Managing the flexible workforce:
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1998
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| Physical Description: | X, 134 S.: Abb. |
| ISBN: | 0304701092 0304701084 |
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| adam_text | Contents
List of summary boxes and figures vii
Preface ix
1 Introduction
Flexible workforce 1
Conclusions 6
2 Hours and patterns of work
Introduction 8
Work content 9
Hours of work 11
Other patterns of work 15
Use of subcontractors, agencies and specialists 21
Conclusions 26
3 Contractual arrangements
Contracts of employment 27
Employment law 34
Conclusions 35
4 Motivation and rewards
Motivation theories 37
Work motivation 44
Pay and benefits 49
Conclusions 54
5 Staffing the flexible workforce
Introduction 55
Equal opportunities 57
Staff planning 57
High quality staff 5 8
Training and development 66
Industrial relations 69
Conclusions 73
vi CONTENTS
6 Management and the flexible workforce
Introduction 74
Management style 74
Management qualities 77
Management training 80
Management performance 82
Conclusions 83
7 Flexible working in practice
Organization structure and forms 86
Culture 89
Conditions 92
Supervision 92
High quality staff 92
Other factors 99
Conclusions 102
Appendix A: Employment law in the UK: the legal framework 103
Appendix B: The European Community Social Charter 121
Appendix C: Glossary 127
Bibliography 130
Index 131
List of summary boxes
and figures
Summary boxes
1.1 The NatWest Tower, Bishop s Gate, London EC 1 2
1.2 The affluent worker 3
1.3 Short-termism 5
2.1 Social contact 9
2.2 Job sharing 12
2.3 Long hours and culture 13
2.4 Flexitime systems 15
2.5 Sony and empowerment 18
2.6 Homeworking: obligations and pitfalls 19
2.7 Autonomous work groups: Saab 21
2.8 Network creation: The Economist 22
2.9 Service level arrangements, agreements and contracts:
content 24
2.10 Fee-paying arrangements 25
2.11 The basis of a flexible environment 25
3.1 Equality and discrimination 31
4.1 Physical and psychological distance 45
4.2 Semco 50
5.1 Staff planning and analysis 5 9
5.2 Fitting the work to people: fitting the people to work 61
5.3 Induction: the results of induction 67
6.1 Semco 75
6.2 Leadership 78
6.3 The summer job 82
6.4 Alienation 84
7.1 Quality circles 87
7.2 The flexible work project that failed 93
7.3 Delayering and flexibility 94
7.4 Pay and reward levels 95
7.5 Effective work groups 96
7.6 Outsourcing and identity 97
7.7 The work/quality/rewards equation 98
7.8 Joan Woodward and scales of production 99
viii LIST OF SUMMARY BOXES AND FIGURES
Figures
2.1 Training and development: the personal/professional/
organization mix 16
4.1 The System 4 model 38
4.2 Maslow s hierarchy of needs 39
4.3 Herzberg s two-factor or hygiene factor theory 42
4.4 A simple expectancy model 43
5.1 Human resource management summary 5 6
5.2 Fitting the work to the person/fitting the person to the work 63
5.3 Induction learning curves 67
5.4 Training and development: the professional/organizational/
personal mix 68
6.1 The circle 79
6.2 The inverse pyramid 80
7.1 Flexible work organizations 88
7.2 Product and service relationships 100
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