Study Notes: People Management

Flexible working - job sharing

Job sharing involves dividing a single full-time job between two people who share the responsibility, pay and benefits.

Jobs can be shared between two people on a:

- Daily basis, with one sharer working mornings and the other afternoons

- Weekly basis, with sharers working half a week each

Another method is for sharers to work alternate weeks.

When deciding how to split a job, several factors should be considered:

• The flexibility of the job sharers

• The need for any overlap (e.g. an hour to "hand-over" the current issues of the job)

• Travel costs (for example, if these are significant, the use alternate week sharing may reduce costs through the purchase of weekly tickets)

Advantages of job sharing

Job sharing has several advantages:

• Job sharing allows businesses to recruit skilled, experienced workers who may not be available for or willing to do full-time work

• It allows one position to be filled by two people with different but complementary experience

• It provides some continuity if one sharer leaves or is absent

Disadvantages of job sharing

• Job sharing involves some additional administrative and training costs and extra time spent on supervision and communication

• Where job sharers have managerial responsibilities staff may find it difficult or confusing to work for two people

• Some job sharers may feel that they are achieving proportionately more than a full-time employee and that they are being inadequately paid

 

 


 

HRM Strategy

HRM introduction  HRM objectives  HRM influences  Hard & Soft HRM  

Organisational Structure

Org charts  Delayering  Span of control  Centralisation & decentralisation  Matrix structures  

Motivation at work

What is motivation?   Theory - Maslow  Theory - Herzberg  Theory - Taylor  Theory - McGregor  

Financial motivation  Pay Package  Time rate  Piece rate  Commission  Performance pay  

Share options  Job rotation  Job enlargement  Delegation & empowerment  

Recruitment & Training

Recruitment intro  Internal / external  Job descriptions  Interviews  Job analysis  

Job advertising  Person specification  Training - intro  Induction training  On-the-job training  Off-the-job training  

Workforce planning

Workforce planning  Flexible working  Benefits & issues  Labour supply  Workforce roles & workload  

Annual hours  Job sharing  Temporary staff  Teleworking   Flexible hours  

Communication

Overview  Barriers  Benefits  Employee Representation  


 

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