QUESTION 4(a)
GS4
10 marks
Attitude is an important component that goes as input in the development of human being. How to build a suitable attitude needed for a public servant?
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7 min
150 words
What the examiner wants
Explain how a suitable attitude for public service can be built.
Explain howAnswer exactly what the question asks.
Demand-wise check
- 1Attitude components: cognitive, affective, behavioural; attitudes formed by family, education, peers, experience≈30 words
- 2Needed attitudes: service orientation, empathy, objectivity, openness to change, accountability≈30 words
- 3Ways to build: training (Mission Karmayogi), field exposure, role models, reflection, feedback, rewards≈30 words
- 4Persuasion and cognitive dissonance as tools for change≈30 words
Open in about 20 words and close in about 20.
Answer plan
What attitude isWhich attitudes a public servant needsMethods to build themConclusion
Where marks usually go
- Only theory of attitude without 'how to build'
- No examples of training or exposure
Draw this
- ABC model of attitude with intervention arrows
Value addition
- ProgrammeLBSNAA's Bharat Darshan and district training expose probationers to field realities to shape attitude.LBSNAA
- TheoryFestinger's cognitive dissonance theory: people change attitudes to resolve conflict between belief and action.Leon Festinger, 1957
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- Shakti Dubey · AIR 1 · Page 23 ↗Same syllabus reference
- Vidushi Singh · AIR 13 · Page 5 ↗Same syllabus reference
- Aakash Garg · AIR 5 · Page 7 ↗Same syllabus reference
- Shakti Dubey · AIR 1 · Page 3 ↗Same syllabus reference
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