alternative work schedules

Alternative Work Schedules Alternative Schedules offer both the employer and employee a versatile and innovative work scheduling program in the work place. In recent years, the importance of flexible and compressed work schedules have been enhanced by the emergence of work and family issues. As the workforce ages, becomes more culturally diverse, and women make up a greater percentage of the work force, management officials are grappling with ways to resolve conflicts that arise when …

…the efficient operation of the agency and the success of the established work schedule. Bibliography References Cyriax G.R. (1980). Negotiating a shorter working week. Hampshire, UK: Ashgate Publishing Company. Levitan, S. (1977).Shorter hours, shorter weeks: spreading the work to reduce unemployment, policy studies in employment & welfare series #30. Baltimore, MD: John Hopkins University Press. Maklan D.M. (1977). Four-Day work week: Blue collar adjustment to a nonconventional arrangement of work & leisure , special studies. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing.