Question $18(1$ point$)$

Jeff Craddock is a plant supervisor for Made Right Wood Products Inc., which makes both standardized and customized signs out of solid wood and wood veneers. Over the past few years, the firm has grown steadily and now employs more than $200$ people working two shifts. Keeping employees motivated, however, is a constant challenge for both Craddock and production manager Marie Horowitz. Both try hard to apply motivational techniques that they learned in college, encountered in local workshops, and discovered during the course of on$-$the$-$job training. Made Right, it seems, has a higher percentage of single parents and older workers than the industry average, and that fact seems to be one of the problems: More workers ask for time off to do things with their children, and older employees visit a lot of doctors. As elsewhere, tardiness and absenteeism also cut into production efficiency. Craddock and Horowitz are once again rethinking possible approaches to employee motivation.

Four recent and well$-$qualified job hires have asked to cut back from $40$ to $20$ hours per week. Although Made Right typically hires part$-$time workers only during seasonal rush periods, Horowitz wants to accommodate these employees. What's her best option?

Job sharing

Compressed work weeks

Temp workers

Telecommuting