Self-study
Psychologists have found that the implementation of policies allowing work schedules to be tailored to individuals' needs does not typically increase managers' job satisfaction or their efficiency—although this may be because most managers already have the autonomy to adjust their own schedules. ███ █████ █████████████████ ████████ ██ ████████ ███ █████████████ █████████████ ███ ██████████ █████ █████████████ ██████████ ███ ████████ █████████ ████████ ████ █████ ████████ ███ ████ ███ ███████ ████ ███████ ██ █████████ ███ ███ ████████
Summary
Psychologists have discovered that allowing flexible work schedules does not cause managers’ job satisfaction or efficiency to increase. These flexible schedules do cause job satisfaction, productivity, and attendance to increase among nonmanagerial employees. However, these benefits decrease over time and are reduced even further if schedules are too flexible.
Strongly Supported Conclusions
The benefits of flexible work schedule policies are better observed among nonmanagerial employees than among managers.
18.
Which one of the following ██████████ ██ ████ █████████ ██ ███ ███████████ ██████
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We don’t know if flexible schedules would in fact increase satisfaction and efficiency among managers. We can’t assume that the explanation given for why managers don’t reflect these benefits is true, it is only suggested as one possible explanation.
b
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We don’t know if flexible schedule policies would not improve the overall morale of a company. We could reasonable assume that overall morale would improve if the morale of the nonmanagerial workforce improves.
c
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We don’t know if flexible schedule policies improve satisfaction in the long run. We are told that the benefits of these policies decrease over time.
d
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We don’t know if there is in fact little correlation between these two ideas. The explanation offered for why managers don’t experience increased job satisfaction or efficiency is only one possible explanation.
e
The typical benefits ██ █████████████████ ████████ ██████ ██ ████████ ████████ ████ ████████████ ██ ███ ███████ ██ ████ ████████ ██ █████████
The effects of flexible schedule policies cannot be observed among managers because these managers did not experience an increase in job satisfaction or efficiency. On the other hand, nonmanagerial employees did see increases in these areas.