunities
goes with low performance.
This passage best supports the statement that:
A. satisfaction is an inevitable organisational variable.
B. job satisfaction and performance are directly and closely related.
C. relationship between job satisfaction and performance is moderated by growth
need.
D. every organisation has few employees having weak growth need.
Solution:
Q: The press should not be afraid of upholding and supporting a just and righteous cause. It
should not be afraid of criticising the government in a healthy manner. The press has to be
eternally vigilant to protect the rights of the workers, backward and suppressed sections of the
society. It should also give a balanced view of the things so that people can be helped in the
formation of a healthy public opinion.
The passage best supports the statement that
A. press has a great role to play in a democracy.
B. the press is the only means to project to the masses the policies of the government.
C. the freedom of press is essential for the proper functioning of democracy.
D. the press can be used by the governments as an effective media for the upliftment
of the backward sections of society.
Solution:
Q: There is a shift in our economy from a manufacturing to a service orientation. The increase in
service-sector will require the managers to work more with people rather than with objects
and things from the assembly line.
This passage best supports the statement that:
A. managers should have a balanced mind.
B. assembly line will exist in service organisations.
C. interpersonal skills will become more important in the future work place.
D. manufacturing organisations ignore importance of people.
Solution:
Q: The virtue of art does not allow the work to be interfered with or immediately ruled by
anything other than itself. It insists that it alone shall touch the work in order to bring it into
being. Art requires that nothing shall attain the work except through art itself.
This passage best supports the statement that:
A. art is governed by external rules and conditions.
B. art is for the sake of art and life.
C. art is for the sake of art alone.
D. artist realises his dreams through his artistic creation.