Employer Questionnaire

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The most effective way to motivate employees is:

A: Bonuses, gifts and perks. 

B: Fear and intimidation.

 C: Competition and contests. 

D: Increased responsibilities.

E: Individual recognition and personal praise.

Other

The most effective way to manage employees is:

A: Delegating work and returning on the due date of the job. 

B: Quantifying every task and scheduling every minute of an employee's day for them.

 C: Keeping your hands off and only stepping in when needed. 

D: Walking around and gathering daily updates and helping to solve problems.

Overtime is usually caused by:

A: Executive - with an unrealistic or arbitrary deadline that sends a tsunami of panic all down the line. 

B: Manager - who doesn't push back or look ahead, promises too much, estimates time poorly, and mis-allocates resources.

 C: Client - who is late with content, or makes lots of changes, and demands that the original delivery date remains unchanged. 

D: Employee - who is too slow, or makes a big mistake that puts everything days behind, or just refuses to work evenings and weekends.

 E: Insufficient funds with which to hire the help needed to do the job correctly in the amount of time given.

When I bid on a rush job that I know will overtax my current staff of employees with excessive overtime, I: 

A: Bid outrageously high, so they will go somewhere else. 

B: Bid high, so that I will have plenty of money to hire some temp help.

 C: Bid high, so that I will have plenty of money to use as bonuses for the employees who suffer through this job. 

D: Bid normally, or low, because my company desperately needs the money.

When an idiotic client who hasn't a clue, jerks me around, I: 

A: Bend over and take it, because my company desperately needs the money.

 B: Politely tell them to take a hike and send them, and all their stupidity, to my competition!

 C: Attempt reason and compromise, and tack on more rush charges for every unreasonable demand that is met.

 D: Utilize employees who have been hired to stand between me and difficult clients.

When I get a huge profit from a difficult client who has just paid my outrageous rush charges, I: 

A: Hand out bonuses to everyone who suffered at the hands of this unfortunate client, so they feel like it was worth it.

 B: Make a deposit in the bank like always, to be invested in the company eventually. 

C: Use it to pay off personal expenses.

 D: Set it aside to cover the lean times.

An idiotic client is: 

A: Money in the bank (money is money). 

B: A necessary evil (what can you do?).

 C: An opportunity to demonstrate our professionalism (and show them we are the best).

 D: To be avoided at all cost (it's not worth the strain on my valued employees who might quit as a result of their abuse).

An idiotic client who disrupts everyone and everything with unreasonable demands and panicky deadlines is:

A: Good for business (because I can charge them a lot).

 B: Bad for business (because they screw up the schedules of all my reasonable clients). 

C: Good for morale (because a good crisis pulls people together and promotes teamwork). 

D: Bad for morale (because they take years off the life-span of each employee).

Some people stay late and put in lots of overtime at work because:

A: They are dedicated to the company and client and want to make sure everything gets done on time. 

B: They are incompetent and need twice as many hours to do the same amount of work a competent employee does in a regular day. 

C: They spend all day goofing off and socializing, so the only way they get anything done is when everyone goes home and they are alone.

 D: All are potentially true.

People hate their jobs because:

A: They are fundamentally lazy and don't want to work.

 B: They don't feel empowered in the workplace.

 C: They don't feel appreciated. 

D: They are not treated in a fair and reasonable manner. 

E: They have too many responsibilities and not nearly enough control to manage effectively.

 F: They project their personal problems onto their job and boss as a way of venting hostility.