Purchase Solution

Smokers and Low Productivity

Not what you're looking for?

Ask Custom Question

It has been said that employees who smoker cost companies money due to absenteeism and healthcare cost and are less productive than non-smokers. Therefore, please advise of 4 causes of the problem and four solutions.

Also please provide specific information and training guidelines on how to accomplish the solution with step by step guidelines.

Purchase this Solution
Solution Summary

The solution examines if smokers have low productivity.

Solution Preview

Hello:

Cause: Smokers take too many breaks to go smoke, which reduces productivity
Solution: Workers can only take 2 x 15 min breaks a day or else they will get a warning from their managers
How to accomplish the solution
- Managers need to keep a better eye on their employees, and monitor how often they leave their desks during the day.
- If they see that employees are taking more breaks due to smoking, then they need to start being proactive and putting a stop ...

Purchase this Solution
Free BrainMass Quizzes
Operations Management

This quiz tests a student's knowledge about Operations Management

Understanding the Accounting Equation

These 10 questions help a new student of accounting to understand the basic premise of accounting and how it is applied to the business world.

Balance Sheet

The Fundamental Classified Balance Sheet. What to know to make it easy.

Business Ethics Awareness Strategy

This quiz is designed to assess your current ability for determining the characteristics of ethical behavior. It is essential that leaders, managers, and employees are able to distinguish between positive and negative ethical behavior. The quicker you assess a person's ethical tendency, the awareness empowers you to develop a strategy on how to interact with them.

Motivation

This tests some key elements of major motivation theories.

View More Free Quizzes
Related BrainMass Solutions

  • Smoking and Low Productivity

    274441 Smoking and Low Productivity My problem statement is 'smokers are less productive than non-smokers' - What would be an appropriate goal? My expected outcomes are: 1. No more than an average of 3.75 sick days taken by smokers . 2.

  • Research Project - Smoking and Worker Productivity

    276562 Smoking and Worker Productivity The problem is many smokers are less productive than non-smokers. The purpose of a research project on this topic is to determine if a specific solution strategy improves productivity of smokers.

  • Ethical to Screen Employees?

    Having a lower cost for health care and greater productivity is important in management efficiency. That said, Niemoller stated: They came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.

  • Tort Law - Assumed Risk for Tobacco Companies

    The warnings have gone from "may cause cancer and pregnancy problems" to "causes cancer and low birth weight".

  • a critical evaluation

    If cigarette smokers are warned of the hazards of smoking and they continue to smoke, then they cannot sue tobacco companies for any resulting lung cancer or emphysema. Cigarette smokers are warned of the hazards of smoking.

  • Smoking and worker absenteeism and productivity

    275532 Smoking and worker absenteeism and productivity I am looking for the names and or websites of 70 journal articles not older than 5 years old for a lit review on the effects of smoking on the productivity and absenteeism on of workers Sources

  • Hypothesis Medical Researcher Pulse Rates

    Conclusion: Smokers have higher pulse rate than non smokers. The expert examines hypothesis medical researcher pulse rates. The pulse rates of smokers and non-smokers are discussed.

  • Probability Rules

    199580 Probability Rules of Smokers 320 of the male students are smokers and 480 are non-smokers. 450 of the female students are smokers and 450 are none smokers.

  • pricing strategy

    On one side there are different measures being used to deter young smokers from using flavored cigarettes, on the other hand low prices should be used to attract young smokers to flavored cigarettes.

View More Related Solutions