Dramatic changes in the composition of today s workforce combined with intense competitive pressures on employers, call for new ways of structuring where, when, and how employees accomplish their job responsibilities. This book makes the business case for flexible working in an organization, and shows how flexitime, job sharing, telecommuting, and compressed work weeks can be used as strategic management tools. Key features:
* identifies ways flexible work arrangements can be designed to enhance the personal well-being and job performance of employees, while improving the corporate...

Health management within organizations is an issue which is gaining in significance. Not only are there increasing incidents of litigation related to workplace health, but organizations are now able to really count the costs of inadequate provision on their bottom line profitability, particularly through the price of absenteeism, both genuine and non-genuine. Based on a BUPA CBI survey of unpublished data from large scale studies in health management and risk assessment, this book is a practical guide for managers charged with creating a healthy workplace - healthy in terms of mental,...