Multiple choice

When conventional management practices force plans, people, processes and decisions into frameworks that admit only rational considerations, the emotional side doesn't go away. It emerges as compliance - a downside mentality - and a short-term, just don't fail perspective. By changing the way they manage the initiative, executives can kindle the organization's energy for the upside too. This enables the organization to develop a commitment to success and to sustain it over the years it may take to achieve lasting results.

What is the underlying theme of the passage?

  1. By allowing an effective emotional flow, organizations may tap group passion.

  2. Emotion is the silent partner behind organizational success.

  3. The experience of choice adds creativity and energy to the organizational processes.

  4. Emotional field lies dormant in the network of informal industrial relations.
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Explanation

The passage states that compliance with the plans from above generates 'downside mentality'. The collective commitment to success (the emotion, not the rationale), the upside mentality, will help achieve lasting results.

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