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Question: You are a trainee manager on the trainee manager scheme. Your Human Resources manager?

Question: You are a trainee manager on the sainsbury's trainee manager scheme. Your Human Resources manager has asked you to do a detailed personal development plan. They will like this to be finished by the end of the day. The produce department manager is short staffed and struggling to ensure there is good availability of products on the shelves. They also have asked if you will come and help them out today. Both jobs require a whole day to complete.
1) What is the best course of action to take first? and
2) What is the worst course of action to take first?

a) Complete your personal development plan as the human resources manager has asked you.
b) Do half a day in the produce department and half a day working on your personal development plan.
c) Help on produce, it is really important to make sure there is good availability pf product.
d) Ask the human resources manager which they would prefer you to do.
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None of the above.
Put in some unpaid overtime after finishing at the produce department then work on the plan then pull down the Resource Managers pants part his cheeks and start licking.

Seriously though i would say A because its the Resource Managers job to ensure there are staff where they're needed.

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Other Answers (5)

• What's best for the business?
  
  From a business point of view the priority must be to get produce onto the shelves to sell so tell the produce manager you'll help but ask him to have a word with the HR manager and explain that you had to help him and not do the personal development plan which you will do tomorrow.
  
  That would show good management skills and the ability to recognise priority and non-priority tasks.
• I would seriously delegate - if you are training to be a manager - you are training to be a leader. I would say that you would be willing to help partly in the fresh produce department as soon as you finish a priority job allocated to you- you can either have a future in the company or you can be a nobody that everyone loves because you are always willing to help to your detriment..
• None of those
  
  Ask the HR Manager if they can give you more time, as you are the trainee manager and (as would all good managers) your priority would be to help your team.
  
  It would be beneficial all round, as this would allow you more time to think carefully about your 'detailed personal development plan' rather than rush through it.
• Methinks YOU'RE supposed to answer that.
• d) would be the best course, b) would be the worst course
  
  As a manager trainee, you wouldn't be reporting to the produce manager unless you have been specifically told to do so. More likely, your job status would mean that you answer to human resources.
  
  As a manager in training, you should also realize that having a good availability of product would be very important to the company. The human resources manager needs to be aware of this situation, so you should explain it to him, and ask him what action you should take. That would make d) the best answer. It would be better than a) because it would involve making sure the correct information is used in making the decision. It would be better than c) because you would be trying to meet expectations. b) would be the worst choice because niether job would get done; if each job takes a full day, working half a day on each would get nothing finished.