CASE STUDY

Case Study



Case Study

Introduction

Companies are increasingly faced with changes of various types: economic, political, demographic, socio-cultural, ecological, technological and so on. The more the environment in which a company operates is changing and competitive, it must find ways to adapt quickly and economically to ensure its sustainability, its survival. More and more companies and various organizations (sites, offices, factories and shops, and restaurants hotels, department stores, the Post and hospitals, etc.) adopt various forms of work organization by creating flexible employment (Felan et al., 1993, 2487).

In the context of fierce competition international and low economic growth, employers recognize the need for a Working force more adaptable, multi-skilled and more flexible. This need is also felt in the employees who want both job security and arrangements for flexible role.

These forms of work organization are various denominations and realized by the development of telecommuting, work at home or distance, the top-sharing, the desk-sharing, job-sharing, part-time work, the Temporary work, working with the contract term, temporary work, the on-call, virtual work, work to lean, outsourcing or subcontracting, flexible hours, the atypical forms of remuneration, the parallel contracts (multiple employers) Loan labour and independents (Denton, 1992, 48). In this case, the hospital adopted an approach of multi-skilled workforce for their human resource. The change was part of strategic transformation in their human resource issues. They were employing a generic employee concept in order to achieve flexibility and response time of patients' needs. All the domestic staff was planned to be promoted to ward level, where they would be able to perform all domestic and portering role. This change involved all porters and domestic staff. According to the management, it would provide good value for money and prove to an effective cost saving strategy. This strategy did not settle with the workforce and the Union. They had concerns regarding the new approach, and eventually management had to cease the implementation of the new policy.

Discussion

Complete spaces have been devoted to the debate on labour flexibility, referring to the breakdown of traditional structures of work, tending to imply that some of the time is shared, to be fair with respect to family, and work performance is achieved and instances to create their own job skills the worker himself chooses alternative jobs that encourage creativity, and innovation in order to achieve better performance in the organization. The effect of the application of this new mechanism will work be the lack of regulation in the workplace, thereby producing in turn the dismantling of social security protection of the worker (Gopalakrishnan & Ahire, 1997, 827).

Forms of Work Flexibility

The flexibility of a system is the ability to turn to improve their integration in the environment and thus increase its probability of survival. In other words, flexibility is its "ability adaptation to uncertainty and emergency "ability to adapt to urgent and unanticipated changes in the environment. The company faces changes that occur in its environment, it must be flexible: it must have excess capacity it ...