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DIRECTIONS:
Read the fol lowing passages carefully and answer the questions given below them. Certain words are given in bold to help you to locate them while answering some of the questions.
PASSAGE
Management is a set of processes that can keep a complicated system of people and technology running smoothly. The most important aspects of management include planning, budgeting, organising, staffing, controlling, and problem-solving. Leadership is a set of processes that creates organizations in the first place or adapts them to significantly changing circumstances. Leadership defines what the future should look like, aligns people with that vision, and inspires them to make it happen despite the obstacles. This distinction is absolutely crucial for our purposes here: Successful transformation is 70 to 90 per cent leadership and only 10 to 30 per cent management. Yet for historical reasons, many organizations today don't have much leadership. And almost everyone thinks about the problems here as one of managing change.
For most of this century, as we created thousands and thousands of large organizations for the first time in human history, we didn't have enough good managers to keep all those bureaucracies functioning. So many companies and universities developed management programmes, and hundreds and thousands of people were encouraged to learn management on the job. And they did. But, people were taught little about leadership. To some degree, management was emphasized because it's easier to teach than leadership. But even more so, management was the main item on the twentieth-century agenda because that's what was needed. For every entrepreneur or business builder who was a leader, we needed hundreds of managers to run their ever growing enterprises.
Unfortunately for us today, this emphasis on management has often been institutionalized in corporate cultures that discourage employees from learning how to lead. Ironically, past success is usually the key ingredient in producing this outcome. The syndrome, as I have observed it on many occasions, goes like this: success creates some degree of market dominance, which in turn produces much growth. After a while keeping the ever larger organization under control becomes the primary challenge. So attention turns inward, and managerial competencies are nurtured. With a strong emphasis on management but not on leadership, bureaucracy and an inward focus take over. But with continued success, the result mostly of market dominance, the problem often goes unaddressed and an unhealthy arrogance begins to evolve. All of these characteristics then make any transformation effort much more difficult.
Arrogant managers can over-evaluate their current performance and competitive position, listen poorly, and learn slowly. Inwardly focused employees can have difficulty seeing the very forces that present threats and opportunities. Bureaucratic cultures can smother those who want to respond to shifting conditions. And the lack of leadership leaves no force inside these organisations to break out of the morass.
The following question based on reading comprehension topic of general english mcq
(a) Focus of these programmes was on developing managers.
(b) Leadership was considered only a political phenomenon.
(c) Enough study material was not available to facilitate teaching of leadership.
(d) Teachers were busy in understanding the phenomenon of leadership.
e) None of these
The correct answers to the above question in:
Answer: (a)
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Question : 1
Which of the following statements is/are definitely true in the context of the passage?
- Bureaucracy fosters strong and arrogant culture.
- Leadership competencies are nurtured in large-size organisations.
- Successful transformation in organisations is 70 to 90 per cent leadership.
a) Only B and C
b) Only B
c) Only A and C
d) Only A and B
e) Only C
Answer »Answer: (c)
DIRECTIONS:
Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below. Certain words/phrases are printed in bold to help you to locate them while answering some of the questions.
PASSAGE
There is no field of human endeavour that has been so misunderstood as health. While health which connotes well-being and the absence of illness has a low profile, it is illness representing the failure of health which virtually monopolises attention because of the fear of pain, disability and death. Even Snshruta has warned that this provides the medical practitioner power over the patient which could be misused.
Till recently, patients had implicit faith in their physician whom they loved and respected, not only for his knowledge but also in the total belief that practitioners of this noble profession, guided by ethics, always placed the patient's interest above all other considerations. This rich interpersonal relationship between the physician, patient and family has, barring a few exceptions, prevailed till the recent past, for caring was considered as important as curing. Our indigenous systems of medicine like ayurveda and yoga have heen more concerned with the promotion of the health of both the body and mind and with maintaining a harmonious relationship not just with fellow-beings but with nature itself, of which man is an integral part. Healthy practices like cleanliness, proper diet, exercise and meditation are part of our culture which sustains people even in the prevailing conditions of poverty in rural India and in the unhygienic urban slums.
These systems consider disease as an aberration resulting from disturbance of the equilibrium of health, which must be corrected by gentle restoration of this balance through proper diet, medicines and the establishment of mental peace. They also teach the graceful acceptance of old age with its infirmities resulting from the normal degenerative process as well as of death which is inevitable.
This is in marked contrast to the western concept of life as a constant struggle against disease, ageing and death which must be fought and conquered with the knowledge and technology derived from their science: a science which, with its narrow dissective and quantifying approach, has provided us the understanding of the microbial causes of communicable diseases and provided highly effective technology for their prevention, treatment and control. This can rightly be claimed as the greatest contribution of western medicine and justifiably termed as 'high' technology. And yet the contribution of this science in the field of non-communicable diseases is remarkably poor despite the far greater inputs in research and treatment for the problems of ageing like cancer, heart diseases, paralytic strokes and arthritis which are the major problems of affluent societies today.
Question : 2
Which of the following has been described as the most outstanding benefits of modern medicine?
- The real cause and ways of control of communicable diseases
- Evolution of the concept of harmony between man and nature
- Special techniques for fighting to age
a) Only B
b) Only A
c) Only A and B
d) Only B and C
Answer »Answer: (b)
From the last paragraph of the given passage.
Question : 3
In India traditionally the doctors were being guided mainly by which of the following?
a) Power over patient
b) Professional ethics
c) Good knowledge
d) High technology
Answer »Answer: (b)
From the fourth line of the second paragraph.
Question : 4
Which of the following characteristics helps organisations in their transformation efforts?
a) Bureaucratic and inward-looking approach
b) Failing to acknowledge the value of customers and shareholders
c) A strong and dogmatic culture
d) Emphasis on leadership but not on management
e) None of these
Answer »Answer: (e)
Question : 5
What, according to the author, is leadership?
a) Inspiring people to realise the vision
b) Carrying out the crucial functions of management
c) Planning the future and budgeting resources of the organisation
d) Process which keeps the system of people and technology running smoothly
e) None of these
Answer »Answer: (a)
Question : 6
Which of the following is SIMILAR in the meaning of the word NURTURED as used in the passage?
a) thwarted
b) surfaced
c) developed
d) created
e) halted
Answer »Answer: (c)
The meaning of the word ‘nurtured’ as mentioned in the passage is ‘to help the development of something’.
Hence the words ‘nurtured’ and ‘developed’ are synonymous.
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