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From:Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand (Vol. 13, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedNZNO has welcomed the return to Parliament of Green MP Sue Kedgley's Flexible Working Hours Bill, which, it says, will be an important tool for addressing safe staffing issues in New Zealand's hospitals. The Bill was...
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From:Journal of Economic Issues (Vol. 34, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe regulation of working hours through legislation and collective bargaining became standard practice throughout Europe during the postwar period. This led to a stable workweek, generally forty hours or slightly...
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From:Management Review (Vol. 83, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedFlextime sounds good in theory, but when implementation is left up to line managers, it is problematic. The difficulties managers face in setting up a program that accommodates the work styles of different individuals -...
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From:Labor Studies Journal (Vol. 17, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedA large public utility company and a labor union recently agreed on a joint, cooperative program to introduce flexible scheduling to a large subunit on a trial basis. After one year, despite a number of highly...
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From:Monthly Labor Review (Vol. 109) Peer-ReviewedShift work and flexitime: how prevalent are they? Although the needs of society require a diversity of work schedules, most Americans have traditional morning to late-afternoon hours. The great majority of full-time...
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From:Journal of Environmental Health (Vol. 59, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedIn the United States all levels of government face pressure to downsize. The costs associated with government services have continued to outpace revenue sources. Citizens are demanding that government provide better...
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From:Management Review (Vol. 85, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAffording employees flexible work hours creates a sense of loyalty among them and enhances productivity, according to research by, among others, Hewitt Associates. The research notes that employees become more productive...
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From:Building Design & Construction (Vol. 37, Issue 1)Sen John Ashcroft has proposed a bill that would allow federal employees to negotiate flexible work schedules. The Ashcroft bill would prevent employers from requiring employees to work a set schedule or accept...
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From:British Medical Journal (Vol. 322, Issue 7302) Peer-ReviewedThe health service needs to offer more flexible working conditions to attract and retain women doctors in all branches of hospital medicine, a new report has said. Despite the fact that women make up more than 50% of...
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From:Academic Journal of Economic Studies (Vol. 6, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe increasing day to day work pressures, longer working hours and meeting of targets that are demanded by the employers always leads to the employee family discords, lower performance, ill health and low morale. This...
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From:Global Business and Management Research: An International Journal (Vol. 12, Issue 3)Employee turnover is costly for organizations due to the high cost of recruiting, training, and employee productivity. This study aimed to investigate the influence of flexible work arrangement, supervisor support, and...
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From:Family Practice News (Vol. 37, Issue 9)A major demographic shift is underway in medicine as female physicians become more numerous, and this trend will influence how medical groups recruit and retain physicians throughout their career cycles, according to...
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From:Organization Science (Vol. 27, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedOur paper examines the challenge of coordinating flexible performance during everyday work. We draw on routine dynamics and ethnomethodology to examine how intensive care unit (ICU) physicians coordinate their...
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From:Monthly Labor Review (Vol. 124, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAnalysis of the Current Population Survey indicates positive wage differentials overall for women on flextime in 1989 and for both men and women in 1997; significant differentials emerge for selected motivations,...
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From:Human Resource Planning (Vol. 19, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAlternative work schedules (AWS) have emerged as employers of the 1990s are increasingly adapting an ever-diverse workforce, particularly employees who seek flexibility on the job. Many types of AWS have been developed,...
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From:Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand (Vol. 13, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedThe Transport and Industrial Relations Select Committee will report back to Parliament this month on quality flexible work. The committee has considered the responses to the Department of labour's discussion paper...
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From:Administrative Science Quarterly (Vol. 35, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe implementation of an experimental flexible-scheduling program was the basis for a naturally occurring field experiment. A six-year assessment tests the effects of a flexible-scheduling program on absenteeism and...
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From:University Business (Vol. 20, Issue 8)The "nontraditional" student represents perhaps the single biggest growth area for higher ed enrollment. But no single set of characteristics defines that student. Today's nontraditional learners have branched into...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 13, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedIn this paper, the accelerated failure time (AFT) model is modified to analyze post-work grocery shopping activity duration. Much previous shopping duration analysis was conducted using the proportional hazard (PH)...
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From:Women and Language (Vol. 24, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAbstract: This study explores the bounded realities of employed mothers as they negotiate the balance of paid work and family. Informed by Deetz's (1992) concept of corporate colonization of the lifeworld, Haraway's...