decesion making for xat
Contents
I. INTRODUCTION
II. THE CASE STUDY
III. THE FIVE-STEP PROCESS
IV. THE WALKTHROUGH
V. SOLVED EXAMPLES
A. INDIVIDUAL QUESTIONS FROM XAT 2008
B. GROUPED QUESTION FROM XAT 2008
C. GROUPED QUESTIONS FROM XAT 2009
VI. REASONS BEHIND ELIMINATING OPTIONS
VII. PRACTICAL VS. IDEAL
Decision Making
I. INTRODUCTION
The Analytical Reasoning section in the XAT exam has a typical question type called decision making. The questions feature word-based case studies as opposed to mathematical and logical sets of the past years. The decision making process involves a different kind of logic- not the rule based logic applied to solve logical reasoning sets but a logic that helps us make actual practical decisions in work or business.
This question type presents a hypothetical question related to a hypothetical situation. It gives a set of options that represent the various methods in which the problem can be resolved. The nature of the case study may vary from ethics to business processes, but at the end, a decision has to be made that takes care of all aspects of the problem posed by the situation.
Here is an example of such a case study taken from the XAT 2008 exam:
II. THE CASE STUDY
“Seema was a finance manager in an MNC and felt that gender discrimination at the workplace hampered her career growth. Frustrated, she quit the job and started a new company. While starting her company, she decided that she would have equal proportion of males and females. Over the last six years, Seema emerged as a very successful entrepreneur and expanded her business to eight locations in the country. However, Seema recently started facing an ethical dilemma because she realized that female employees were not willing to travel across cities and work late hours, as the work required them to do so. Male employees did not hesitate undertaking such work. Seema started to feel the pressure of reducing the proportion of female employees. On the other hand, she
I. INTRODUCTION
II. THE CASE STUDY
III. THE FIVE-STEP PROCESS
IV. THE WALKTHROUGH
V. SOLVED EXAMPLES
A. INDIVIDUAL QUESTIONS FROM XAT 2008
B. GROUPED QUESTION FROM XAT 2008
C. GROUPED QUESTIONS FROM XAT 2009
VI. REASONS BEHIND ELIMINATING OPTIONS
VII. PRACTICAL VS. IDEAL
Decision Making
I. INTRODUCTION
The Analytical Reasoning section in the XAT exam has a typical question type called decision making. The questions feature word-based case studies as opposed to mathematical and logical sets of the past years. The decision making process involves a different kind of logic- not the rule based logic applied to solve logical reasoning sets but a logic that helps us make actual practical decisions in work or business.
This question type presents a hypothetical question related to a hypothetical situation. It gives a set of options that represent the various methods in which the problem can be resolved. The nature of the case study may vary from ethics to business processes, but at the end, a decision has to be made that takes care of all aspects of the problem posed by the situation.
Here is an example of such a case study taken from the XAT 2008 exam:
II. THE CASE STUDY
“Seema was a finance manager in an MNC and felt that gender discrimination at the workplace hampered her career growth. Frustrated, she quit the job and started a new company. While starting her company, she decided that she would have equal proportion of males and females. Over the last six years, Seema emerged as a very successful entrepreneur and expanded her business to eight locations in the country. However, Seema recently started facing an ethical dilemma because she realized that female employees were not willing to travel across cities and work late hours, as the work required them to do so. Male employees did not hesitate undertaking such work. Seema started to feel the pressure of reducing the proportion of female employees. On the other hand, she