Description
Flexible Working Practices will help your organisation respond to the peaks and troughs of customer demand, help you to save money, and to recruit and retain the best employees.
Using case studies from leading organisations and many practical tools, the authors show you how to develop and implement effective and flexible working policies.Contents
Working out the Work-life Balance: the Employee Demand for Flexible Working
Making the Business Case: the Employer Push for Flexible Working
The Brave New World: Achieving Flexibilisation by Unlocking the Potential of Technology
Making Flexibility Work in Practice
Selling the Idea of Flexible Working and Managing Flexibility into your Business
About the authors
John Stredwick
John Stredwick is a senior lecturer in Human Resource Management at Luton Business School. Before joining the school he spent 20 years as a personnel practitioner in a variety of industries.Steve Ellis
Steve Ellis lives in the UK but has worked in 11 countries consulting for one of the world''''s largest financial institutions since 1999, joining them from academia as a specialist in management and OD.
He has co-authored textbooks in the fields of Organisational Behaviour and is also the author of Knowledge Based Working, Guidance for Intelligent Organisations (2005).
In 2004 Steve founded a web-based guidance service (www.knowledgedoctor.com) to provide guidance for executives struggling with the knowledge age. In this way, Steve has been able to convert his experience and research findings into practical applications for executives who both need and value his advice. Steve presents regularly at KM Conferences, and conducts seminars at the LSE and other Business Schools around the world. He spoke at the launch of the London Knowledge Network. He is also a member of the British Standards Knowledge Committee responsible for writing and publishing universal standards.