Necessity for Personal Growth Determines High Performance in a Work Environment

Question: Necessity for personal growth determines high performance in a work environment through multidimensional factors such as satisfaction with work, co-workers, management, career growth prospects in both short and long term, and employers’ vision and mission leading to organisational out-performance. However, people who have no such necessity for growth end up with low performance bordering around devious ways of going up the ladder by means other than merit such as sycophancy etc. The need for personal growth is therefore an essential part of one’s career.

Which of the following strengthens the argument?

1. Work environment is the most essential feature of an organization’s progress
2. The organization as driven by its desire to achieve its vision and mission is the most important factor of organizational behavior
3. Organizational goals are more important than personal goals for an organization through which they flourish
4. Charity begins at home in organizations too.
5. Low performers are known devils who can be easily weeded out.

Necessity for Personal Growth Determines High Performance in a Work Environment – is a GMAT Critical reasoning question. This particular GMAT Critical Reasoning topic has been taken from the book ‘ Kaplan's "GMAT Prep Plus 2022-2023"’. This is a strengthen the argument type question. In this particular topic, candidates need to choose the option that best suits the passage. GMAT critical reasoning tests the logical and analytical skills of the candidates. This topic requires candidates to find the strengths and weaknesses of the argument, or find the logical flaw in the argument.  The GMAT CR section contains 10 -13 GMAT critical reasoning questions out of 36 GMAT verbal questions.

Answer: D
Solution and Explanation:
We are looking for something that is implied in the argument. In case it is wrong or maybe disable the argument.

Let's go through the assumptions that suit the most with the given argument:

1. Work environment is the most essential feature of an organization’s progress – The argument is about one’s personal growth in one’s career. This choice talks about the organization's progress. Hence this is an irrelevant option.
2. The organization as driven by its desire to achieve its vision and mission is the most important factor of organizational behavior – This is excluding the individual altogether, without whom there may not exist an organization. This option is not correct.
3. Organizational goals are more important than personal goals for an organization through which they flourish – This is again focusing on the organization. Hence this is out of scope.
4. Charity begins at home in organizations too. – ‘This is substantiated by the axiom referred to above. What holds good for society at large is also true in organizations. This is the correct option.
5. Low performers are known devils who can be easily weeded out. – The question is talking about outperformers and not low performers – Out of scope option.

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