Developing Contributory Skills – III — Winter 2020

Communication skills 5. When meeting new people, your main aim should be to –

Talk about your career aims and interests

Obtain their business cards so that you can easily get in touch with them later on

Get to know people and build a degree of either social or professional rapport with them

Choose the correct answer from the multiple choices. 1. What is Contingency Planning?

Developing responses in advance for various situations that might impact a business.

Describing the impact of economic changes on a company, and defines how they should react to a decrease in sales.

Aplan local governments create that explains what they will do if a business declares bankruptcy.

Aplan that describes features a customer may wish to order, and how they impact the price of the purchase. 2. What is the main aim of networking?

To make as many sales as possible

To use people to your advantage

To create a mutually beneficial relationship

To ask people for favours to advance your business 3. Contingency plan to meet environmental pressure is

Objective

Strategies

Policies

Rules 4. What one of the following is not a key management skill in planning?

Conceptual skills

Analytical skills

IT and computing skills

Ask them plenty of questions so that you can later figure out how best to use the information you have discovered for your career benefit 6. Which of the following is not a likely benefit of building your profile?

Business associates may on occasion be able to offer you a job directly

Business associates may sometimes be able to share information with you that allows you to do your job better

Business associates may be able to exert pressure on your line manager to increase your salary

Business associates may be willing to put you in touch with recruiters and other people who are looking to hire someone like you 7. Design Thinking is:

Thinking about design

Designing ways in which people think

Asking users to solve problems

Defining, framing and solving problems from users' perspectives 8. What are the steps of Design Thinking Process?

Understand > Draw > Ideate > Create > Test

Empathise > Define > Ideate > Prototype > Test

Empathise > Design > Implement > Produce > Test

Understand > Define > Ideate > Produce > Try 9. Design Thinking typically helps in _______

Innovation

Data analytics

Financial planning

Operational efficiency 10. Design Thinking starts with_______.

Sketching or prototyping with craft materials

Sticky notes or notecards

Empathy and an understanding of human needs

Identifying solutions for your problem 11. socially responsible mutual fund will only purchase stocks in companies that

have a no-smoking policy in place

have a culturally diverse management team

hire some job candidates who are HIV positive

have good social performance. 12. What are the three pillars of sustainability, according to the triple bottom line accounting framework?

People, planet, profit.

People, social, profit.

People, financial, income.

Income, planet, expenses. 13. The human activity, among the following, which causes maximum environmental pollution having regional and global impacts, is:

Urbanization

Industrialisation

Agriculture

Mining 14. . Social, economic and ecological equity is the necessary condition for achieving

Social development

Economic development

Sustainable development

Ecological development

Does design thinking work with all subject areas? Justify with examples

A School needs focussed tablets to be given to students. Give general steps for design thinking for this.