Flexible working practices : techniques and innovations / John Stredwick and Steve Ellis.
By: Stredwick, John.
Contributor(s): Ellis, Steve.
Material type: BookSeries: Developing practice.Publisher: London : Institute of Personnel and Development, 1998Description: xv, 328 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0852927444.Subject(s): Personnel management | Work environmentDDC classification: 658.312Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 658.312 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00070862 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Annual hours -- Longer hours, shorter hours: innovative forms of part-time working -- Predicting the unpredictable: meeting the organisation's need to respond flexibly -- Teleworking and virtual business teams -- Multi-skilling and flexible working -- Outsourcing -- Call centres -- Flexible rewards for individuals -- Paying for team flexibility -- Flexible benefits -- Family-friendly policies -- Flexible working through empowerment -- Flexibility and the psychological contract -- Selling the idea of flexibility -- European legislation on flexibility -- Two case-studies.