Workforce Verbal Reasoning Past Questions and Answers


While most forms of discrimination in the workplace have been outlawed, discrimination or bias against some employees seeking career advancement still happens. This discrimination is both unwritten and unacknowledged. A „glass ceiling? is the term used to describe this type of discrimination and refers to the invisible barrier that people hit when they try to progress beyond a certain level in some businesses and organisations. Originally coined to illustrate the hidden use of sexual discrimination against women in professional environments, it is now used to
describe any form of discrimination, such as racism or ageism, which prevents qualified or experienced employees reaching even basic levels within their organisation. Some reports and studies now suggest that change is happening and that cracks are beginning to appear in the glass. The studies also claim however that change is happening slowly and that the cracks are small.


96)

Males are less likely to experience the glass ceiling effect than females.

Answer: C


Explantion:

Cannot say - The third sentence tells us what the glass ceiling is and the fourth sentence tells us: ”Originally coined to illustrate the hidden use of sexual discrimination against women in professional environments, it is now used to describe any form of discrimination”. So if we know it covers all sorts of discrimination and the passage doesn?t go on to say if females are more likely to suffer than males, we cannot say for sure whether this statement is true or false, so we have to answer Cannot Say.
97)

There is no legislation covering discrimination at work so employers have to develop their own ways of preventing it.

Answer: B


Explantion:

False - The first sentence tells us that “most forms of discrimination in the workplace have been outlawed”. So even though not all forms of discrimination have been outlawed (made illegal), it is not true to say that no legislation exists.

The secret to success in business is entrepreneurial spirit at all levels of the company.
Employees who are identified as entrepreneurs in their own right are more motivated – their own financial success becomes integrated with the company's. Those who are oriented towards personal entrepreneurship will work long hours to develop their own tried-and-tested business practices and strategies, contributing as willing partners to the achievements of the company as a whole. Orientation and value-formation training can induce this kind of thinking in new staff
recruits, inculcating the notion of how quickly it is possible to achieve financial security through hard work and innovative business approaches, combined with the impression that to miss out on opportunities for such rapid economic and social advancement would be at best unwise and at worst catastrophic.


98)

Employees encouraged to think of themselves as entrepreneurs work fewer hours than other staff members.

Answer:C


Explantion:

Cannot say – while the passage states, “Those who are oriented towards personal entrepreneurship will work long hours”, therefore implying that the answer to this question should be 'false', there is no explicit comparison with other staff in either
direction, so no definite answer can be given.
99)

New staff members can be indoctrinated with the virtues of entrepreneurship.

Answer: A


Explantion:

True – the passage states that “this kind of thinking” - which refers directly to the personal entrepreneurship approach discussed in the first paragraph – can be induced through “Orientation and value-formation training”.
100)

Employees instilled with the idea of personal entrepreneurship will be less willing to contribute to the success of the company as a whole.

Answer: B


Explantion:

False – the passage states in fact that such employees will contribute “as willing partners to the achievements of the company.”

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