List of top Decision Making Questions

Read the following caselet and answer the questions that follow:
You are a Human Resource (HR) Manager in the HR Department of Vikash Educational Charitable Trust. You organize and support recruitment and training, provide secretarial support for disciplinary investigations and keep personnel records of staff. You report to Ms. Deelipa, one of the two Senior HR Managers who reports to the HR Director.

Madhuri Apte, a busy professional, rents out her studio apartment located in South Mumbai. Since she stays three hours away from the studio apartment, she uses a networked digital lock to monitor the property remotely. Each customer gets a temporary and unique access code for the digital lock that enables them to enter the studio apartment for the duration of stay. The apartment’s entrance door can also be opened with physical keys and Madhuri Apte has two such keys in her possession.
Madhuri Apte has employed a cleaner who has a permanent access code to enter the apartment for cleaning every day. She is available only between 15:00 hrs and 17:00 hrs.
Madhuri Apte’s apartment caters largely to international customers. A customer typically stays for 3 days, paying an average rent of $125 per day.

Answer questions on the basis of information given in the following situation.
Ramesh, the owner of an auto-component manufacturing company in Sanand, had just returned after attending the funeral of his employee, Pankaj Kumar, who had died of cancer at the age of 35. Pankaj was a hardworking and sincere employee with impeccable performance record. Pankaj was the sole bread earner for his family with negligible savings and was survived by his wife and two school going children. His wife will get around 8 lakh rupees accrued to Pankaj as social security benefit.
A large number of employees wanted the organization to employ Pankaj’s wife on compassionate grounds so that she could support her family. Though Ramesh was sympathetic to the demand, he realized that this could set a precedence, where the organization will have to provide jobs for everyone with similar conditions in the future. In fact, only recently, Ramesh had refused a request for a job to the daughter of an employee, who had died a few months before he was to retire.

Answer questions on the basis of information given in the following situation.
Three persons, A, B and C, lived on an island hill. A lived on the top of the island hill, B occupied the middle portion of the hill and C occupied the bottom of the hill. The top of the hill received good rainfall, the main source of water in the hill, though this portion of the hill had few trees. The middle of the hill however was lush with trees offering timber. The bottom of the hill had a good amount of stones and sand. A, B and C assessed
their wealth in terms of ownership of timber, water, stones and sand available in the island hill only. During heavy rains, stones and sand from the top and middle portion of the hill rolled over to the bottom. When the rains stopped, both A and B claimed that some stones rolled down from their lands to the land occupied by C. They wanted the stones back. But C argued that rolling down of stones is a natural process.

A courier service has offices at three locations: Jamshedpur, Kharagpur and Howrah. Its employees travel by trains from one location to another for pick-up and delivery. It takes 40 minutes for an employee to travel from any railway station to the nearest office (and another 40 minutes for coming back); the paperwork to deliver the parcel at the respective office takes an additional 10 minutes. Assume employees do not waste any time.
Employees have the option to choose front any of the trains, whose timetable is given in the table below. Assume all trains travel on time and there is no time gap between arrival and departure of a train. Further, assume that the employee boards the train as soon as it arrives at the station

Answer questions on the basis of information given in the following situation.
Ava is the CEO of Ratan Brothers, a bicycle manufacturing company. The organization is doing well financially, with a steadily increasing share price. Recently, Ava promoted Bhushan, her nephew, to the position of head of procurement after he completed five years in the organization. After the promotion, he was automatically inducted into the quality council headed by Ava.
Dev and Sons is a supplier to Ratan Brothers. It supplies “ball bearings”, an important part of any bicycle. After Bhushan took over, he switched to a new supplier citing quality deficiencies in Dev and Sons’ product. Dev and Sons responded by publicly declaring that quality was not compromised. Further, it alleged that its competitor bribed Bhushan to get the contract.

Answer questions on the basis of information given in the following situation.
Rose is the Queen of Kingdom A and Emily is the Queen of Kingdom B; both share a common border. They also share a border with Kingdom C, a much larger kingdom, ruled by King Jonathan who has expansive ambitions. Though individually their armies were no match to his might, together their armies were more powerful than King Jonathan’s army.
Jonathan’s kingdom also bordered Kingdom K on the opposite side, making Kingdom C a buffer state between Kingdoms A, B and K. Kingdom K is ruled by King Summer Sault, who united a group of warring and belligerent tribes under his aegis. Kingdom K and Kingdom C had continuous skirmishes with each other.

