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Explores three forms of alternative work schedules that research has shown improve job performance and decrease absenteeism: flextime (starting and stopping times vary within limits); permanent part-time employment (regular employment carried out during shorter working hours); and job sharing (two or more part-time employees share one full-time job).
Personnel Journal, v62 n3 p202-07 Mar 1983 Facets of alternative work schedules (AWS) are discussed: importance of employee control, possible negative consequences, AWS handbook, time monitoring systems, and treatment of exceptions.
Journal of the College and University Personnel Association, 28, 3, 53-6, Sum 77 The compressed work week, flexitime, and job sharing are discussed from the labor perspective. The author suggests that it is unlikely that unions will endorse flexible work arrangements that jeopardize the eight-hour-day concept.
ED321157 1990-00-00 Flexible Work Schedules. ERIC Digest. ERIC Development Team www.eric.ed.gov. Table of Contents. If you're viewing this document online, you can click any of the topics below to link directly to that section. Flexible Work Schedules. ERIC Digest. 1. DIMENSIONS OF ALTERNATIVE WORK SCHEDULES. 2. PART-TIME EMPLOYMENT. 2 ...
recreational endeavors and may schedule evening hours for. work. There are various alternative work patterns; some. examples are discussed below. Examples of Alternative Work Patterns. Flextime is a type of work pattern enabling workers to regulate thJir hours of employment, but requiring a set num-ber of work hours. The standard method is to ...
Alternative Work Schedules: Definitions Journal of the College and University Personnel Association , 28, 3, 26-9, Sum 77 The term "alternative work schedules" encompasses any variation of the requirement that all permanent employees in an organization or one shift of employees adhere to the same five-day, seven-to-eight-hour schedule.
alternative work schedules, and to de, mine whether, and in what situations, Federal Government can successfully use. them. (See pp. 5 and 6.) ar-E. The experiment was authorized by the Fe-eral Employees Flexible and Compressed 'irk Schedules Act of 1978. By March 1982, le Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is Lo report to the President and ...
Personnel Administrator, v24 n10 p19-23 Oct 1979 Presents a typology of modifications to the standard work week, reviews the current state of research-based knowledge regarding the effectiveness of each major type of alternative, and presents implementation suggestions for personnel interested in adopting one or more of the alternative forms.