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Fringe benefits includes ______________.

social science employment: growth, informalisation and other issues employment - trends and structure workers and employment sources of income

  1. Financial facility

  2. Housing

  3. Health

  4. All of these

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Correct Option: D

Employment Guarantee Scheme was first introduced in which of the following states?

social science employment: growth, informalisation and other issues employment - trends and structure workers and employment sources of income

  1. Odisha

  2. Maharashtra

  3. Punjab

  4. Uttar Pradesh

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Employment Guarantee Scheme was first introduced in Maharasthra in $1972-73$. The scheme was the first of its kind to give recognition to the 'right to work' enshrined in the constitution. It emboided a commitment by the state to provide work to a person who comes forward to offer labour.

Disguised unemployment in the agricultural sector of India exists due to the ______.

social science employment: growth, informalisation and other issues employment - trends and structure workers and employment sources of income

  1. dependence of agriculture on the monsoons

  2. abolition of zamindari

  3. heavy pressure of population on land

  4. absence of trade unions in the agriculture sector

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Dependency on agriculture is increasing day by day because of lack of alternative employment opportunities and burgeoning population resulting in disguised unemployment. In fact overcrowding and consequent pressure of population on land have led to the sub-division and fragmentation of holdings decline in area of land per capita and disguised employment in agriculture.

Which means deciding the value of the work done by the individual?

social science employment: growth, informalisation and other issues employment - trends and structure workers and employment sources of income

  1. Performance appraisal

  2. Task

  3. Action

  4. Reward

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Correct Option: A

The job redesign includes ________________.

social science employment: growth, informalisation and other issues employment - trends and structure workers and employment sources of income

  1. Provide task closure

  2. Person

  3. System

  4. Casting

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Correct Option: A

Critical incident method is a method of _____________.

social science employment: growth, informalisation and other issues employment - trends and structure workers and employment sources of income

  1. Performance appraisal

  2. Promotion

  3. Laws

  4. Market

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Correct Option: A

The code of Discipline was evolved at the Indian Labour Conference in _______.

social science employment: growth, informalisation and other issues employment - trends and structure workers and employment sources of income

  1. 1958

  2. 1961

  3. 1948

  4. 1921

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Correct Option: A

Job factors includes ____________.

social science employment: growth, informalisation and other issues employment - trends and structure workers and employment sources of income

  1. Suspension

  2. Wages

  3. Salary

  4. All of these

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Correct Option: D

_____________ is the process of negotiation between employers and the representatives of a unit of employees aimed at reaching agreements that regulate working conditions.

social science employment: growth, informalisation and other issues employment - trends and structure workers and employment sources of income

  1. Participation management

  2. Collective bargaining

  3. Code of conduct

  4. None of these

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Correct Option: B

Entrepreneurial ability is a special kind of labour that ___________.

social science employment: growth, informalisation and other issues employment - trends and structure workers and employment sources of income

  1. is hired out to firms at high wages

  2. organises the process of production

  3. produces new capital goods to earn interest

  4. manages to avoid losses by continual innovation

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Correct Option: B