FLEXTIME CONCEPT.
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Paper Abstract:
Discusses employee work scheduling. Various flexible schedling such as flextime, the four-day week, job sharing. Goal of better integrating the conflicting demands of the organization and the employees. Historical context. Advantages and disadvantages. Organizational benefits. Need for effective planning of work schedules for improved productivity and employee commitment.
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FLEXTIME IN THE WORKPLACE: A REVIEW
Introduction
This research reviews the application by organizations of the flextime concept in employee work scheduling. Flexible work scheduling includes such concepts as flextime, the four-day week, and job sharing, among others. Organizations developed and implemented such initiatives in an effort to better integrate the often conflicting demands of the organization and employees (Gale, 2001).
One set of often conflicting demands pits employee pressures for changes in the standard 40-hour per week, eight-hour per day work week against organizational demands for productivity increases. A change in the standard work week, however, need not lead to productivity reductions. The effect of such a chang
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four-day week and job sharing amongothers week eight-hour per day work weekagainst organizational the characteristics of the newsystem mesh productivity levels Gale Flextime in an Historical total number of hours perweek worked total number of days blocks ofcontiguous hours Beginning in the late the development of suchconcepts and gaining employee acceptance the hour work week as a basis to compensation and other factors Flynn Advantages the great andgrowing need for flexibility in employee work scheduling an organization's human resourceswork Productivity is employees availing themselves of flexible workinghours Clitheroe Thomas Thomas Other researchers work schedules have apositive impact on an organization's levels of coordination arerequired than are be derived froma policy permitting Reduced turnover may well be the mostsignificant organizational benefit associated commitment is associated withreduced personnel early s The increase in absenteeism was percentless than among all company employees three days per year per employee Galen Palmer work four hour days in of both employer and employee and sickness absences Journal of Epidemiology Community Health Flynn T Cuneo A Maremont M June Work family Business Wells M Stokols D Phillips impact of family-friendly policies on attitudes of federal government employees J E Winter The ABCs of child care Building the flextimeconcept in employee work scheduling and employees Gale One set of often conflicting demands pits such a change on productivity will depend largely productivity to occur while a well planned change could have couched interms of total number the historical context isthat work time whatever its change the character of this issue Further in manyinstances hard for the hour work week as be structured within the concept of every four families with children is headed by working arrangements on productivity Productivity is affectednot indicate that the introduction of flextime reducesorganizational costs for lead toa reduction in job-related accidents such tasks when they are most productive Gale Some organizations work time schedules however require organizational changes are more than compensated for through increasedemployee productivity Gale jobsatisfaction are typically associated with increased to theorganization by employees Kaufman and to improved employeeproductivity Saltzstein Ting Saltzstein Absenteeism began and tardiness Kaufman Stamper Tesluk Sommer Malina The Johnson Johnson credited with reducing annual absenteeism from an an alternative to the five-day hour work in theevening or any of a myriad of other M Kevin M V Pentti J April flextime The perk that brings organizations make for good corporate Studies Saltzstein Al L Ting Y Tarkan L December Stress relief The s perk flextime in the workplace a review Introduction This research Organizations developed and implemented such initiatives in demands for productivity increases A change in thestandard work week with organizational requirements A quick change Context and in a Legal Context In an historical context per week worked and total number of daysper year worked s and continuing into thepresent for their implementation Gale To be sure the traditional framework for overtime compensation and otherfactors is now a part and Disadvantages of Flextime More than one-half Management however has been justifiably also affected by ancillary costs associated Ala-Mursula Vahtera Kivimaki Kevin Pentti found that certain activities are bestperformed at certain times productivity as well as having apositive required in organizations operating under a standard workweek regime employees to opt for flexible working hours is anincrease with flextime scheduling foremployees Kaufman Stamper Tesluk Flexible turnover a function of job satisfaction which occurred concurrently witha decline in productivity Flexible work time schedules Galen Palmer Cuneo Maremont At the Englehard Company's Cuneo and Maremont Clearly flextime can have apositive aweek or they may split hours working part Flextime canimprove both productivity and employee commitment is G October The legalities of flextime Workforce Week Kaufman K D Stamper C L K Clitheroe H C Jr Summer Assessing Public Administration Review Sommer K L Malina D Y blocks of competitive advantage Sloan Management Review Flexible work scheduling includessuch concepts as flextime the employee pressures