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2. The passage suggests that perceptual fit congruence would be most useful in determining which of the following?
A. whether a company ought to make its policies and goals more transparent
B. whether a company ought to provide sensitivity training for its management
C. whether a company ought to create more opportunities for interaction among workers
D. whether a company ought to address employee grievances more directly
E. whether a company ought to implement a more elaborate orientation program for new employees
carcass MentorTutoring SajjadAhmad lnm87Option E says "whether a company ought to implement a more elaborate orientation program for new employees"
Now if there is more elaborate orientation for new employee, there will be a strong correspondence between the values that an employee perceives his company to have and the values that his co-workers perceive the company to have.
Option E looks better than A.
Kindly help.
Harsh2111sIt's my pleasure that asked, although this is my first
MGMAT passage that too a 700+ level. Also, since Mentortutoring has answered, i don't know if my response is going to be any good.
I'm glad that you asked me about the option E here which was i was able to eliminate so it's easy for me. But I will try to give my thoughts on all questions.
Seeing that 700+ tag from
MGMAT made me get on my toes and i hate to see the tags because they affect my approach and my thought process.
I was torn between two options in every questions. Each I have highlighted and red texts show red flags i.e. they are questionable parts of the option which must be answered clearly.
1. According to the passage, which of the following was a motivation in the creation of the system of value congruence?A) a desire to
minimize the liability of upper management for employee dissatisfaction - first 'liability' jumps out of the option - needs to be checked. Also, to say 'to minimize' is extreme.
B)
a desire to help companies to improve their internal harmony - first paragraph helps in this.
C) a desire to allow employees to
increase their
earning potential - This's one easiest to remove.
D)
a desire to foster awareness of factors influencing managerial success - 'awareness' and 'influencing' are out of scope.
E) a desire to
eliminate discrepancies between a company’s goals and the values of its employees - its extreme to say 'eliminate' and 'discrepancies' is out of scope.
I faulted in this one for the question is an inference and i opted a choice that was more specific in detail that i realised post attempt. Also, to answer this question we need to understand what is P-F, which we can find in the 2nd and 3rd para - more specifically the last line of the 2nd para is helpful.
2. The passage suggests that perceptual fit congruence would be most useful in determining which of the following?A.
whether a company ought to make its policies and goals more transparent - Though 'transparent' initially looked out of scope but this option covers the scope of passage broadly.
B. whether a company ought to provide
sensitivity training for its management - 'sensitivity' is a different aspect more so that it is too specific in nature when we are just looking for broader company policies and employee perception in general.
C.
whether a company ought to create more opportunities for interaction among workers - well i can only say that 'çreating more opportunities' is certainly one of the aspects that would help company bridge the gap between employees' perception and company's policies. It's a good option but better is available in the form of A.
D. whether a company ought to address employee
grievances more directly - 'grievances' and 'more directly' are questionable. First, 'grievances' is out of scope. Second, again, it's too specific.
E. whether a company ought to implement a more elaborate orientation program for
new employees -
First, we don't know about who 'new employees' are - one year old, six months old or a week old.
Second, do they have perception yet.
Third, does their perception matter for the company yet.
Fourth, this may be an outside knowledge but it helps, are new employees significant enough to weigh-in their perception.
Again made a silly mistake.
3. The primary focus of the passage is on which of the following?A.
Comparing a new theory of corporate performance to a
discredited theory and
predicting the usefulness of the new theory. - Nowhere the passage suggests to compare theories. What is that 'discredited theory'? 'Predicting' still is okay somewhat.
B.
Illustrating a new approach to measuring employee satisfaction through a detailed analysis of a particular case. - 'Illustrating' is fine. But since it's a primary purpose type question, 'particular case', although not discussed, can only cover a small part of the passage.
C.
Challenging an old view of
employee commitment and suggesting that a
new paradigm is necessary. - What are these three.??
D.
Promoting a new method of measuring the likelihood of corporate success by explaining its benefits - I was 90% sure that this was the answer but thought 'promoting' was done only in the last line of the 3rd para. So, rejected due to a miscalculation. But, overall, all that details in 2nd para and foundation laying in 1st para are for getting to know how Value Congruence could help companies.
E.
Defending a proposed system of
corporate analysis through
examples of its success. - Where are the examples?? There's nothing defensive in the passage and what is that 'analysis'.
Good passage. I was able to understand it but got stuck in subtle things of the options.
I still hope that this is helpful.