Answer questions on the basis of information given in the following situation.
Lal & Sons, a family business, comprises three different companies in three different industries. Sudarshan Lal was heading this entire business from the inception. Two years ago, he hired three managers, one for each company and Chhaganlal Jha as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) to look after the entire business. These three managers are reporting to the CEO. However, Sudarshan Lal and his family still own the entire business, though they are not involved in day to day operations.

Answer the following questions on the basis of information given in the following situation.
Satyender heads a branch of a Micro-Finance company. The company provides small-size loans catering to rural households. As the head of the branch, he supervises three collection officers - Palani, Sayed, and Godwin. Palani was recently transferred by the company from another branch.

Direction: Go through the following scenario and answer the THREE questions that follow.
To prepare a dish (e.g., Dosa- Sambhar, Idli-chutney, Rajma-Chawal, Mawa-Bati), the chef has to finish nine activities, some of which could be done simultaneously, while others could not be done simultaneously (see diagram). One of the challenges faced by the chef was to precisely calculate the preparation time of a dish and communicate the waiting time to the customers.
However, based on the past data, the chef had an idea about approximate time taken to complete each activity. He had noted down the best (optimistic), worst (pessimistic) and most likely (most commonly observed) time to finish each of the nine activities. Further, the chef realised that frequency of occurrence of most likely time was 66.666%, and the frequency of occurrence of pessimistic and optimistic times were 16.666% each. The diagram below shows the activities involved and the table shows the optimistic, pessimistic, and most likely times for each activity. Time is indicated in minutes in the table below.
The expected time to prepare the dish is the weighted average of optimistic, pessimistic and most likely time.Which of the following is the expected wait time for the chef to communicate to the customers?

Direction: Read the following scenario and answer the questions that follow.
Vipul is working with the operations department at Awsum Ventures. He reports to Suresh, who heads the operations department. Seven months ago Suresh got married to Reena, who is Vipul’s counterpart. After the marriage, Vipul realised that Suresh used to ask him to finish all the tasks Reena could not handle and therefore, he started feeling overburdened. Vipul tried talking to Suresh about the issue but received a cold response.
What should Vipul do?

Direction: Read the following scenario and answer the questions that follow.
Vipul is working with the operations department at Awsum Ventures. He reports to Suresh, who heads the operations department. Seven months ago Suresh got married to Reena, who is Vipul’s counterpart. After the marriage, Vipul realised that Suresh used to ask him to finish all the tasks Reena could not handle and therefore, he started feeling overburdened. Vipul tried talking to Suresh about the issue but received a cold response.
Two months later, it was the time of appraisals at Awsum Ventures. Vipul was pretty sure about getting a promotion as he had received awards and appreciation from his seniors at many occasions during the year. Almost everyone in the team was sure of Reena being fired as she was on PIP for 6 months and on leave for 1 month for his wedding during the year. Suresh took the following decisions during the appraisal cycle:
1) Did not hold an appraisal meeting with Vipul to review his performance.
2) Gave a 5% hike, which was given to everyone in the company, to Vipul.
3) Gave a 15% hike to Reena.
Arrange these decisions in a descending order wherein the most unjust decision is the first.

Direction: Read the following scenario and answer the questions that follow:
Mohan, Kishan, Manohar, and Kripa own a dry cleaning shop each in Skardi Plaza. They are the only dry cleaners in a township which is home to over 5,000 families. Each of them offered three services: Dry cleaning, Darning, and Alteration. One morning they met at a snack shop and verbally agreed to charge Rs. 200 for any of the three services on weekdays. On weekends and holidays, they agreed to increase the rate by Rs. 50.
The very next day after the four dry cleaners had met and agreed upon fixing the prices, Kripa, being the most skilled dry cleaner in the township, was thinking about setting his rates a bit higher than the one all the dry cleaners had agreed upon.
Which of the following options would let Kripa charge the rate he wants to, without violating the agreement in a major way?

