Connector & Transition Logic — CAT Previous-Year Questions

Each of the questions below consists of a set of labelled sentences. These sentences, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Choose the most logical order of sentences from the options.

1. Events intervened, and in the late 1930s and 1940s, Germany suffered from "over-branding".
2. The British used to be fascinated by the home of Romanticism.
3. But reunification and the federal government's move to Berlin have prompted Germany to think again about its image.
4. The first foreign package holiday was a tour of Germany organized by Thomas Cook in 1855.
5. Since then, Germany has been understandably nervous about promoting itself abroad.

Directions: Sentences given in each question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labelled with a letter. Choose the most logical order of the sentences from among the four given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.

1. In rejecting the functionalism in positivist organization theory, either wholly or partially, there is often a move towards a political model of organization theory.
2. Thus, the analysis would shift to the power resources possessed by different groups in the organization and the way they use these resources in actual power plays to shape the organizational structure.
3. At the extreme, in one set of writings, the growth of administrators in the organization is held to be completely unrelated to the work to be done and to be caused totally by the political pursuit of self-interest.
4. The political model holds that individual interests are pursued in organizational life through the exercise of power and influence.

A. However, the real challenge today is in unlearning, which is much harder.
B. But the new world of business behaves differently from the world in which we grew up.
C. Learning is important for both people and organisations.
D. Each of us has a 'mental model' that we've used over the years to make sense.