The vicepresident of administration at your company wonders

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?

Provide detail analysis of questions with supporting work.

PLEASE PROVIDE A TEST HYPOTHESIS

Solution

1.

The employees need to be rewarded and motivated with appraisals and other incentives. The appraisals and rewards keep their motivation levels always high and the risk of burnout is avoided. The employee burnout is always a risk if there is no appraisal and recognition for hard work and performance.

2.

The value of p given in the question is 0.0084, if taken at a significance level of 5%, the hypothesis that “employee burnout is a serious problem” will be rejected. This means that at 5% significance employee burnout is not a serious problem that is being faced by the firm.

3.

Employee burnout in itself is a problem of stress and demotivated employees. The only way out may be to plan extra incentives, rewards, recreation facilities at workplace and leisure time activities. The employees may be motivated by providing them with an environment of cooperation, non-bias and approval. Recognition of hard work is a must.

Recognition and appreciation of employee is a must for keeping their moral high associated with monetary benefits, flexible timings.

4.

Employee burnout though is statistically insignificant, but may surely affect the productivity and environment of the company negatively.