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In: Social service review: SSR, Band 90, Heft 1, S. 1-2
ISSN: 1537-5404
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In: Social service review: SSR, Band 90, Heft 1, S. 1-2
ISSN: 1537-5404
In: Social service review: SSR, Band 89, Heft 1, S. 7-8
ISSN: 1537-5404
In: Social service review: SSR, Band 88, Heft 4, S. 549-552
ISSN: 1537-5404
In: Social service review: SSR, Band 88, Heft 1, S. 1-2
ISSN: 1537-5404
In: Human relations: towards the integration of the social sciences, Band 61, Heft 9, S. 1203-1227
ISSN: 1573-9716, 1741-282X
The goal of this article is to increase knowledge about the ways that front-line managers use scheduling practices to implement labor flexibility in low-skill, hourly jobs. Data come from a comparative study of 88 non-production jobs in 22 work sites in four industries (hospitality, retail, transportation, and financial services). The focus is on scheduling practices in part-time and full-time standard jobs that allow front-line managers to vary the number of hours employees work each week, the distribution of employees' hours across a week, and the number of employees scheduled for any hours week-to-week. The findings provide insight into the daily accountability requirements that press front-line managers to make quick adjustments to work schedules and the specific scheduling practices that enable them to do so. The discussion considers the extent to which these scheduling practices, like other labor flexibility practices, are implemented in ways that protect some workers from instability at the expense of others.
In: Journal of sociology & social welfare, Band 34, Heft 1
ISSN: 1949-7652
In: The annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Band 562, S. 174-190
ISSN: 0002-7162
Drawing on literature from the fields of work & family, public policy, & organizational sociology, current research is reviewed on the special challenges that confront lower-wage workers as they combine work & family responsibilities. Integrating knowledge from these fields leads to concerns about current welfare-to-work efforts & opens up new avenues for improving the prospects of lower-wage workers & their families. 60 References. Adapted from the source document.
In: Affilia: journal of women and social work, Band 8, Heft 4, S. 459-460
ISSN: 1552-3020
In: Social service review: SSR, Band 67, Heft 2, S. 237-260
ISSN: 1537-5404
In: Human relations: towards the integration of the social sciences, Band 43, Heft 3, S. 239-257
ISSN: 1573-9716, 1741-282X
This paper critically reviews the theoreticalframeworks currently used to explain the processes through which work and family are linked, i.e., segmentation, compensation, and spillover. In the literature, these processes are treated as competing explanations, even though evidence and logic suggests that all three operate to link work and family. Moreover, it is likely that other processes also link the two. Most notably, workers may limit their involvement in work, or in family life, so that they can better accommodate the demands of the other. Clarified causal models and suggestions for advancing knowledge in this area are presented and discussed. It is argued that a fuller understanding of the processes linking work and family life is necessary to adequately evaluate the effectiveness of the family supportive policies currently being implemented by many U.S. firms, as well as to identify additional strategies for helping workers find satisfaction in both their work and personal roles.
In: Journal of policy analysis and management: the journal of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, Band 16, Heft 3, S. 504-507
ISSN: 0276-8739
In: LEA's organization and management series
In: Applied Psychology Ser
In: Series in applied psychology
In: Journal of poverty: innovations on social, political & economic inequalities, Band 19, Heft 2, S. 153-176
ISSN: 1540-7608
In: The annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Band 695, Heft 1, S. 208-224
ISSN: 1552-3349
Over the last 40 years, changing employer practices have introduced instability and insecurity into working-class jobs, limiting the voice that employees have in their own employment and deteriorating overall job quality. In the decade after the Great Recession, slow but sustained economic growth benefitted workers in terms of generally higher employment and wages and reductions in involuntary part-time work. But we show that in that same period, other aspects of working-class jobs changed in ways that were less advantageous to workers. We examine recent, troubling trends in nonstandard employment, precarious scheduling practices, and employer labor violations, arguing that without the introduction of policies that rebalance terms of employment toward worker interests, an economic recovery alone is unlikely to reverse the overall trend toward reductions in job quality. We argue for federal-level policies that expand public insurance programs, establish minimum standards of job quality, and include avenues for collective employee voice in employment and public policy debates. Such strategies have potential to improve job quality.
In: Administrative science quarterly: ASQ ; dedicated to advancing the understanding of administration through empirical investigation and theoretical analysis, Band 50, Heft 4, S. 642-644
ISSN: 0001-8392