Para Jumbles:Test-19

1. Managers, especially the successful ones, should guard against ascribing to themselves qualities and attributes which they may not have, or may have in a measure much less than what they think they have!
A. External appearances can be deceptive.
B. To initiate action without being in possession of full facts can lead to disastrous results.
C. Also one should develop confidents who can be used as sounding boards in order to check one’s own thinking against that of the others.
D. It is also useful to be receptive to feedback about oneself so that a real understanding of the ‘self’ exists.
6. A false perception can be like wearing coloured glasses – all facts get fainted by colour of the glass and the mind interprets them wrongly to fit into the perception.

1. Conflicting demands for resources are always voiced by different functions/ departments in an organization.
A. Every manager examines the task entrusted to him and evaluates the resources required.
B. Availability of resources in full measure makes task achievement easy because it reduces the effort needed to somewhat make-do.
C. A safety cushion is built into demand for resources to offset the adverse impact of any cut imposed by the seniors.
D. This aspect needs to be understood as a reality.
6. Dynamic, energetic, growth-oriented and wise managements are always confronted with the inadequacy of resources with respect to one of the four Ms ( men, machine, money and materials) and the two Ts (time and technology).

1. Despite the passage of time, a large number of conflicts continue to remain alive, because the wronged parties, in reality or in imagination, wish to take revenge upon each other, thus creating a vicious circle.
A. At times, managers are called upon to take ruthless decisions in the long-term interests of the organization.
B. People hurt others, at times knowingly, to teach them a lesson and at other times because they lack correct understanding of other person’s stand.
C. The delegation of any power to any person is never absolute.
D. Every ruthless decision will be accepted easily if the situation at the moment of committing the act is objectively analyzed, shared openly and discussed rationally.
6. Power is misused; its effects can last only for a while, since employees are bound to confront it someday.

1. Managers need to differentiate among those who commit an error once, those who are repetitively errant but can be corrected, and those who are basically wicked.
A. The persons in this category will resort to sweet-talk and make all sorts of promises on being caught, but, at the first opportunity will revert to their bad ways.
B. Managers must take ruthless action against the basically wicked and ensure their separation from the organization at the earliest.
C. The first category needs to be corrected softly and duly counseled; the second category should be dealt with firmly and duly counseled till they realize the danger of persisting with their errant behavior.
D. It is the last category of whom the managers must be most wary.
6. The punishment must be fair and based on the philosophy of giving all the possible opportunities and help prior to taking ruthless action.

1. Whenever technology has flowered, it has put man’s language – developing skills into overdrive.
A. Technical terms are spilling into the main stream almost as fast as junk-mail is slapped into e-mail boxes.
B. The era of computers is no less.
C. From the wheel with its axle to the spinning wheel with its bobbins to the compact disc and its jewel box inventions have trailed new words in their wake.
D. “Cyberslang is huge but its parochial, and we don’t know that will filter into the large culture,” said Tom Dalzell, who wrote the slang dictionary ‘Flappers 2 Rappers’.
6. Some slangs already have a pedigree.