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Direct linkReid, David B.; Creed, Benjamin M. – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2023
The work of school principals is complex; however, little research has examined how they navigate this complexity outside of traditional settings and times. This specific line of inquiry is important, because principals' time allocation is related to various desirable student outcomes, and how many hours principals work (and when) is associated…
Descriptors: Principals, Working Hours, Time Management, Job Satisfaction
Download full textGlickman, Albert S.; Brown, Zenia H. – 1973
The past few years have been highlighted by management experiments with variants of a 4-day week (particularly in the U.S.) and flexible working time schedules (particularly in Europe). These are illustrations of the changing patterns of work and free time that have begun to assume the status of a new technology, and which are the objects of study…
Descriptors: Employment Patterns, Employment Practices, Fringe Benefits, Job Satisfaction
Brown, Bettina Lankard – 1999
New information technologies, changing work force demographics, rising customer expectations, transnational companies, and cost pressures are altering traditional views of what constitutes a workplace and have given rise to a new trend: the mobile worker in the flexible workplace. Two factors promote acceptance of telework or telecommuting: (1)…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Employer Employee Relationship, Employment Patterns, Flexible Working Hours
Barrett, Gerald V.; And Others – 1975
The annotated bibliography, review of literature, and glossary of terms contained in this document relate to current and past trends in job design. Topics covered are Quality of Work Life; Conceptual and Theoretical Framework for Job Design; Measurement of Tasks and Job Structural Attributes and Tasks; Survey Research on Job Design; Case, Field,…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Employment Patterns, Individual Characteristics, Job Analysis
Holden, Karen C.; And Others – 1981
Pre-Retirement Work Options is a demonstration project designed to develop and test alternative employment patterns for older workers in the Wisconsin Civil Service System. The program ws evaluated to determine the interest of older state workers in reducing their work hours prior to retirement as well as the impact of that reduction for those who…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Employee Attitudes, Employment Patterns, Gerontology
Zandniapour, Lily; Conway, Maureen – 2002
The Sectoral Employment Development Learning Project conducted a longitudinal survey of participants of industry-based workforce development programs about two years after completing training. Outcomes for unemployed and underemployed workers--77 percent of the sample--indicated increased hours worked and increased earnings per hour produced…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Employment Patterns, Employment Programs, Industrial Training
Interstate Conference of Employment Security Agencies, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1991
Technological and demographic changes affect the nation's employment landscape. The most consistent trend of the century has been the shrinking workweek. By the year 2000, many workers will spend only 32 hours per week at work. Other workplace changes will continue the quest for more work satisfaction: technical trends (flextime/telecommuting);…
Descriptors: Automation, Employment Patterns, Fringe Benefits, Futures (of Society)
Lebowitz, Ann, Ed. – 1977
A study was conducted to explore the relationship between socioeconomic and personal circumstances of women in health occupations and their labor market behavior. Using a conceptual framework (the Life Patterning Process), discussions were held in six states with a total of 279 women representing five health occupations: registered nurses,…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Guidance, Employed Women, Employer Employee Relationship
Fagan, Colette; Burchell, Brendan – 2002
Trends in gender, jobs, and working conditions in the European Union (EU) were examined. In 2000, representative samples of approximately 1,500 workers in each of the EU member states (500 in Luxembourg) were surveyed. To identify trends, the survey findings were compared with those of similar surveys conducted in 1991 and 1996. The comparison…
Descriptors: Employed Women, Employment Patterns, Employment Practices, Employment Qualifications
Joshi, Pamela; Carre, Francoise; Place, Angela; Rayman, Paula – 1996
The New Economic Equation Project opened in May 1995 with a 3-day working conference for 50 national leaders. The equation was defined as follows: economic well-being = integration of work, family, and community. Conference participants identified key economic, work, and family concerns facing the United States today. Outreach activities in…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Employed Parents, Employed Women, Employer Employee Relationship
Peer reviewedWhitehead, Linda; Russell, Susan – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 1997
Two practitioners address problem of employee turnover in child care centers. The first plan argues for comprehensive wage raises, increased benefits, and low cost options to workers that increase flexibility. The second strategy advocates continuing education opportunities, special mentoring programs, and bonuses or raises paid early in the…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Child Care Occupations, Child Caregivers, Day Care
de Wolff, Alice – 2000
A survey of 205 people, 4 group interviews with approximately 30 people, and 6 design and analysis meetings involving approximately 40 people were conducted in a 1999 participatory study of contingent workers in Toronto. (Contingent work was defined to be lower-waged forms of non-permanent work arrangements that include contracting, employment…
Descriptors: Adults, Employee Attitudes, Employer Attitudes, Employer Employee Relationship
Kodz, J.; Harper, H.; Dench, S. – 2002
The current status of British policy and practice related to work-life balance was examined through case studies of six organizations identified as having well-developed work-life balance and flexible working practices. Interviews were conducted with human resource (HR) managers at all six organizations, and interviews and focus group discussions…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Adult Learning, Case Studies, Employee Attitudes
