SMEs and flexible working arrangements
- Author/Editor(s):
- Shirley Dex, Fiona Scheibl
- Format:
- Paperback , 56 pages , 297 x 210 mm
- ISBN
- 9781861344328
- Published:
- 27 May 2002
- Series:
- Family and Work series
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About This Book
This report examines flexible working arrangements in small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) - an important and large sector that has been under-researched. It compares employees' responses and needs in firms with and without family-friendly policies in order to more clearly identify what are genuinely family-friendly arrangements and good practice.The report should be read by human resource managers, owners and managers of SMEs, policy makers in central and local government, as well as academics, students and researchers with an interest in industrial relations, human resource management, and work and family life.
Contents
Introduction
Research methods
The organisations in their local economy context
Types of responses to the work-family challenge
Employees' responses to their employers
Problems of introducing or extending flexible provisions
Ways of transferring practice
Conclusions.
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