Friday, May 04, 2007

Making Flexible Schedules Work-for Everyone
Harvard Management Update, 1 May 2007
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Ellen Ernst Kossek, Mary Dean Lee, Douglas T. Hall
"Research shows that allowing employees to craft nontraditional workloads and schedules yields significant payoffs: everything from better retention of high performers to improved team functioning and greater productivity and efficiency. But it's not a given that all customised arrangements will deliver value to your organisation. In this article, three experts in the fields of organisational behaviour and human resource management discuss the characteristics of a successful reduced workload and present four questions for you and your employee to answer in considering a nontraditional work arrangement."
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