Question

(1) Do managers like Janis Blancero face a more complicated decision when evaluating the personal requests of employees versus evaluating employees' individual work performance? Explain. (2) (a) Should Adobe establish a policy for granting flexible work schedules? Explain. (b) If you answered yes, what might that policy contain? (3) If you were Janis Blancero, how would you resolve this dilemma? Explain.

Answer 1

Do managers like Janis Blancero face a more complicated decision when evaluating the personal requests of employees versus evaluating employees' individual work performance? Explain.

Blancero faces a more complicated decision when she is evaluating the personal requests of employees than evaluating work performance. Unlike the work performance evaluation, there are no regulated roles on the flexible scheduling and time-off, so she does not know which situation she should consider as a priority.

It is complicated decision when evaluating the personal requests of employees versus their individual work performance. Providing employees with a flexible working schedule is one of the best ways that organizations can ensure that the staff members have a work-life balance. Though the provision of work-life balance according to the legislation requirements has been seen to be of benefit to organizations, mangers experience challenges concerning the provision of workplace flexibility. This is the kind of dilemma that Janis Blancero the Marketing director of Adobe Consulting Services (ACS), faces. ACS offers highly attractive benefits packages that include the provision of friendly and family flexibility of work schedule for elder and child care assistance, adoption assistance, parental leave and counseling services. The company has experienced a major backlash in its policy as more and more employees are requesting for reduced working hours as well as extensions of maternity leaves. The main reasons that Janis has been given by the employees include a time to care for children, undisguised personal reasons, accommodation of training schedules and extension of family leaves. These special privileges that the employees are requesting are a big challenge to their productivity in the workplace and also failure to adequately meet with the customers’ demands.