W2: The Flexible Workplace — Strategies for Your Organization

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WorldatWork/AWLP Member rate for this course and exam: $1,020

Non-member rate: $1,540
Your WFC Resources discount rate: $1295.

Heighten Employee and Organizational Effectiveness

Course Overview

This course will provide participants with the fundamentals of workplace flexibility. It will give them a process for building a flexible workplace that maximizes employees' and organizational effectiveness. You'll discuss specific examples of practices in the Workplace Flexibility category and gain a solid understanding of why an organization would implement these practices. On the third morning, an optional certification exam covers the content of this course.

Who Should Attend

The course is intended for human resources professionals and business leaders with an interest in and responsibility for work-life programs that are designed to attract, retain and motivate employees.

What You Will Learn

Introduction to Workplace Flexibility

What is the total rewards model and its affect on attraction, retention and motivation of employees
Explanation of how work-life effectiveness strategies integrate with the total rewards model
Definition of workplace flexibility

Identifying Flexibility Needs and Issues

How workplace flexibility issues and needs are identified
How root causes of identified issues are determined
Approaches for scanning the cultural environment (internal and external)
How qualitative and quantitative data are analyzed and packaged for presentation

Flexibility Strategies

Components of a successful flexibility strategy
How to draft a strategy and create an effective business case for workplace flexibility
Various approaches for achieving the flexibility strategy (flextime, compressed workweek, PT schedule, job sharing, telecommuting, shift and leave flexibility, etc.)

Solutions for Developing, Planning and Implementing

How to assemble the workplace flexibility team
Appropriate applications of the solutions and programs in order to address flexibility issues and needs
How to create an action plan linking business and HR systems and policies (i.e. time systems, headcount, tracking systems, HRIS systems, performance management etc.)
How to successfully implement the plan (training, communication, etc.)

Measurement and Evaluation

How to measure and evaluate the success of the workplace flexibility solution
How to present the evaluation data and provide continuous improvement for workplace flexibility solutions and programs

Registration cost

WorldatWork/AWLP Member rate for this course and exam: $1,020

Non-member rate: $1,540
Your WFC Resources discount rate: $1295.

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Latest Research...

Compressed week helps shiftworkers achieve balance

A review of 40 studies by UK researchers is suggesting that a shorter work week may mitigate the detrimental health effects of shiftwork while improving morale and productivity. The research team reviewed 40 studies that explored the work-life balance of shiftworkers, including the health effects of a shift-working lifestyle. Twenty percent of all European workers are involved with shiftwork in one form or another, usually working five 8-hour periods. These researchers concluded that both the employee and the employer may benefit from three or four 12-hour days instead. Reporting in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, the researchers identified digestive problems, fatigue, sleep difficulties, and stress-induced illness as common complaints from shiftworkers. They’re also prone to missing work due to illness more often than those who work during standard business hours. Using self-reported feedback from workers, they found no ill effects on workers’ health when working the shorter week. The study also found no evidence of diminished productivity or loss of competitive edge. The team, made up of researchers from several British universities, concluded that a compressed week may lead to a healthier work environment, enhancing both well-being and productivity.
# 24027 MED HEADLINES, 8-16-08

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