SECTION C: GRAMMAR [20 MARKS]
Question I Error Identification
For questions 1 to 10, identify the underlined options that are INCORRECT. Choose the option that contains an error concerning the following aspects: run-ons, sentence fragments, parallelism or faulty modifiers.
1.A diverse workforce brings a fresh and necessary perspective to business it is also
critical to have a leadership team who understands the value of employing people from multiple backgrounds.
2.Card-linked marketing continues to be more useful for all parties because digital technology advances have exponentially expanded the world of commerce. Providing new tools for reaching and engaging consumers.
3.Economists find infusions of venture capital funding do not necessarily foster entrepreneurship, capital is more mobile than labour, and funding naturally flows to those areas where creative and potentially profitable ideas are being generated.
4.Customer journey mapping can be a very helpful tool in learning what customers are trying to accomplish, and understanding the path that they take to achieve their goals.
5.Accurate feedback critical to all coaching engagements, but it is exponentially more
important when dealing with an executive who has limited time to demonstrate positive change in his or her approach to work and people.
6.A study, titled “Diversity and Inclusion”, found that two in five HR professionals
create retention strategies that are specifically designed to retain a diverse workforce,
which included responses from nearly 300 randomly selected HR professionals.
7.All monetarists emphasized the undesirability of combating inflation by
non-monetary means. Such as wage and price controls or guidelines , because these would create market distortions.
8.Mobile is hugely important for email, and it presents an incredible opportunity because companies can reach their subscribers anywhere and anytime, this opportunity, however, comes with new responsibilities.
9.More recent examples of mostly very high inflation have occurred in Latin America
and former Eastern bloc nations where together they experienced an average annual
inflation rate of 121 percent between 1970 and 1987.
10.Coaching employees and giving them feedback are critical management skills; when
performed well, coaching and feedback help drive employee performance,
development and engaging them.
Question IIError Analysis (10 marks)
Instructions:The following extract contains 11 errors in sentence fragments, run-ons,
parallelisms and faulty modifiers. Identify 10 errors and correct them as shown in the
example. The first error is stated as the example.
Navigational listening is the most powerful tool for influencing others and
create transformation. This highest and most expansive form of listening engages us
with others in a spirit of co-creation.
Many of us fall into listening patterns that stop us from engaging deeply with others. Instead, we become addicted to being right and entrenched in positional thinking. Defending what we believe without acknowledging other perspectives. By trapping us in thoughts from the past and locking us into conflicts, these habit patterns prevent us from generating new thinking and connecting with others in authentic, personal, power, and co-creative ways.
The listening mind is never blank or impartial. What we hear is influenced by
our history. Like events, relationships, and experiences, as well as by our physical and
emotional states. Feeling tired, angry, or stressful predisposes us to selective listening.
Besides, the speaker’s voice, dress, demeanour, mood, appearance or attitude can
affect what we hear, we may be so preoccupied with external things that we don’t listen
at all.
There are three levels or types of conversations, each with its own purpose, and each requires its own pattern of listening. The first level is Inform.
This transactional conversation involves an exchange of information the goal is to confirm what you know and to align your meaning with others. There is a give and take of information as people share and confirm them. When falling into Face-valueListening, interpretation is confused with fact. Rather than informing each other and confirming what we each know and validating our information, which then opens the door for conflict and misunderstanding, we add our assumptions and interpretations by architecting two different views of reality.
The second level isPersuade. This positional conversation involves an exchange of power. The goal is to defend what you know and believe. We advocate our positions and inquire into others positions with the intention of influencing and persuade them to our point of view—opening the space for resistance, conflict and manipulation.
The third level is Co-Create. This transformational conversation involves an exchange of energy. The goal to explore each other’s viewpoint, to acknowledge it, to live in it, and to learn from it. In this state of mind, we are open to influence, to expand our view of what is possible, and to allow for generative thinking with others—cocreating conversations.
1.According to the International Telecommunication Union, the number
of mobile phone subscriptions will overtake in 2014 the number of human beings.
2.As one of the world’s leading agriculture companies. Synmgenta is committed to helping farmers across the world to raise yields while conserving water, soil and ecosystems.
3.If the federal government continues the positive steps to promote manufacturing
jobs with tax breaks and credits, employers should be encouraged to pay higher starting salaries and good benefits must be provided.
4.Time spent in meetings has been rising by 8 per cent to 10 per cent annually since 2000, it is likely to continue increasing.
5.A new study reveals that many factory jobs nowadays pay far less than what workers in almost identical positions earned in the past by the National employment Law Project.
6.Manufacturing remains vital to the economy because it spurs innovation and leads to higher-paying, value-added jobs like design and marketing. It is also a major source of productivity gains, as well as generate profits and exports for many
companies.
7.The increased use of these lower-paid workers, particularly on the assembly line,
not only eats into the number of industry jobs available, but also a ripple effect on
full-time, regular workers.
8.The unemployment rate has fallen to 5.9 per cent, a six-year low economists predict that the job report will show almost 20,000 new jobs to be available in October, but the unemployment rate is projected to hold steady.
9.The management of the last Commonwealth Games were memorable only for
Unfinished facilities and disgruntled athletes, held in Delhi 2010.
10.When creating the department’s vision. The theme should be in alignment with
the overall vision and mission of the organisation.
Booking a flight used to be such a simple affair if you could not afford business
or first class, you took your chance down the back in an economy seat. At least cattle
class was the same that is changing as airlines seek ever more ways to earn incremental
revenue. As new aircrafts are delivered in 2014, some seats will be getting bigger and
plush even in the economy cabin, and it will be at the expense of squeezing more
people into the cheapest seats.
Airlines have found that some passengers are prepared to pay a bit more to
secure a nicer seat in the standard-economy cabin, it could mean a less-crowded seat
or one where there is a bit more leg room near an emergency exit. Airbus is offering
airlines which are shopping for new planes an option to have extra-wide 20-inch
(51cm) aisle seats in its single-aisle A320 aircraft. However, the adjacent middle and
window seats, however, would lose an inch, reducing them to a width of 17 inches. In
part, this to accommodate wider posteriors which has become a growing problem. In
addition, it is also a way for carriers to boost revenue by charging more for wider aisleseats.
Seats have generally got smaller. In frame if not in width. With new materials
and manufacturing techniques, these lighter and skinnier seats can be just as
comfortable as the older, thickly padded ones, says Kent Craver, who markets seats
and interiors for Boeing. A few airlines are using the space. Gained by slimmer seats
to pack even more rows into the economy cabin. In 2014, some new aircraft will also
have some smaller lavatory cubicles, to make room for additional economy seats.
Mr Craver’s research shows that if travellers are asked what they would like
to improve in the economy cabin, most prefer more comfortable and seats which are
spacious. However, when the same passengers are asked how much they would be
prepared to pay for them, the answer is usually “not a dime”. In some cases, passengers
may not have any choice but to pay more. More airlines who might encroach on a
neighbouring seat will introduce policies for larger passengers. It is unlikely, though,
that airlines will follow the example of Samoa Air, which operates from a country
where many people are rather large. Samoa Air now requires anyone booking a flight
with them to give their weight, passengers are then charged by the kilo and seats
removed from the aircraft if necessary to fit everybody in. All these new seating
arrangements coming in 2014 mean that paying to pick your seats will become a more
complicated business in advance. What are the worst seats you could end up with?
Middle row at the back of an MD-80 next to the leaking toilets.
