Direction: Read the following scenario and answer the TWO questions that follow.
The CEO of the Jamshedpur Tea Factory (JTF) was in a quandary over employees skipping work. It was becoming increasingly difficult for him to identify employees who faked illness to skip work. The work of the employees was complex and intricate, and they had to report to eight supervisors. “Faking illness” made it difficult for JTF to judiciously decide on “Promotion” and “Training” of employees. An employee could only be promoted on the completion of a multi-skilling training program. Further, to be nominated for the training program, an employee must be recommended by a minimum of six supervisors. JTF wanted to promote only sincere and deserving employees.
Which of the following policies will be MOST prone to error while selecting deserving and sincere employees?
The CEO of the Jamshedpur Tea Factory (JTF) was in a quandary over employees skipping work. It was becoming increasingly difficult for him to identify employees who faked illness to skip work. The work of the employees was complex and intricate, and they had to report to eight supervisors. “Faking illness” made it difficult for JTF to judiciously decide on “Promotion” and “Training” of employees. An employee could only be promoted on the completion of a multi-skilling training program. Further, to be nominated for the training program, an employee must be recommended by a minimum of six supervisors. JTF wanted to promote only sincere and deserving employees.
Which of the following policies will be MOST prone to error while selecting deserving and sincere employees?
- Let the CEO office decide on leave but supervisors will recommend the promotion.
- Let the CEO office decide on the leave as well as promotions.
- Outsource all leave decisions to a lawyer whose judgement will be final
- Outsource all leave decisions to a doctor whose judgement will be final
- Let the CEO office decide on promotions but supervisors will decide on the leave.
The Correct Option is
Approach Solution - 1
The scenario concerns the challenge faced by the CEO of Jamshedpur Tea Factory (JTF) in identifying employees who fake illnesses, which impacts the decision-making related to promotions and training. The key issue is ensuring that only sincere and deserving employees are promoted, a decision complicated by employees potentially misusing sick leave.
To solve this, JTF requires a policy that effectively filters out those who fake illness from deserving candidates. Let's analyze the given options to decide which policy is prone to error in selecting sincere employees:
- Let the CEO office decide on leave but supervisors will recommend the promotion.
In this scenario, the CEO will have the final say on leave, but supervisors, who presumably have more direct contact with employees, will make recommendations for promotions. This approach can effectively identify sincere employees, as supervisors can witness employees’ behavior and work ethic directly.
- Let the CEO office decide on the leave as well as promotions.
This centralizes decision-making within the CEO’s office, which might lead to a lack of insight into the daily conduct of employees. This could make it challenging to identify sincere employees accurately.
- Outsource all leave decisions to a lawyer whose judgement will be final.
Lawyers might lack the expertise to judge the genuineness of illness claims, as their field doesn't involve medical knowledge. This approach is unlikely to be effective in accurately identifying those faking illnesses.
- Outsource all leave decisions to a doctor whose judgement will be final.
Doctors are more equipped to assess illness claims accurately, which should reduce the chances of selecting undeserving employees due to fake illnesses.
- Let the CEO office decide on promotions but supervisors will decide on the leave.
This option hands leave decision-making to supervisors but leaves promotion decisions to the CEO. Since supervisors are not involved in recommending employees for promotions, they might not be as vigilant in identifying insincere behavior, leading to errors in promoting insincere employees. This is the choice prone to error, as it disconnects the leave decision-making from the promotion recommendations.
Conclusion: The policy that will be most prone to error while selecting deserving and sincere employees is the one where the CEO office decides on promotions but supervisors will decide on the leave. This is because the lack of involvement of supervisors in the promotion process disconnects leaves decisions from performance evaluations, increasing the potential of promoting insincere employees.
Approach Solution -2
Analyzing the scenario of Jamshedpur Tea Factory (JTF), the core issue revolves around identifying sincere employees for promotions and training while dealing with the problem of employees faking illness. The requirement for promotion depends on the completion of a multi-skilling program, which necessitates the recommendation of at least six supervisors.
