UGC NTA NET/JRF Exam, Management, December-2022

Total Questions: 100

91. Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow:

There has been much froth and foam across rooms and boardrooms regarding the ethics, legality and appropriateness of the practice of working for one organization while also taking up extra responsibilities and jobs with another. As a trend, it is becoming commonplace in the IT and ITeS space. This is welcome. It makes sense to encourage more flexibility to employees if these firms want to move up the value chain. So, employers should accept the reality and use it to their advantage.

But genuine concerns against 'side-hustles' must be addressed. During the pandemic, the IT sectors swiftly adapted to ork from home (WFH), and professionals furthered their professional practice. Many preferred continuing WHF. But that raised the suspcision of many employers about workers taking up a second job to earn more. Meanwhile, a shapr rise in demand for IT professionals with new skills, and their shortage, widened the demand supply gap. Those who could not cope with the expectations - at the entry or middle levels - were fired. But the gig economy provides choices and added competition to both employer and employee.

Trust is a core issue. Conflicts of interest and intellectual property rights violations are non-negotiable. Other aspects - fatigue impacting productivity, short-term vs long-term engagements in two jobs, skill acquisition, difficulty in monitoring beyond delivery of a defined output, the challenge to objectively measure output for a given compensation, peer-pressure, industry trends in employment contracts - also influence the attitude towards moonlighthing.

But IT professionals can't be treated as captives. The industry must set the bar for high performance and productivity, yet in trusted working conditions that rewards fairly and reconginzes performancve and skills in a transparent way. A fair and broad-based definition of moonlighting must be included in the employment contract. A sound HR policy anchored in ethical management principles will ensure that there is no need to howl at moon-lightining.

The practice of working for one organization while also taking up extra responsibilities and job with another requires. 

A. Trust
B. Conflict of interest.
C. Stagnation of employee growth.
D. Employees adding limited value to their parent organization.
E. Intellectual property rights.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.

Correct Answer: (a) A, B, E only
Solution:

The practice of working for one organization while also taking up extra responsibilities and job with another requires trust, conflict of Interest and Intellectual property rights.

92. Given below are two statements

Statement I: The practice of moonlighting is increasing because IT professionals are not being rewarded fairly.
Statement II: The contents of employee contract have preciscly defined the moonlighting.
In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below.

Correct Answer: (b) Both Statement I and Statement II are incorrect.
Solution:

Both statement I and statement II are incorrect.

93. As per the given passage, those employees who could not meet the skill gap were.

Correct Answer: (d) Discharged
Solution:

As per the given passage, those employees who could not meet the kill gag were discharged.

94. Moonlighting encourages.

A. Commitment for the organization.
B. Flexibility to employees.
C. Adding skills.
D. Employee turnover rate.
E. Work from home.
Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below.

Correct Answer: (d) B, C, E only
Solution:

Moonlighting encourages flexibility to employees, Adding skills, work from home etc.

95. The practice of 'moonlighting' is.

Correct Answer: (c) Adds value to the organization
Solution:

As per passage the practice of moonlighting adds value to the organization.

96. The factor adversely affecting Indian aviation is.

Correct Answer: (c) Declining value of rupee against US
Solution:

The factor adversely affecting Indian aviation is "Declining value of rupee against US Dollar".

97. The future of Indian aviation industry is likely to be.

Correct Answer: (a) Favourable
Solution:

The future of Indian aviation industry is likely to be favourable.

98. Given below are two statements: One is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as Reason (R).

Assertion (A): Pandemic is not the only reason for the losses in the aviation industry
Reason (R): Large number of technical reasons have resulted into the cancellation of flights.
In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below.

Correct Answer: (a) Both (A) and (R) are correct and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
Solution:

Pandemic is not the only reason for the losses in the aviation industry because large number of technical reasons have resulted into the cancellation of flights.

99. Which one of the following will impair the competitive intensity of the industry?

Correct Answer: (a) Capital infusion
Solution:

Capital infusion is impairing the competitive intensity of the industry.

100. Which of the following are the initiatives taken by the Government to promote aviation industry?

A. Big budget for decongesting airports.
B. Encouraging domestic aircraft maintenance industry.
C. Capital infusion to expand capacity.
D. Reducing the permissible list of defective equipment.
E. Removal of airfare caps.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.

Correct Answer: (b) A, B, E only
Solution:

The initiatives taken by the Government to promote aviation industry are as follows-
• Big budget for decongesting airports.
• Encouraging domestic aircraft maintenance industry.
• Removal of airfare caps.