FLEXIBLE WORKING HOURS

The concept of flexible working hours in HRM

The concept of flexible working hours in HRM

Introduction

The concept of Human Resource Department is quite high in every organization. There are several roles that organizations need to perform for managing the overall HR affairs in the organization. A task has been assigned by the Human Resource Director to an employee working in the HR Department. The task is to prepare a report for the Store Managers on the implementation of flexible working hours within the organization. The foremost requirement is to assess the positive aspects and challenges of flexible working hours in the organization. The implementation of flexible working hours provides employees some preference over the actual hours they work under the contractual terms. The enforcement of this system has an ability of meeting the right standard of recruiting, and, retaining staff. It gives them an opportunity for employees to work consistently with their other commitments. There are several flexible working hours' schemes that have a duration of daylight hours, when the chances of the presence of employees is quite high during the working day. Employees even get the option of selecting their own time frame for working hours. Some of the schemes provide a lot of comfort in terms of flexible working hours for the employees. It is clear that these working hours certainly help the employees in doing their work without facing a lot of problem. Therefore, all issues related to flexible working hours have been discussed in detail.

What is Flexible work?

The concept of flexibility and flexible Work is the terms, used for describing numerous work styles and practices of employment. If anyone can speak broadly, these terms, utilized for describing the other kinds of employment that differs from conventional 9-5 full time job with the existence of permanent contract. The "flexible" aspect of this employment in various situations has a relationship with several employees or some of the employers. The aspect should be seen from the employee's point of view, because it might give them the freedom to arrange their employment opportunities to be established with other parts of their life. For an employer, flexibility might come to arrange labour resources in line with the changing needs of customers, or with the overall demands in the whole HR environment (Delery, 1998, 42).

The application of flexible working hours in HRM

There are a large number of employees who want to have flexible working hours for acquiring a reasonable balance between their job, and, other life related activities. While there are several organisations that look to provide comfort to their employees, but they are only doing it to achieve certain objectives that would help them in the future. There are certain benefits that range from increased motivation, high productivity and retention for providing good customer service and significant drop in both costs and CO2. However, some of the employers still try to avoid the strong business case for flexible working hours (Bosch, 1995, ...