Chapter 15, Problem 15.96ACI

Flexible working hours program. A job-scheduling innovation that has helped managers overcome motivation and absenteeism problems associated with a fixed 8-hour workday is a concept called flextime. This flexible working hours program permits employees to design their own 40-hour workweek to meet their personal needs. The management of a large manufacturing firm may adopt a flextime program depending on the success or failure of a pilot program. Ten employees were randomly selected and given a questionnaire designed to measure their attitude toward their job. Each was then permitted to design and follow a flextime workday. After 6 months, attitudes toward their jobs were again measured. The resulting attitude scores are displayed in the table. The higher the score, the more favorable the employee’ s attitude toward his or her work. Use a nonparametric test procedure to evaluate the success of the pilot flextime program. Test using α = .05.

Employee	Before	After
1	54	68
2	25	42
3	80	80
4	76	91
5	63	70
6	82	88
7	94	90
8	72	81
9	33	39
10	90	93