Considering the options given:
- Let the CEO office decide on leave but supervisors will recommend the promotion: This option gives the CEO control over leave, reducing subjectivity from supervisors in leave decisions but relies on supervisor recommendations for promotions, which isn't fully shielded from biased results due to personal perceptions.
- Let the CEO office decide on the leave as well as promotions: Ensures centralized decision-making regarding both leave and promotions, reducing bias but potentially overburdening the CEO office.
- Outsource all leave decisions to a lawyer whose judgement will be final: A lawyer's judgment isn't relevant for assessing sick leave claims, thus leading to potential inefficiencies.
- Outsource all leave decisions to a doctor whose judgement will be final: This provides an expert opinion on illnesses, improving accuracy in determining valid sick leave, but does not address the promotion issue directly.
- Let the CEO office decide on promotions but supervisors will decide on the leave: This policy could be problem-prone. Since supervisors might have a biased view due to direct interactions with employees, if they decide on leaves, they might base promotion recommendations on incorrect leave assessments.
The most error-prone policy is the Let the CEO office decide on promotions but supervisors will decide on the leave. Here, leave is susceptible to bias because supervisors, who closely interact with the employees, may have skewed perceptions, ultimately affecting their promotion recommendations. Hence, due to this reliance on subjective assessment for leave without expert evaluation, this option is prone to error in selecting deserving and sincere employees.
Top Questions on Verbal Reasoning
Read definition and all four choices carefully, and find the answer that provides the best example of the given definition. Answer the question solely on the basis of the definition given.
Definition: An informal gathering occurs when a group of people get together in a casual, relaxed manner. Which situation below is the best example of an informal gathering?
- NIMCET - 2025
- Logical Reasoning
- Verbal Reasoning
- Which word in the following is the "odd man" out?
(a) Pampering
(b) Promoting
(c) Nurturing
(d) Incubating- NIMCET - 2025
- Logical Reasoning
- Verbal Reasoning
How many pairs of letters are there in the word 'LANGUISH' which have the same letters between them in the word as in the alphabet?
- Karnataka PGCET - 2025
- Logical Reasoning
- Verbal Reasoning
- Select the related pair that has the same relationship as the original pair of words. Numismatist: Coins
- India is poised for rapid economic growth, potentially spurred by a young population driving production and demand. In the process, inevitably, lifestyles are being dramatically altered for the worse. India now reports the highest growth of ultra-processed food consumption among the youth, as well as low levels of exercise and adequate sleep. Cultural changes, including smartphones and a preponderance of English in schools, are also associated with weakened family relationships. Until recently, in the absence of extensive data, the role of these factors on mental well-being, encompassing our full range of mental capability, was not well understood. Recent findings based on a large database of over 1,50,000 individuals in India are beginning to shed light on the correlates of mental well-being among adolescents. The findings are dire. There is a silent epidemic of mental ill-health in India. Previous studies have found that ownership of smartphones is” frying” the brain. Data also suggests that it is not merely the ownership of a phone but also the early age of access that is associated with worse cognition and mental well-being as young adults. The young brain is developing and must be nurtured. These gadgets are handed to adolescents, presumably more out of convenience than sound logic. The American philosopher David Henry Thoreau remarked over 175 years ago,” Technology is an improved means to an unimproved end.” This is an extreme position but one worth mulling. India reports the highest growth in consumption of ultra-processed foods. Some evidence suggests that these foods are as addictive as smoking. Recent data globally and from India shows a strong association between the consumption of ultra-processed foods and poor mental well-being, particularly the capacities for emotional and cognitive control.
