Flexible Work Arrangement

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Definitions of the terms The subsequent definitions were applied to form the basis of this research. Flexible work Arrangement:- Flexible working arrangement (FWA): can be defined as providing with employees different chances to make some sort of adjustments to their total amount of hours worked such as part time work or job shares etc (Rahim et al, 2014). Alternative or flexible work arrangements can be of different types. Majorly, they can be divided into location flexibility and schedule flexibility (Rahim et al, 2014). Job Sharing:- Job Sharing is type of flexible work arrangement where two employees will share work of one full-time position between themselves, and their pay and remuneration will be divided between the two according …show more content…

Flextime:- Flextime is defined as an alternate flexible work arrangement where employees are allowed to vary the times they start and end their work, outside the set core-time and are compensation over a contract value of work hours (Peter, Sile and Orla, 2010). Work Life Balance:- In this study, a situational definition of work-life balance is used. According to Reiter (2007) the situational definition of work life balance will allow an individual to actually define the term work life balance that is based on his or her own satisfaction and positive outlook in both professional and personal roles. Reiter (2007) reports that this involves five items asking respondents how often they feel that their job negatively affects their psychological well-being, that their job negatively affects their physical health, tension about balancing all their responsibilities, that they should change something about their work to balance all their responsibilities, and that personal commitments interfere with their …show more content…

Chapter 1 confer an overview of the problem of the research it also contains background of the problem along with the research questions, objectives, scope, gaps of the research to be worked on in the future and the main contributions that the research brought forward. The second chapter (chapter 2) is on literature review which discussed all the variables of the research in detail and all the variables were critically evaluated using the knowledge from the previous researchers already done. This literature was then used to formulate the conceptual framework and hypotheses. The hypotheses formulated using the literature was then tested in chapter 4. Chapter 3 is of research methodology, in this chapter the researcher has discussed the type of research and philosophy has been selected to carry out the research. This chapter also discusses the population, sample derived from the population, type of instrument selected for the collection of data, through which means and process data was collected and the tool used for the statistical analysis of the data. Chapter 4 contains the results generated after the statistical analysis of the data collected. Chapter 5 concludes that all the research questions raised in the first chapter are answered and solved after being empirically tested. The answers reached are also compared with the previous researches to analyze that the conclusion reached with this research matches with the previous

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