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EXAMINATION 1982
ENGLISH (Prcis & Composition)
Time allowed: 3 hours Maximum marks: 100
1. Write a Prcis of the following passage in about 100 words and suggest a title:
20 Objectives
pursued by, organisations should be directed to the satisfaction of demands
resulting from the wants of mankind. Therefore, the determination of appropriate
objectives for
organised activity must be preceded by an effort to determine precisely what their
wants are.
Industrial organisations conduct market studies to learn what consumer goods should
be
produced. City Commissions make surveys to ascertain what civic projects would be
of most
benefit. Highway Commissions conduct traffic counts to learn what constructive
programmes
should be undertaken. Organisations come into being as a means for creating and
exchanging
utility. Their success is dependent upon the appropriateness of the series of acts
contributed to
the system. The majority of these acts is purposeful, that is, they are directed to
the
accomplishment of some objective. These acts are physical in nature and find
purposeful
employment in the alteration of the physical environment. As a result utility is
created, which,
through the process of distribution, makes it possible for the cooperative system
to endure.
Before the Industrial Revolution most cooperative activity was accomplished in
small
owner-managed enterprises, usually with a single decision maker and simple
organisational
objectives. Increased technology and the growth of industrial organisations made
necessary the
establishment of a hierarchy of objectives. This, in turn, required a divison of
the management,
function until today a hierarchy of decision maker exists in most organisations..
The effective pursuit of appropriate objectives contributes directly the
organisational
efficiency. As used here, efficiency is a measure of the want satisfying power of
the cooperative
system as a whole. Thus efficiency is the summation of utilities received from the
organisation
divided by the utilities given to the organisation, as subjectively evaluated by
each contributor.
The function of the management process is the delineation of organisational
objectives and
the coordination of activity towards the accomplishment of these objectives. The
system of
coordinated activities must be maintained sothateach contributor, including the
manager, gains
more than he contributes.
2. Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow:
After a situation has been carefully analysed and the possible outcomes have been
evaluated
as accurately as possible, a decision can be made. This decision may include the
alternative of
not making a decision on the alternatives presented. After all the data that can be
brought to bear
on a situation has been considered, some areas of uncertainty may be expected to
remain. If a
decision is to be made, these areas of uncertainty must be bridged by the
consideration and
evaluation of intangibles. Some call the type of evaluation involved in the
consideration of
intangibles, intuition, others call it hunch on judgement, whatever it be called,
it is inescapable
tat this type of thinking must always be the final part in arriving at a decision
about the future.
There is no other way if action is to be taken. There appears to be a marked
difference in
peoples abilities to come to sound conclusions, when some facts relative to a
situation are
missing, those who possess sound judgement, are richly rewarded.
But as effective as as intuition, hunch on judgement may some times be, this type
of thinking
should be reserved for those areas where facts on which to base a decision, are
missing.
a) How is it possible to come to a sound decision when facts are missing?
b) What part in your opinion. does decision making play in the efficient
functioning of an
organisation.
OR
Bring out the implications of the following observation. Traveller, there is no
path:
paths are made by walking.
3. Make sentences to illustrate the meaning of any five of the following:
i) To come to a dead end.
ii) To turn a deafer
iii) Every dark cloud has a silver lining
iv) Blowing hot and cold together
v) To let the cat out of the bag
vi) To put the cart before the horse
vii) To sail in the same boat
viii) A Swan Song.
Use any five of the following pairs of words in your own sentences to bring out
their
meaning: -
i) Mitigate, Alleviate ii) Persecute, Prosecute
hi) Popular, Populace iv) Compliment, Complement -
v) Excite, Incite vi) Voracity, Veracity
vii) Virtual, Virtuous viii) Exceptional, Exceptionable
5. Write a paragraph on at least 100 words on any one of the following topics:
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a) All that glitters is not gold.
b) Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.
c) Problems of developing countries.
d) There is no short cut to success.
c) To err is human, to forgive is divine.
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