You Want to Ask Your Supervisor About Working Flexible Hours

question 15

Multiple Choice

You want to ask your supervisor about working flexible hours. You think that her first concern will be whether you will still be able to accomplish all your necessary tasks, and you have found some research showing that flex-time employees are generally more productive than standard schedule workers. You think an email would probably be the best way to open the discussion, so that she can have time to go through the information and consider your proposal. You are engaged in which step of the ACE process?

• A) adapting
• B) analyzing
• C) considering
• D) composing
• E) evaluating

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Definitions:

Evolutionary View

A theoretical perspective that explains the behaviors, physical characteristics, and adaptations of organisms as the result of natural selection and survival needs.

Natural Selection

The evolutionary process by which organisms with traits that better enable them to adapt to their environment tend to survive and reproduce.

Acquisition

The process of learning or acquiring new information or skills.

Incentive

A factor, often a reward or benefit, that motivates an individual to perform an action or behave in a specific way.