Question

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Assignment Overview:

Directions:

Read each prompt option carefully and choose one option to respond to.

Your response should address the prompt’s question in a well-organized, multi-paragraph format.

Include detailed explanations to support your answer.

Your response should be professional in language and tone.

Your response should be approximately 2-3 paragraphs or 450-600 words.

Option 1:

Your company has always had a flexible break policy. Each employee is allowed to take a total of 90 minutes (or an hour and a half) of break time daily. Employees can decide how they use that time. Some examples of break time use are

Three 30-minute breaks

One 60-minute (or one hour) lunch break and a separate 30-minute break

One 60-minute (or one hour) lunch break and two 15-minute breaks

One long 90-minute (or hour and a half) lunch break, with no other breaks during the day

The human resources manager has stated some concern in the flexibility of the break policy because sometimes, multiple employees take 90-minute lunch breaks at the same time, and there is not enough support for work production during that time. He has proposed changing the policy to require all employees to take a 60-minute lunch break and two 15-minute breaks. Before making the change official, however, he has asked for employees to provide their preferences on how break times should be used.

Write an email to the human resources manager expressing your opinion about the break time policy.

Option 2:

In job interviews, it is common for the interviewer to ask questions to determine how applicants would handle hypothetical situations. These behavioral questions help the interviewer to better understand the applicants’ abilities, including problem-solving, customer service, and teamwork skills. They also require applicants to think on their feet, as they must explain how they would handle the situation in a way that demonstrates their abilities and persuades the interviewer that they are well-suited for the position.

Imagine you are interviewing for your dream job, and the interviewer asks you this question: You are working on a major project and are halfway finished. You realize that you’ve made a huge mistake, and now you must start the project over to fix it. However, you have a very tight deadline to meet. How would you handle this situation?

Write your answer to this interview question.

Answer 1

Break policies vary company to company and are mostly customized as per business requirements, overall keeping a 9- 9:30 hours of work window. Scheduled break time of 1 hours 30 minutes only gets utilized as per the needs of the employees at work, sometimes not even having any break atal if there is too much work pressure, or the reverse, i.e sometimes being mostly away from the workstation adding up to the break time. With the HR manager having proposed the new pattern of 60-15-15 ratio of break minutes, as am employee who has to look at it otherwise, the following email can sum the addressed issues :

            Hi,

This Is in order to bring to your notice and address the issues that I personally feel as an employee working in the mid day shift that should be brought into consideration before implementing the rule.

The pattern of a one hour break followed by two 15 mins mini breaks is fine as far as the shifts are concerned who have the Lunch or dinner time during their working hours. However, in a mid day shift, where I happen to log-in post having lunch at home and also log out before the Dinner time and have my meal once I reach back home, the 1 hour break doesn’t suffice my need to break out. I rather need small breaks at intervals since it also helps in motivating to go for a walk once in a while or talk to someone over the phone and have some snacks. Though this email completely refers to my needs, I would also like to ventilate the facts of people around who have small kids at home or aged people, or have health issues, need breaks more in number to span. Small breaks all throughout the 9 hours suffice the purpose more than having one long stretched break.

Having said this, I state that there is also a need to adhere strictly to not crossing the 15 mins bar in each short break and agree not to extend the breaks resulting in longer than allowed span of break.

I think a proper coordination within the team members and having a mental roaster set in to be able to go on break one after the other and not simultaneously at a time, should be helpful towards making the process flow all smooth without having more of system inactivity and have the pace of work be up and RUNNING.

Look forward to your take on the same.

Regards,

XYZ

Option 2:

Having a situation of a deadline ahead and also realizing the mistake committed, I will try bringing in all the other project resources into confidence and discuss a way out with all because its any day true that flaws can be mitigated with effort of more people in case of a time constraint and also the labor required will be optimum when given into with more number of heads than a single person.

On a more formal note, I will be taking down the loopholes in a descriptive way by identifying and having them documented, conduct a formal discussion with my manager, address and admit where I have been wrong, call for a meeting involving all the team members and leave it to their brainstorming to seek a solution, thereby having the plan designed to be out of the danger zone and then having the best of solutions on table, have a plan layout and implement the same within time post all tests and checks to prevent any further anolalies.