Flexible Work Arrangments: Managing the Work-Family Boundary (Wiley Series in Work Well-Being & Stress) - Softcover

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Benjamin H. Gottlieb is the author of Flexible Work Arrangements: Managing the Work-Family Boundary, published by Wiley.

E. Kevin Kelloway is the Canada Research Chair in Occupational Health Psychology and a Professor of Psychology at Saint Mary’s University, Canada. He is a fellow of the Association for Psychological Science, the Canadian Psychological Association, and the Society for Industrial & Organizational Psychology. In addition to serving on several editorial boards, he is Associate Editor of Work & Stress, section editor for Stress & Health, and associate editor for the Journal of Organizational Effectiveness: People and Performance. He has published over 150 articles, chapters, and reports and has authored/edited 13 books. He maintains an active consulting practice in areas related to occupational health psychology and human resource management.

Elizabeth J. Barham is the author of Flexible Work Arrangements: Managing the Work-Family Boundary, published by Wiley.

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Dramatic changes in the composition of today's workforce combined with intense competitive pressures on employers, call for new ways of structuring where, when, and how employees accomplish their job responsibilities. This book makes the business case for flexible working in an organization, and shows how flexitime, job sharing, telecommuting, and compressed work weeks can be used as strategic management tools. Key features:

• identifies ways flexible work arrangements can be designed to enhance the personal well-being and job performance of employees, while improving the corporate bottom line.
• provides a comprehensive, systematic framework for planning and implementing flexible work arrangements, including handy questionnaire style forms assessing employee needs and evaluating the impacts of flexible job arrangements.
• uses case studies and calls on advice from those with experience in diverse organizations in order to show how to position flexible work arrangements and optimize their beneficial effects.

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Dramatic changes in the composition of today's workforce combined with intense competitive pressures on employers, call for new ways of structuring where, when, and how employees accomplish their job responsibilities. This book makes the business case for flexible working in an organization, and shows how flexitime, job sharing, telecommuting, and compressed work weeks can be used as strategic management tools. Key features:

• identifies ways flexible work arrangements can be designed to enhance the personal well-being and job performance of employees, while improving the corporate bottom line.
• provides a comprehensive, systematic framework for planning and implementing flexible work arrangements, including handy questionnaire style forms assessing employee needs and evaluating the impacts of flexible job arrangements.
• uses case studies and calls on advice from those with experience in diverse organizations in order to show how to position flexible work arrangements and optimize their beneficial effects.