Making Part-Time Work

Why We Need to Redesign Work
1. Auflage 2027
ISBN: 978-1-5292-5893-6
Verlag: Bristol University Press

Buch, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm

There is an urgent need for more high-quality part-time jobs, both to get more people into work and to improve worker wellbeing and job performance. Too often, part-time opportunities are badly designed or career-limiting. What would it take to get employers to create more and better part-time jobs?

Charlotte Gascoigne presents the business case evidence for part-time working and argues for a radical rethink of how jobs are designed. More than 40 case studies across a range of occupations demonstrate how managers who take a collaborative approach to work design can create more effective and productive part-time jobs.

Aimed at employers, HR professionals and policy makers, this book calls on employers and governments to bring part-time work into the mainstream, for the benefit of workers, organizations and the economy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gascoigne, Charlotte

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Office Management, Büroorganisation
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Personalwesen, Human Resource Management
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Wirtschaftssoziologie, Arbeitssoziologie, Organisationssoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

1. What is Part-Time Working?

2. Who Works Part-Time and Why?

3. Why Do Employers Support Part-Time Working?

4. How Can Employers Make Part-Time Work?

5. How Can Individuals Make Part-Time Work?

6. What’s Next? Debates About Part-Time Working and the Future of Work

Über Autor(innen)

Dr Charlotte Gascoigne is an independent researcher and consultant with 25 years’ experience of working with employers on part-time and flexible working. Her recent roles have included Principal Research Fellow at Cranfield University, where she worked on an ESRC-funded project exploring part-time work, and Director of Research and Consultancy at the Timewise Foundation. Her PhD investigated part-time work design for managers and professionals in the UK and the Netherlands.