Direction: Read the following scenario and answer the questions that follow:
Mohan, Kishan, Manohar, and Kripa own a dry cleaning shop each in Skardi Plaza. They are the only dry cleaners in a township which is home to over 5,000 families. Each of them offered three services: Dry cleaning, Darning, and Alteration. One morning they met at a snack shop and verbally agreed to charge Rs. 200 for any of the three services on weekdays. On weekends and holidays, they agreed to increase the rate by Rs. 50.
The business of Manohar heavily relies on the income made from providing services to a particular set of customers who were loyal to him. He is worried that since the rates would be the same everywhere in the township, he might not be able to retain his loyal customers.
Which of the following options would enable him to retain his customers while also keeping the rates same as other dry cleaners?

Direction: Read the following scenario and answer the questions that follow:
Mohan, Kishan, Manohar, and Kripa own a dry cleaning shop each in Skardi Plaza. They are the only dry cleaners in a township which is home to over 5,000 families. Each of them offered three services: Dry cleaning, Darning, and Alteration. One morning they met at a snack shop and verbally agreed to charge Rs. 200 for any of the three services on weekdays. On weekends and holidays, they agreed to increase the rate by Rs. 50.
After two months from the date of the agreement, Mohan observed a decrease in his revenues. He wasn’t as skilled as Kripa, nor did he have a loyal customer base like Manohar. In order to increase his customer base, he lowered his prices to Rs. 150 per service. After two months, Kishan, Manohar, and Kripa found out about this and shared a common concern that everyone’s revenue would take a hit because of this. What should they do so that Mohan returns to the fold and keeps his part of the agreement henceforth?

Direction: Read the following scenario and answer the questions that follow:
Licensed taxi drivers in the metropolitan city of Tropur in North India are up in arms at the emergence of appbased taxis. App based taxis are easy to obtain quickly, come in various capacities, are more comfortable to ride in than are licensed taxis. Moreover, payment can be made by debit/credit cards or online or even by cash wallets. Within a short time, these app based taxis have taken 30% of the total taxi market. The local taxi association implores the mayor of the city to do something to protect the business of licensed taxis.
What should the mayor do to mitigate this situation?

Direction: Read the following scenario and answer the questions that follow:
Licensed taxi drivers in the metropolitan city of Tropur in North India are up in arms at the emergence of appbased taxis. App based taxis are easy to obtain quickly, come in various capacities, are more comfortable to ride in than are licensed taxis. Moreover, payment can be made by debit/credit cards or online or even by cash wallets. Within a short time, these app based taxis have taken 30% of the total taxi market. The local taxi association implores the mayor of the city to do something to protect the business of licensed taxis.
What would be the best way that the mayor can ensure comfortable, hassle free transportation by app based taxis.

Direction: Read the following scenario and answer the questions that follow:
Raveena, who is working at a leading tech company, also runs a food van on weekends near her home. She sells chicken sandwiches and veg wraps at her food van. The food van is a favourite among college students who form a major part of her clientele as the food offered is pocket friendly (₹ 60- 70). The students visit the van generally for evening snacks and prefer the sandwiches and wraps sold by Raveena over the ones offered by leading food chains. She is able to sell 550- 650 units on the weekend.
Raveena sets up a stall at the college which is run by Akshay. The stall sells a chicken sandwich for ₹ 65 and a veg wrap for ₹ 55 . The stall is operational from Monday to Saturday and sells only 400 units in the first month of operation. Raveena is not convinced with the sales numbers and doubts that Akshay is not reporting the correct figures to her. Which of the following steps should Raveena take to address the issue?
I. File a police complaint against Akshay
II. Ask some of the other college students to keep an eye on Akshay.
III. Discuss the issue with Akshay and ask him for an explanation.
IV. Install CCTV cameras near the food stall in college.
V. Visit the food stall randomly without informing Akshay.

Direction: Read the following scenario and answer the questions that follow:
Raveena, who is working at a leading tech company, also runs a food van on weekends near her home. She sells chicken sandwiches and veg wraps at her food van. The food van is a favourite among college students who form a major part of her clientele as the food offered is pocket friendly (₹ 60- 70). The students visit the van generally for evening snacks and prefer the sandwiches and wraps sold by Raveena over the ones offered by leading food chains. She is able to sell 550- 650 units on the weekend.
Raveena is not doing well in her job while the food stall turns profitable in three months. Akshay keeps coming up with new ideas to increase the business. However, Raveena also realises that Akshay’s final exams are approaching, and he won't be available for approximately 20 days next month. What should Raveena do?
Consider the following courses of action:
I. Ask Akshay to leave now itself as he won’t be available next month.
II. Offer a bonus to Akshay if he turns up for work for more than 20 days next month.
III. Talk to the Principal of the college to postpone the exams as Raveena might lose her job.
Select the best courses of action for Raveena?

