Flexible Work: Designing Our Healthier Future Lives examines flexible working from a psychological perspective and presents research evidence from social science to address what forms of flexible working there are and how they are evolving. Bringing together views from thought-leaders, research evidence and recommendations around making flexible working work, 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. Academics and thought-leaders from around the world provide perspectives 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, HR practitioners, policy-influencers, policymakers and professionals interested in flexible work.
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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
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.
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