Human Resources

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A look at the benefits and problems associated with giving employees flexible working hours.

1,095 words () | 4 sources | 2000

Paper Summary:

This paper discusses staffing flexibility as a potential strategic asset for a company. It examines how organization flexibility involves dynamic adaptation in three areas:organizational factors, individual factors and environmental factors. Reasons for resistance to using flexible working hours are looked at. The benefits as well as the problems are scrutinized, with the final conclusion that with some planning, forethought and the right situation, various factors can come together to create a flexible arrangement acceptable to the worker and beneficial to the employer.

From the Paper:

"Flexibility is a recently defined organizational strategic asset; it provides a significant competitive advantage for companies aware of the need to adapt quickly to changing markets and factors of demand, either through better customer access or innovation. Flexible organizations may use any or a combination of available popular scheduling strategies. A key factor in identifying those companies that will be successful in a flexible market calling for innovative solutions is the ability to provide a progressive management style with openness to new ideas."