The erosion of standard forms of employment is creating new needs and management requirements in organizations. This article examines the polarization within the workforce. The classical approach of the core and marginal workforce based on the work of Doeringer and Piore (1971) will be reshaped...

Firms of differing sizes make FWAs available to employees, with varying performance outcomes. Research on the financial outcomes of FWAs is sparse and tends to focus on large firms. This study investigates the associations between FWAs and return on labour (ROL) as well as the relevance of these...

Striking a balance between the work one is involved in to sustain life and the life itself, is a strenuous task for almost every individual. It transcends all kinds of differences among human beings, whether the difference is related to gender, age, type of organisation to which one is attached,...

This paper addresses the question of organization of work and efficient reorganization. An emerging literature is basically concerned with the polar model of high involvement (holistic) vs. traditional (Tayloristic) work organizations. This paper extends in two ways: First, the polar case is...

Firms with high shares of workers on fixed-term contracts have significantly higher sales of imitative new products but perform significantly worse on sales of inno¬va¬tive new products (“first on the market”). High functional flexibility in “insider-outsider” la¬bor markets enhances...

This paper examines the effects of actual work schedules (e.g., shift, rotating, flexible) and work schedule control fit on work-family conflict and synergy using data (N=2822) from the 2008 National Study of the Changing Workforce. Gender and work schedules interacted to predict work...

Section 1.Getting Started:A Primer on True Flexibility: Prioritize company and employee needs equally /by Ellen Ernst Kossek, Patricia Gettings, and Kaumudi Misra --What Mix of WFH and Office Time Is Right for You?: Make decisions based on your productivity levels /by Robert C Pozen and...

Die psychische Gesundheit der Beschäftigten gilt als ein entscheidender Faktor für den Unternehmenserfolg. Arbeitsbedingungen und Arbeitsbeziehungen können dabei als Ressourcen oder als Stressoren wirken. Doch gerade diese verändern sich im Kontext moderner Arbeitsformen. Mobile und flexible...