Balanced Workplace Flexibility: Avoiding the Traps Harvard Case Solution & Analysis

This informative article identifies three types of snares that may come when implementing workplace flexibility -altered work-life dynamics, weakened organizational culture, and reduced fairness perceptions -and provides hard lessons for supervisors seeking a balanced flexibility strategy.

First, managers must become flex-understanding to understand the variation which exists in flexibility practices to align implementation together with organizational context and the work force. Second, implementing flexibility mustn't be treated as an accommodation but as a more comprehensive systemic organizational change empowering individuals and teams. The article provides a Worksmart case to emphasize as well as implement balanced workplace flexibility across multiple stakeholder interests and the best way to avoid tricks.

PUBLICATION DATE: September 01, 2015 PRODUCT #: CMR598-PDF-ENG

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