Direction: Read the following scenario and answer the questions that follow:
Licensed taxi drivers in the metropolitan city of Tropur in North India are up in arms at the emergence of appbased taxis. App based taxis are easy to obtain quickly, come in various capacities, are more comfortable to ride in than are licensed taxis. Moreover, payment can be made by debit/credit cards or online or even by cash wallets. Within a short time, these app based taxis have taken 30% of the total taxi market. The local taxi association implores the mayor of the city to do something to protect the business of licensed taxis.
What should the mayor do to help licensed taxi owners and yet ensure that customers have a wide choice in transportation?

Direction: Read the following scenario and answer the questions that follow:
Raveena, who is working at a leading tech company, also runs a food van on weekends near her home. She sells chicken sandwiches and veg wraps at her food van. The food van is a favourite among college students who form a major part of her clientele as the food offered is pocket friendly (₹ 60- 70). The students visit the van generally for evening snacks and prefer the sandwiches and wraps sold by Raveena over the ones offered by leading food chains. She is able to sell 550- 650 units on the weekend.
One of Raveena’s customers, Akshay, asks her to open a stall in the college he is studying in. He offers to run the stall on the weekdays if she pays him a minimal amount each month.
Which of the following will persuade Raveena to open a stall in the college?

Direction: Read the following scenario and answer the questions that follow.
Riya, a brilliant young scientist, comes from a small town with limited resources and opportunities. Despite the challenges, Riya has always been passionate about scientific research and dreams of making groundbreaking discoveries. She excels in her studies and actively participates in science competitions, where she consistently wins accolades for her innovative projects. Riya's parents, although supportive, struggle to provide the financial means necessary to support her scientific pursuits. Determined to overcome these obstacles, Riya is ready to take the next steps towards achieving her dream.
Riya successfully conducts several groundbreaking experiments and gains recognition for her contributions to the scientific community. She now wants to expand her research and collaborate with other scientists from around the world. Which strategy would be most effective for Riya to achieve this?

Direction: Read the following scenario and answer the questions that follow.
Riya, a brilliant young scientist, comes from a small town with limited resources and opportunities. Despite the challenges, Riya has always been passionate about scientific research and dreams of making groundbreaking discoveries. She excels in her studies and actively participates in science competitions, where she consistently wins accolades for her innovative projects. Riya's parents, although supportive, struggle to provide the financial means necessary to support her scientific pursuits. Determined to overcome these obstacles, Riya is ready to take the next steps towards achieving her dream.
With her ingenuity and determination, Riya finds a way to attract international collaborators and establish herself as a respected scientist in her field. However, she realises that her research findings are not effectively reaching the general public. To increase awareness and foster public interest in scientific research, which of the following options would be most beneficial for Riya?

Direction: Read the following scenario and answer the questions that follow.
Nimit has been associated with Superb Coaching Classes (SCC. as an independent trainer for the past ten years. He signs a yearly contract with SCC every year in April. According to the contract signed in April 2022, Nimit was being paid Rs. 1,50,000 per month as per the minimum guarantee of 100 hours per month @Rs. 1500 per hour. At the end of the year, Nimit was asked to pay Rs. 2,25,000 as SSC could not provide 100 classes per month to Nimit. Overall there was a deficit of 150 hours out of a total of 1200 hours in the years.
Given the above context, which of the following is the first thing Nimit should do?

Direction: Read the following scenario and answer the questions that follow.
Nimit has been associated with Superb Coaching Classes (SCC. as an independent trainer for the past ten years. He signs a yearly contract with SCC every year in April. According to the contract signed in April 2022, Nimit was being paid Rs. 1,50,000 per month as per the minimum guarantee of 100 hours per month @Rs. 1500 per hour. At the end of the year, Nimit was asked to pay Rs. 2,25,000 as SSC could not provide 100 classes per month to Nimit. Overall there was a deficit of 150 hours out of a total of 1200 hours in the years.
When Nimit checked his contract, he found that there is no clause for payment in case of deficit in the number of hours. He approached the HR department at SCC and told them that he is not liable to pay. The HR department does not take it well and tells him that his contract won’t be renewed for the next year if he doesn’t pay Rs. 2,25,000. Which of the following will be the MOST beneficial course of action for Nimit?