Five sentences related to a topic are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a meaningful and coherent short paragraph. Identify the odd one out. Choose its number as your answer and key it in.
- One argument is that actors that do not fit within a single, well-defined category may suffer an “illegitimacy discount”.
- Others believe that complex identities confuse audiences about an organization’s role or purpose.
- Some organizations have complex and multidimensional identities that span or combine categories, while other organizations possess narrow identities.
- Identity is one of the most important features of organizations, but there exist opposing views among sociologists about how identity affects organizational performance.
- Those who think that complex identities are beneficial point to the strategic advantages of ambiguity, and organizations’ potential to differentiate themselves from competitors.
Explanation:
Statement 2 says that ‘others believe that complex identities…’. This statement suggests that there must be a similar but slightly contrary belief immediately in the sentence preceding sentence 2.
5 says complex identities are beneficial, while 2 says that complex identities confuse. Thus 5 and 2 form a pair.
4 introduces the idea of identity and thus becomes the opening sentence of the paragraph. Since 3 introduces the idea of ‘complex identities’, it must come before 52 pair.
Thus we have 4352 coming together to form a coherent paragraph. 1 is the odd one out.
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