Flexible working arrangements in context: An empirical investigation through self-organizing maps
| Autor: | Stavrou-Costea, Eleni, Spiliotis, Stelios, Charalambous, Chris |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Stavrou-Costea, Eleni [0000-0003-2623-2291] |
| Rok vydání: | 2010 |
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Information Systems and Management
General Computer Science media_common.quotation_subject Context (language use) Absenteeism (Labor) Investigations Management Science and Operations Research Human capital Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Kohonen self-organizing map (SOM) Absenteeism Operations management Human resources media_common Turnover (Business) Employees Self-organizing maps business.industry Staff management Flexible work arrangements Turnover Shift systems Modeling and Simulation Service (economics) Human resource management Demographic economics Flexible work arrangements (FWAs) Business Factor analysis |
| Zdroj: | European Journal of Operational Research |
| ISSN: | 0377-2217 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.ejor.2009.06.021 |
| Popis: | This is one of the first studies to utilize Kohonen’s self-organizing maps on flexible work arrangements (FWAs), employee turnover and absenteeism within different national contexts and an array of organizational factors. While the majority of FWAs did not reduce significantly employee turnover or absenteeism, country and industry were significant contextual variables in FWA use: we deciphered six main country regions, where service and manufacturing organizations were important to FWA preferences. We found a curvilinear relationship between turnover and shift-work among manufacturing firms regardless of country: turnover decreases at low levels and increases at high levels of shift-work. We also found strong positive relationships between weekend work and turnover among manufacturing firms regardless of country and firms in the region comprising of Germany, Austria, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Czech Republic and Belgium. Finally, we found consistently high concentration of organizations with low absenteeism throughout certain industries and countries: noteworthy are service organizations in the Netherlands and manufacturing organizations in Australia. The results demonstrate the contextuality of FWA use across countries and industries, and the usefulness of SOMs for research within human resource management. Copyright &y& Elsevier] Copyright of European Journal of Operational Research is the property of Elsevier Science and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.) 202 3 893 902 |
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