In an incident at the local factory of a large multinational company, the CEO was heckled by three representatives of the workers’ union with whom he had been having a meeting. Soon after the incident, the management dismissed the three employees The employees involved accepted their dismissal letters but subsequently provoked other workers to go in for a strike to protest the management’s move. The workers at the factory went on a strike for two days after that. The incident had opened a can of worms. The three men who were charge-sheeted, were members of the 41-member committee of BMU, which had strong political connections with the ruling party in the state where the factory was located. Thus the incident became more of a political issue rather than an industrial relations problem when the party started pressurizing the company to resolve the incident in favour of the workers. The trio had also been close to senior managers of the company who were no longer there and had farmed out a large part of the contract labour operations to them. The CEO was also of the view that recalling the chargesheeted workers would set a bad precedent in a company where the labour union was perpetually restive and might be harmful to the company’s interest in the long run. In such a complicated scenario the company was not sure whether to reconsider its substantial investment plans in the state or not.
The management of the company is considering the following options in order to resolve the present crisis:
1. Close down the factory where the strike is happening as well indefinitely postpone its investment plans in the state in order to coerce the BMU and the state apparatus to help lift the workers’ strike.
2. Recall the chargesheeted workers in order to lift the strike even though it may set a bad precedent in the company
3. Order for an impartial judicial enquiry into the issue to determine whether the dismissal of the employees was legally right and ask the state apparatus to convince the striking workers to abide by the verdict of the enquiry.
4. Negotiate with the three dismissed workers and offer a generous severance package so that they may themselves help resolve the situation and have the strike lifted.
5. Have the CEO removed hoping that the incident would then resolve out by itself.
From the management’s point of view, keeping in mind the company’s objectives, the options for finding a solution to the crisis, in the descending order of ease of implementation would be:
Near Chicago a newly built hydroponic spinach factory, a completely controlled environment for growing spinach, produces on 1 acre of floor space what it takes 100 acres of fields to produce. Expenses, especially for electricity, are high ,hwoever, and the spinach produced costs about four times as much as washed California field spinach, the spinach commonly sold throughout the United States. Which of the following, if true, best supports a projection that the spinach-growing facility near Chicago will beprofitable? (A) Once the operators of the facility are experienced, they will be able to cut operating expenses by about 25 percent. (B) There is virtually no scope for any further reduction in the cost per pound for California field spinach. (C) Unlike washed field spinach, the hydroponically grown spinach is untainted by any pesticides or herbicides and thus will sell at exceptionally herbicides an thus will sell at exceptionally high prices to such customers as health food restaurants. (D) Since spinach is a crop that ships relatively well, the market for the hydroponically grown spinach is no more limited to the Chicago area than the market for California field spinach is to California. (E) A second hydroponics facility is being built in Canada, taking advantage of inexpensive electricity and high vegetable prices.
So, a college plans to go green. I thought "changing all buildings" was not a viable option (asli duniya mein it's not viable) but it was the correct choice. :/
Two teams Arrogant and Overconfident are participating in a cricket tournament. The odds that team Arrogant will be champion is 5 to 3, and that Overconfident will be the champion is 1 to 4. What are the odds that either team Arrogant or team Overconfident will be the champion?
Are we getting LR in XAT or is it likely to be like the previous few years? With SNAP LR and the LRDI of CAT, I've become supremely weary of this section of doom for 2015.
History , if viewed as a repository not merely of anecdotes or chronology, could produce a decisive transformation in the image of science by which we are now possessed. That image has previously been drawn, even by scientists themselves, mainly from the study of finished scientific achievement as three are recorded in the classics and, more recently, in the textbooks from which each new scientific generation learns to practice its trade.
Which of the following best summarizes the above paragraph?
Scientific achievement are recorded in classics and text books
Text books may be biased
All of above
Different ways of looking at history can produce altogether different knowledge
History of science can be inferred from finished scientific achievement
A train left station X at A hour B minutes. It reached station Y at B hour C minutes on the same day , after traveling C hours A minutes (clock shows time 0 hours to 24hours).
Number of possible value(s) of A is ...?
Those of you who are giving mocks of coaching institutes, which one would you suggest among these - CL, IMS (old 5 or new 2 or both), Oliveboard? I saw a fair amount of repetition in QA/DM Qs in some of the old pattern IMS mocks and hence wanted to know which ones are good (having the least repetition). Thanks!
Two circles of radius 1 cm touch at point P. A third circle is drawn through the points A, B and C such that PA is the diameter of the first circle, and BC - perpendicular to AP - is the diameter of the second circle. The radius of the third circle is ?