Academic Integrity: tutoring, explanations, and feedback — we don’t complete graded work or submit on a student’s behalf.

Choose the best and worst answer for the following questions. Suppose your super

ID: 395192 • Letter: C

Question

Choose the best and worst answer for the following questions.

Suppose your supervisor returns from vacation and notices that the work area looks terrible. You also had the last two days off. He's angry and criticizes you for being careless and sloppy. This wasn't your fault. What would you do?

Tell him it wasn't your fault and not to criticize you unjustly.
B. Let the coworkers responsible know that you had to take the heat.
C. Suggest he talk directly to the people who left the place a mess.
D. Straighten up the department and try to reason with him later.
E. Take it up with your supervisor's boss.

A customer calls in and is upset that an issue on her order has not been fixed. She complained about it a month ago. What would you do?

Apologize to the customer and inform her that you will find out who was responsible for fixing the issue.

Seek out manager to see what action you should take

Apologize right away and tell her that you will personally look into It right away.

Offer the customer a discount on the order.

Tell the customer that someone will call her soon as the issue is fixed/

You are a new employee. You overhear a more experienced employee being extremely rude with a customer. What would you do?

Ignore the coworker, it’s not your business

Tell the customer that was inappropriate

Offer to handle the customer yourself

Suggest to the coworker another way the situation could have been handled

Talk confidentially to your supervisor

You have come up with a new idea to improve services, but it requires the support of several employees in different areas. One of the employees is likely to be against the idea. What would you do to convince her?

Explain the logic behind the idea and why is a good one

Sell your idea to the manager and have the manager convince your coworker

Tell the employee you need help on something and explain how she can help you implement the idea

Convince the other employees and use their influence on the reluctant employee

Find some way to help the employees and then offer to trade support

A customer says the last call center representative she worked with provided poor services. She gives details about the poor services (such as not calling her back, when she left a message), and she tells you the call center representative name. How would you respond?

Tell the employees manager what the customer said

Tell the employee what customer said

Tell the customer that you can handle her business from now on

Tell the customer that you can report her comments to the employee’s manager if she wishes

Ignore what the customer said and complete the transaction

A customer tells you she asked a coworker of yours for help with something. She says the coworker told her he didn’t know anything about it and just rudely ended the call. What would you do?

Suggest talk to the manager personally

Ask her what she would like you to do

Ask her if she remembered the name of the employee and approach that person yourself

Apologize and tell her you will glad to help her whenever you can

Apologize and tell her you will tell the manager

A new employee, doing the same job as you, keeps asking you questions about how to do the job. You just explained all of this to him the day before. Hes slowing you down. What would you do?

Tell him he is interfering with your job

Ask him if he would possibly be better suited for another department

Tell your manager about the problem

Show him how he can find the information on his own

Suggest he ask the manager for more training

You are on the phone with a customer. Suppose that all systems have just shut down. You are unable to review any accounts in the computer and are unable to process any customer request. What would you do>

Inform the customers calling in that your systems are down, and they will have to call back

Redirect all customer calls to a separate department

Stop answering the phone until you can help the customers

Apologize to all customers calling in and give them an estimated time that systems will be back up

Take down the customers information by hand and call them when the systems are back up

A customer calls in to cancel her account, claiming she has received a lower price from a competitor. What would you do?

Offer a customer similar rate as the competitor and allow the customer to keep her current plant.

Seek out a manger to see what action should take

Try to sell the customers a cheaper plan, which would lower her monthly bill

Attempt to persuade the customer to stay with organization by explaining all the benefits she has as a customer

Inform the customer that the competitor does not have as great customer services as your organization and that many other customers have switched back to your organization

Explanation / Answer

1.

Best Answer: Straighten up the department and try to reason with him later

Worst Answer: Take it up with your supervisor's boss

As a responsible employee, you should first correct those things which are not right as it is beneficial to the organization then try to tell your boss that you have done the things right as he/she said. Later you can tell him/her personally about the issue.

2.Best:

Apologize right away and tell her that you will personally look into It right away.

Worst:

Tell the customer that someone will call her soon as the issue is fixed

As a good customer service representative, you should first try to look into the matter by yourself and try to solve the problem rather taking the things to some other level.

3: Best:

Suggest to the coworker another way the situation could have been handled

Worst:

Tell the customer that was inappropriate

You should not argue with a customer and also it's not good to correct your coworker rather you should suggest some ideas to improve the customer service and handle the customer

4: Best:

Tell the employee you need help on something and explain how she can help you implement the idea

Worst:

Find some way to help the employees and then offer to trade support

Always it is better to involve the employees and try to convince them in a good manner so that it will be helpful for both.

5:

Best:

Tell the customer that you can handle her business from now on

Worst:

Tell the customer that you can report her comments to the employee’s manager if she wishes

Customer service demands a quick response to the matter and it is always better to try to do it yourself rather keeping on waiting for a customer. Also you should not talk about your coworker for your customer to the manager.

Please comment if any doubt

Rate me

thanks