During Annual Inventory Week,a Department Store May Ask Its Employees

question 66

True/False

During annual inventory week,a department store may ask its employees to work 12 hours a day instead of the usual 8.During tax-preparation time,the store's accounting department may imitate this same change in work hours.Although accounting employees are in a different department from stockroom and sales employees,it's expected they wouldn't be terribly upset by the temporary change in hours since they've seen it in effect elsewhere in the store.This is an example of innovative change.

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