Flexible work arrangements
Flexible Work Arrangements
Denise R. Resendiz
Webster University
Overview Workplaces that work, no author cited, discusses the overall benefits of flexible work arrangements to both the employees and the employer. It details how this type of arrangement should be managed in order to achieve the most benefit. Additionally, the article outlines how to an organization can implement this program (Workplaces that work, nd). The article Flexible Work Arrangements: A Win-Win for Organizations and Employees, written by Kathleen Christensen, discusses a Bridgespan Group white paper that discusses the need for senior level executive positons between the years of 2007 and 2016. The article details the importance of how a flexible work arrangement can open the pool or available candidates to meet the growing need of senior level positions. Additionally, this article outlines the benefits and potential pitfalls of the program (Christensen, 2005).
Main Issues of Both Articles
According to a Bridgespan Group white paper there will be a need to add approximately 640,000 new senior level positions between the years of 2007 and 2016. In order to achieve that level of required positions, it will require investing in leadership capacity in addition to expanding the reach of human resource recruiting in order to add the baby boomers in the pool of qualified candidates. Additionally, companies are going to need to become more creative in the way they operate in order to attract employees. One such creative way is flexible work arrangements (Christensen, 2005). Flexible work arrangements are a schedule that alters the work time or work place in order for the employees to get their work done. This arrangement would allow the work hours to be flexible, such as a compressed work schedule. An example of a compressed work schedule would be four 10’s. That would mean an employee would work Monday – Thursday, 10 hours a day and get Friday’s off.
Denise R. Resendiz
Webster University
Overview Workplaces that work, no author cited, discusses the overall benefits of flexible work arrangements to both the employees and the employer. It details how this type of arrangement should be managed in order to achieve the most benefit. Additionally, the article outlines how to an organization can implement this program (Workplaces that work, nd). The article Flexible Work Arrangements: A Win-Win for Organizations and Employees, written by Kathleen Christensen, discusses a Bridgespan Group white paper that discusses the need for senior level executive positons between the years of 2007 and 2016. The article details the importance of how a flexible work arrangement can open the pool or available candidates to meet the growing need of senior level positions. Additionally, this article outlines the benefits and potential pitfalls of the program (Christensen, 2005).
Main Issues of Both Articles
According to a Bridgespan Group white paper there will be a need to add approximately 640,000 new senior level positions between the years of 2007 and 2016. In order to achieve that level of required positions, it will require investing in leadership capacity in addition to expanding the reach of human resource recruiting in order to add the baby boomers in the pool of qualified candidates. Additionally, companies are going to need to become more creative in the way they operate in order to attract employees. One such creative way is flexible work arrangements (Christensen, 2005). Flexible work arrangements are a schedule that alters the work time or work place in order for the employees to get their work done. This arrangement would allow the work hours to be flexible, such as a compressed work schedule. An example of a compressed work schedule would be four 10’s. That would mean an employee would work Monday – Thursday, 10 hours a day and get Friday’s off.
References: Christensen, K. (2005, July 18). Flexible Work Arrangements: A Win-Win for Organizations and Employees. Retrieved December 4, 2014, from http://www.bridgespan.org/Publications-and-Tools/Hiring-Nonprofit-Leaders/Hiring-Strategy/Flexible-Work-Arrangements-A-Win-Win.aspx Greenhaus, J., Callanan, G. & Godshalk, V (2010). Career management (4th ed.). Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications. Workplaces that Work. (n.d.). Retrieved December 5, 2014, from http://hrcouncil.ca/hr-toolkit/workplaces-flexible.cfm