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Job analysis is a process to collect information about the duties, responsibilities, necessary skills, outcomes and work environment of a particular job.

a. Universal applicability. 

b. Flexible.

The ship and mariners faced a stage where everything came to a standstill. The ship stood stuck without any movement. The ship as well as the sea were immobile and appeared to be ‘painted’. The ‘very deep did rot’. It was a picture of decay and rot not only at the surface but in the very deep of the ocean too. The slimy things did crawl upon the muddy and sticky ocean. 

(a) No sweet bird did follow them because the ancient Mariner had killed the bird. 

(b) It was called so because it helped the ship to sail smoothly. 

(c) behind

The albatross came at a time when the ship and the mariners were stuck among the ice-bergs. The sweet bird came as a Christian soul. It brought a favourable south wind with it. The ship cleared through the ice-bergs. It was a symbol of life and warmth in a region where there were no signs of men or animals. But after the auspicious bird was killed by a senseless rush of blood that overpowered the old Mariner, things changed. Things suddenly headed towards stagnation and decay on a silent sea. No ‘sweet’ bird followed the ship now.

The old Mariner killed the innocent and auspicious albatross in a senseless fit or rush of blood. The good south wind still blew behind. But no ‘sweet bird’ followed the ship and the mariners. It didn’t come either for food or play to the mariners’ call. The ship was heading towards the silent sea where it will be stuck in the middle of the sea.

Main contributions of scientific management lie in specialization in management, progressive wages system, and responsibility and scientific distribution of task.

Equipment, time, situation of work, resources, etc. are the factors considered for standardization.

Rule of thumb means solving industrial problem by personal judgement of the owner or management instead of scientific method.

(a) anxiety.

(b) the sea.

(c) the Ancient Mariner.

(d) Alliteration.

(a) the Ancient Mariner had killed the bird.

(b) it helped the ship to sail smoothly.

(c) call.

(d) Alliteration

Education of employees, skills, guts, physical strength, and training are some of the factors to be considered for selection of workers based on scientific standards.

Fredrick Taylor was an American mechanical engineer who became a manager in Bethlehem Steel Company. He is known as the father of scientific management.

(a) there was a large volume of water.

(b) intense heat.

(c) there is water everywhere yet sailors can’t drink it.

(d) abab.

The thought process of owners is optimization of profit and wealth whereas, that of employees is higher wages and job satisfaction.

Correct option is (b) Strategic business units

Correct option is (d) Reaction control

Correct option is (b) Replacement planning

Most of the Public sector undertakings Recruitment boards supply applications forms for selection of jobs. In this form, the candidate fill the details about family background, educational qualifications, experience, cocurricular activities.

Placement is a process of assigning a specific job to each and every candidate selected. It includes initial assignment of new employees and promotion, transfer or demotion of present employees.

Principles of management provide guidelines to managers to perform task in different situations. This leads to improved functioning of a business unit and gain in managerial efficiency.

Micronutrients are required in small quantities by plants.

e.g.: Iron, Boran, Manganese, Zinc etc.

This type of interview is conducted to test the temperament and emotional balance of the candidate interviewed. Interviewer deliberately creates stressful situation and tries to assess the suitability of the candidate by observing his reaction and response to the stressful situations.

Over usage of insecticides, fungicides, weedicides, pesticides lead to soil pollution, water pollution and hazardous to biodiversity.

Agriculture officers advise farmers to cultivate dryland crops in fewer water areas

Where a group of people interview the candidate, it is called panel interview. Usually panel comprises chair person, subject expert, psychological experts, representatives of minorities/ underprivileged groups, nominees of higher bodies and so on. All panel members ask different types of questions on general areas of specialization of the candidate.

Synthetic pyrethroids: Chemicals used to control pests on crops. 

E. g.: Pesticides, insecticides.

Food Chain: Describes the linear sequence of organisms which represent their preypredator relationship in the ecosystem.

Leguminous plants with root nodules supply nitrogen to the plant.

Nutrients are replenished with crop rotation, adding organic manure or chemical fertilizers.

Soil testing centre: Tests the soil and give us knowledge about the soil.

Macronutrients: Nutrients required ¡n large quantities by plants. 

E.g.: Nitrogen, Phosphorous and Potassium.

Ecology: It is the scientific study ¡n which plants, animals and people are related to each other and the environment.

Organic manure is produced by decaying plant and animal wastes.

Micronutrients: Nutrients required in small quantities by plants. 

E.g.: Iron, Manganese, Boron, Zinc, Copper, Molybdenum etc.

Replenish: To fill something again put new supplies into something. 

Irrigation: To supply land or crops with water.

Mixed Crops: Cultivation of more than one crop in the same field.

Irrigated farming: Supplying water to land or crops is called irrigated farming.

Crop rotation: It is the process in which one crop is followed by another crop on an agricultural field. 

E.g.: After cultivation of Paddy, Black gram or Groundnut has to be grown followed by paddy again.

Rabi Crop: Agricultural crops sown in winter and harvested in the summer season. 

E.g.: Wheat, barley, sesame etc.

Kharif Crop: Crop refers to the planting, cultivation and harvesting of any domesticated plant sown in the rainy (monsoon) season. 

E.g.: Paddy, Sugarcane, Maize etc.

(A) Telangana

Producing a variety of crops, as well as an increase in production, can be possible in a mixed crop system.

Alternating crops preserve soil fertility.

(D) Bharatha

The production of a crop depends on 

• the kind of seeds planted, 
• the properties of the soil, 
• the availability and proper application of irrigation and fertilizers, 
• the weather, controlling insect attacks, 
• the growth of weeds and so on.

Answer is (A) 1943

Many are forced to use recorded music in dance performances to keep costs down.

Kuchipudi is a group form of dance-drama from Kuchipudi, a village in Andhra Pradesh.