XAT 2017 — Decision Making Question 17
Analyse the following caselet and answer the question that follows:
A University coach was asked to select teams in three sports: Shooting, Cricket (batsmen only) and “Snakes & Ladder”. The honest and keen observer head boy of the school informed the coach that he had observed 100 students playing the three games – shooting, cricket and “Snakes & Ladder”. In shooting, all students were given 100 chances to hit a target. In cricket, a batsman faced a maximum of 100 balls, provided he DID NOT GET OUT. In “Snakes & Ladder”, every student could play 100 matches, one each with the other students and one against a computer. In shooting, a player got one point for hitting the target and zero point for missing the target. In cricket, a batsman got one point for hitting the ball and zero point for missing it. In “Snakes & Ladder”, a person got one point for winning the game and zero for losing. To the coach’s utter surprise, the distribution of points across all three games was the same. It was as follows:
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The coach has to select a team of eleven in each sport.
Analyse the following caselet and answer the question that follows:
As a newly started organization in the IT sector, Saksha IT is a fast growing 400 employee organization. Its head, Saksha Kumar believes in building an organization driven by humility. Which of the following policies would best help him achieve that?
Answer & solution
- A
Employees shall, in their annual evaluation form, be asked to acknowledge three of their shortcomings, overcoming which will make them better.
- B
Employees shall be asked to share with their peers three shortcomings they had noticed about their peers.
- C
The immediate superiors would suggest three shortcomings their subordinates have to work on in a given period.
Everyone beginning with Saksha, shall be asked to share three of their weaknesses, in a public forum.
- E
Employees shall be asked to overcome three shortcomings in the following year. Improvement, if noticed would attract rewards.
Humility is the quality of not being proud of being perfect as you are aware of your limitations. If the head of the organization believes in building an organization driven by humility, then he should also come forward with his own weaknesses in order to encourage others to do the same. Thus, only option 4 follows this.
Hence, the correct answer is option 4.