forchanges in the standard hour per on thestructure of the new system and how well either neutral or positive effectson an organization's of hours per day worked duration should generally occur in management has taken the lead in abasic compensation standard to protect labor from managerial exploitation and of the hour work week withrespect asingle parent These household characteristics demonstrate only by the efficiency with which employee medical care because flextime reducedstress levels among those thereby reducing costs and increasingproductivity McMahan Wells Stokols Phillips have found that the flexible forthe firm implementing such a program Higher Perhaps the greatest organizational benefits that may productivity reducedabsenteeism and reduced turnover Stamper Tesluk Sommer Malina Improved organizational to increase dramatically in the American workplacein the Corporation found thatabsenteeism among employees who worked on flextime schedules average of daysper year per employee to an average of week Under a flextime arrangement employees may schedules as long as such schedulingis compatible with the needs Employee control over working times Associations with subjective health productivity Workforce Galen M Palmer A citizens Journal of Managerial Issues McMahan S Saltzstein G H July Work-family balance and job satisfaction The Working Woman Thomas L T Thomas reviews the application by organizations of aneffort to better integrate the often conflicting demands of theorganization however need not lead to productivity reductions Theeffect of withouteffective planning could cause deterioration in the hours of work issue has been What has not been at issue in however flexible work time concepts have changed and arecontinuing to of the issue-total hours worked-remains viable Labor unions fought of federal labor law Flexible working hours however can of American families are dual-income households Additionally one concerned over the potential effects offlexible with anorganization's human resources Gale Studies Tarkan Other studies indicate that implementation of flextime can of the day and that flextime permits employeesto schedule impact on employee desires to remain with their organizations Flexible The requirements of coordination associated with the flexibleworking hours however in employee job satisfaction because higher levels of working hours leads to improved commitment inturn leads to reduced personnel acquisition costs have been found toreduce both absenteeism Alabama plants flextime work scheduleswere impact on absenteeism Summary and Conclusion Flextime refers to in the day and part managed effectively ReferencesAla-Mursula L Vahtera J Kivimaki Gale S F February Formalized Tesluk P E Winter Do supportive health promotion programming in small businesses American Journal of Health August Flexible work solutions Small Business Reports four-day week and job sharing amongothers week eight-hour per day work weekagainst organizational the characteristics of the newsystem mesh productivity levels Gale Flextime in an Historical total number of hours perweek worked total number of days blocks ofcontiguous hours Beginning in the late the development of suchconcepts and gaining employee acceptance the hour work week as a basis to compensation and other factors Flynn Advantages the great andgrowing need for flexibility in employee work scheduling an organization's human resourceswork Productivity is employees availing themselves of flexible workinghours Clitheroe Thomas Thomas Other researchers work schedules have apositive impact on an organization's levels of coordination arerequired than are be derived froma policy permitting Reduced turnover may well be the mostsignificant organizational benefit associated commitment is associated withreduced personnel early s The increase in absenteeism was percentless than among all company employees three days per year per employee Galen Palmer work four hour days in of both employer and employee and sickness absences Journal of Epidemiology Community Health Flynn T Cuneo A Maremont M June Work family Business Wells M Stokols D Phillips impact of family-friendly policies on attitudes of federal government employees J E Winter The ABCs of child care Building the flextimeconcept in employee work scheduling and employees Gale One set of often conflicting demands pits such a change on productivity will depend largely productivity to occur while a well planned change could have couched interms of total number the historical context isthat work time whatever its change the character of this issue Further in manyinstances hard for the hour work week as be structured within the concept of every four families with children is headed by working arrangements on productivity Productivity is affectednot indicate that the introduction of flextime reducesorganizational costs for lead toa reduction in job-related accidents such tasks when they are most productive Gale Some organizations work time schedules however require organizational changes are more than compensated for through increasedemployee productivity Gale jobsatisfaction are typically associated with increased to theorganization by employees Kaufman and to improved employeeproductivity Saltzstein Ting Saltzstein Absenteeism began and tardiness Kaufman Stamper Tesluk Sommer Malina The Johnson Johnson credited with reducing annual absenteeism from an an alternative to the five-day hour work in theevening or any of a myriad of other M Kevin M V Pentti J April flextime The perk that brings organizations make for good corporate Studies Saltzstein Al L Ting Y Tarkan L December Stress relief The s perk
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