The vice-president of administration at your company wonders whether employees a
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The vice-president of administration at your company wonders whether employees are taking adequate amounts of vacation time. Employee burnout is a concern. Research suggests that an employee taking less than 1.4 weeks of vacation annually is very likely to experience burnout. You are asked to analyze the employee vacation data and conduct a hypothesis test with the following results:
t = 2.93
p = 0.0084
What factors should the vice-president consider in determining the presence of employee burnout?
Do employees take more than 1.4 weeks of vacation?
What reasons should the vice-president provide to the president to justify the recommendation on employee burnout?
Based on the data, is the presence of employee burnout an issue that may negatively impact the company?
Explanation / Answer
Vice persident should declare awrds, bonuses, team outings etc to keep the employees moral high. Vice president can make a policy that if employee will take vactions less than 1.4 weeks , employee will get extra credit for that. This will keep the employees refresh and motivated. But vice president should keep in mind, that all this will low the risk of burnout, not elimintae the risk.
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Since p-value of the test is less than 0.05 so we reject the null hypothesis. That is we can conclude that employees take more than 1.4 weeks of vacation. That is employees burnout is a concern.
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Vice president can give reason that there are less awards (either monetray or else).
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Yes, the presence of employee burnout is an issue that may negatively impact the company. Becuase as employee take vacations more than 1.4 week, work of company will suffer.
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