BOH ASSIGNMENT

 BOH ASSIGNMENT:

GO TO http://www.wiley.com/college/schermerhorn/video/vidcase1.html

Watch the video and answer the following on your blog.

Video Case 1—Whose Life is it Anyway? 

1.    How can employers like Scotts Miracle-Gro justify the expense of providing employees with free access to doctors, pharmacy, gyms, and personal trainers?

If the employers lower the health insurance for the employees; they  justify the expense of providing employees with free access to doctors, pharmacy, gyms, and personal trainers.  The employers want to save their money by improving their employees’ health.         

2.    What lifestyle changes might employers do in the future to increase performance efficiency and performance effectiveness?

The employers will request for their employees to quit smoking in order to keep working with them.  Therefore, if the employees have good health they will work better and they will produce more.  In this case the employers will be able to increase performance efficiency and performance effectiveness. 

  3.    Should employers regulate your behaviour after work hours? Why or why not?

The employers shouldn’t regulate the employees behaviour after work hours because it’s about their personality.  Moreover, if the employees do their work probably and done everything they have to do; the employers shouldn’t mind about what the employees are doing after work because they got all the work done.  However, in this situation the employers are offering free access to doctors, pharmacy, gyms, and personal trainers and spending a lot of money on it, so I think that the employers shouldn’t regulate the employees behaviour after work hours because they want to keep their employees healthy.            

4. As stated in Chapter 1, there is more emphasis on respecting people as valuable strategic assets to be nurtured and developed, not as costs to be controlled. Do you believe the programs and policies at Scotts nurture and develop employees or treat them as costs to be controlled?

No, I don’t believe that the programs and policies at Scotts nurture and develop employees but I believe that they treat the employees as costs to be controlled. When they say it’s ethir to quit smoking or quit their job; they aren’t giving them any other options.  Also, the employers don’t respect that there are some employees that have been working with them for a long time or maybe they have done something great to the company.  The employer's decision is if you don’t stop smoking we don’t want you anymore.