Flexible Work

Designing our Healthier Future Lives
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-367-34566-2
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 268 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 415 g

Reihe: Current Issues in Work and Organizational Psychology

Flexible Work: Designing Our Healthier Future Lives examines flexible working through the lens of social science, in particular using psychological perspective to address not only what forms of flexible working there are and how they are evolving but also their prospect in the future of work. Bringing together views from thought-leaders and underpinned by research evidence, this book addresses two of the most fundamental business challenges for large and medium organisations – mental health and productivity – calling for the bridging of science and policy to design flexible working for our future healthier lives.

Growing from these foundations, this book explains the latest landscape in flexible working, looking at employee psychological health and productivity, including showing up for work sick. Perspectives are provided from around the world on leadership, line management, ‘over attachment’ with technology, commuting, skill-based inequality and control over working time. Readers are offered insights into the relevance of flexible working for a diverse workforce – invisible disabilities, disabilities, older workers and blended families. Throughout, the book offers suggestions for shaping future policy, practice and research.

Each chapter concludes with recommendations, making this essential reading for students, academics, human resource practitioners, policy-influencers, policymakers and professionals interested in flexible work.

Zielgruppe

General, Postgraduate, Professional, Professional Practice & Development, and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Norgate, Sarah H.

Cooper, Cary L.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologische Disziplinen Angewandte Psychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Unternehmensorganisation, Corporate Responsibility Selbstständige & Freiberufler

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of figures

List of tables

Contributors

PART I – Introduction

- Designing our Healthier Future Lives: Bridging Science and Policy for Flexible Work: The Pervasion of 'cog in the wheel' workplaces across time

Sarah H. Norgate & Cary L. Cooper

- A Flexible Working Future – The Opportunities and Challenges

Peter Cheese

PART II – The Impact of Flexible Working on Health and Productivity

- Employees’ Psychological Health and The Impact of Flexible Working Arrangements

Carolyn Timms, Paula Brough & Xi Wen (Carys) Chan

- Workplace Flexibility Increases Productivity Throughout Presenteeism: A Conceptual Framework

Sara L. Lopes & Aristides I. Ferreira

- Flexible Working and Quality of Life: Compatible?

Sarah Jackson & Jonathan Swan

PART III – What Makes Flexible Working Work?

- Leadership in Flexible Work Systems

Anika Cloutier & Julian Barling

- Line Managers and Flexible Working

Sharon Clarke

- The Balanced Communications Diet for Business: Principles for Working Smarter, Not Harder in A Connected World

Nicola J. Millard

- The Impact of The Commute on Our Mental Health and Physical Health Within the Context of Flexible and Non-Flexible Working

Anna Mary Cooper-Ryan, Charlotte Stonier & Abolanle Gbadamosi

- Flexible Working and Skill-Biased Inequality: Causes and Consequences

Egidio Riva & Marcello Russo

- Control Over Working Time - A Twenty-First-Century Issue

Kate Bell

PART IV – Flexible Working for Particular Groups of Workers

- Supporting Employees with Invisible Disabilities via Flexible Work

Alexandra Duval, Duygu Gulseren & E. Kevin Kelloway

- Workers with Disabilities: The Role of Flexible Employment Schemes

Eleftherios Giovanis & Oznur Ozdamar

- Lone Parents and Blended Families: Advocating Flexible Working to Support Families in Transition

Anneke Schaefer, Caroline Gatrell & Laura Radcliffe

- Employee FWA Needs and Requests and Employer Provisions across Age Groups

Bernice Kotey & Stuart Wark

- Flexible Working for Older Workers

Carol Atkinson

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Dr Sarah H. Norgate was formerly a Reader in Applied Developmental Psychology at the University of Salford, UK, and is a popular science author. Since completing her PhD at the University of Warwick, UK, she has widely published in both academic and practitioner journals and has enjoyed collaborating with diverse stakeholders on award-winning research. Sarah is also a fellow for life with the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust.

Sir Cary L. Cooper is the 50th Anniversary Professor of Organizational Psychology and Health at the ALLIANCE Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, UK, President of the CIPD and Co-Chair of the National Forum for Health and Wellbeing at Work.