- CLAT - 2025
- Logical Reasoning
- Verbal Reasoning
Questions Asked in XAT exam
- An artificial swimming pool is circular and water is flowing clockwise at a speed of 3 km/hr. Two swimmers Ayub and Rana start from diametrically opposite points, Ayub in the anticlockwise direction and Rana in the clockwise direction. They first meet at a point such that Ayub has covered 60 m by that time. Their second meeting point is such that Rana has covered another 180 m after the first meeting point. If the speed of Rana in still water is 3 km/hr, find the time taken by Ayub to cover one full circle in the clockwise direction.
- XAT - 2026
- Time and Work
- Arrange the following generations from the oldest to the youngest:
1. Generation X
2. Silent Generation
3. Generation Alpha
4. Baby Boomers
5. Millennials
- XAT - 2026
- Current Affairs
- Read the following scenario and answer the THREE questions that follow.
Brijbhushan, a microfinancier, lends money at the rate of Rs.10 per square meter to small farmers at a village. He charges an annual interest rate of 10%. All the farming plots in that village are rectangular, with areas varying between a minimum of 1000 square meters and a maximum of 10,000 square meters.
This year, Brijbhushan has lent money only to five farmers: Aditya, Binod, Chhuttan, Dabloo and Govind. The perimeter of Chhuttan’s plot is 250 meters, with the length and width being at a ratio of 4:1. Aditya’s plot has an area three times the area of Govind’s plot. The area of Aditya’s plot is also the average of the areas of Govind’s plot and Dabloo’s plot. The plots belonging to Aditya, Binod and Dabloo are of the same width, but of different lengths. Moreover, the length of Binod’s plot is the sum of the lengths of Aditya’s plot and Dabloo’s plot.- XAT - 2026
- Mensuration
Light Chemicals is an industrial paint supplier with presence in three locations: Mumbai, Hyderabad and Bengaluru. The sunburst chart below shows the distribution of the number of employees of different departments of Light Chemicals. There are four departments: Finance, IT, HR and Sales. The employees are deployed in four ranks: junior, mid, senior and executive. The chart shows four levels: location, department, rank and gender (M: male, F: female). At every level, the number of employees at a location/department/rank/gender are proportional to the corresponding area of the region represented in the chart.
Due to some issues with the software, the data on junior female employees have gone missing. Notice that there are junior female employees in Mumbai HR, Sales and IT departments, Hyderabad HR department, and Bengaluru IT and Finance departments. The corresponding missing numbers are marked u, v, w, x, y and z in the diagram, respectively.
It is also known that:
a) Light Chemicals has a total of 210 junior employees.
b) Light Chemicals has a total of 146 employees in the IT department.
c) Light Chemicals has a total of 777 employees in the Hyderabad office.
d) In the Mumbai office, the number of female employees is 55.
- XAT - 2026
- Pie Charts
An investment company, Win Lose, recruit's employees to trade in the share market. For newcomers, they have a one-year probation period. During this period, the employees are given Rs. 1 lakh per month to invest the way they see fit. They are evaluated at the end of every month, using the following criteria:
1. If the total loss in any span of three consecutive months exceeds Rs. 20,000, their services are terminated at the end of that 3-month period,
2. If the total loss in any span of six consecutive months exceeds Rs. 10,000, their services are terminated at the end of that 6-month period.
Further, at the end of the 12-month probation period, if there are losses on their overall investment, their services are terminated.
Ratan, Shri, Tamal and Upanshu started working for Win Lose in January. Ratan was terminated after 4 months, Shri was terminated after 7 months, Tamal was terminated after 10 months, while Upanshu was not terminated even after 12 months. The table below, partially, lists their monthly profits (in Rs. ‘000’) over the 12-month period, where x, y and z are masked information.
Note:
• A negative profit value indicates a loss.
• The value in any cell is an integer.
Illustration: As Upanshu is continuing after March, that means his total profit during January-March (2z +2z +0) ≥
Rs.20,000. Similarly, as he is continuing after June, his total profit during January − June ≥
Rs.10,000, as well as his total profit during April-June ≥ Rs.10,000.
- XAT - 2026
- Logical and Analytical Reasoning Skills