As a newly started organization in the IT sector

• XAT Decision Making

Analyse the following caselete and answer the question that follows:

As a newly started organization in the IT sector, Saksha IT is a fast growing 400 employee organization. Its head, Saksha Kumar believes in building an organization driven by humility. Which of the following policies would best help him achieve that?

1. Employees shall, in their annual evaluation form, be asked to acknowledge three of their shortcomings, overcoming which will make them better.
2. Employees shall be asked to share with their peers three shortcomings they had noticed about their peers.
3. The immediate superiors would suggest three shortcomings their subordinates have to work on in a given period.
4. Everyone beginning with Saksha, shall be asked to share three of their weaknesses, in a public forum.
5. Employees shall be asked to overcome three shortcomings in the following year. Improvement, if noticed would attract rewards.

Answer

Humility means the quality of having a modest or low view of one's importance. Humility is the quality of not being proud of being perfect as you are aware of your limitations.

Therefore, among the options, the option that focuses on awareness of the self with respect to limitations should be in the consideration set for the correct answer. However, the focus on awareness of self is not necessarily linked to improvement overcoming the limitations. Moreover, the culture of humility should not be confused with the performance measurement or rewards and compensation.

Among the options, Option D focuses on making one aware of one self without any link with rewards or performance.

The correct option is D.