Disadvantages Of Flexible Working

LO 2.3. – Assess the use of flexible working practices from both the employee and the employer perspective

Flexible working practices have advantages and disadvantages. A major argument for using flexible working within an organization is that it plays a very important role in its success and it can be used as strategic tool, because if an employee have the chance of flexible working arrangement, he become more motivated and committed, which means he will be more satisfied with his work, gets more emotionally involved and his opinion about the organization will be better, which increases organization`s prestige. (UK essays, 2015)

The advantages and disadvantages for employer are showed in the next table:

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LO 2.4. - Discuss the impact that changes in the labor market have had on flexible working practices

The labor market flexibility is about the ability of labor to adapt at the market conditions change, even at changes regarding wage rate and labor demand. Overall performance of labor market flexibility influences the achievement of macro-economic objectives, because this flexibility is the central part of supply-side of macro-economy. (Economics)

The labor market flexibility can be affected by: (Koshiro, 1992)

Mobility of labor – occupational (employees might want to change the job with another one), geographical mobility (from different reasons, employees might want to move from a region to another one), industrial mobility (moving from an industry to another). In the private university, we can face occupational and geographical mobility, so we can hire teachers from different areas or locations or we can lose teachers because they

national pay bargaining – teachers have to be paid also according to local conditions, especially ones from migration or relocated, because they have to be able to meet their financial needs, such as rent.

Making work pay – if the benefits of being unemployed are too high, then too less people will want to work, therefore, the reward gap between work and non-work has to be big. (Economics)

Skills and training – multi-skilled teachers are more able to adapt their job patterns for responding at changing demand conditions. For example, can be teachers who work part-time on History and part-time on English. He can also train subsidies, which similarly improve labor mobility.

Barriers to entry and exit – labor becomes less flexible if there are barriers to entry (such as a certain previous experience, diplomas or universities, age, gender, racial) or to exit (because of notice periods).

Ability to hire or fire – an organization is more opened to fire people when demand decreases and to hire new employee when demand increases. If there is excessive legislation regarding to companies` ability to hire or fire a person, then labor flexibility is