Enabling Business Managers to Automate Staff Scheduling for Improving Business Profitability
To compete in a global economy many businesses are operating 24/7 or extended hours.

Scheduling staff to meet business requirements has become a complex task. Staff scheduling is not an IT or HR problem, it is a business manager's problem. Furthermore, business managers who undertake this process manually will spend considerable time to deliver good schedules. This white paper describes how business goals are achieved when business managers are provided with the tools to deliver staff scheduling strategy. It describes how costs can be controlled and harmony in the workplace maintained.

 

Staff Scheduling: The neglected management skill?
To compete in a global economy many businesses are operating 24/7 or extended hours.

This document highlights the problems businesses face, and how the right workforce scheduling software should engage the management skills of line supervisors and business managers when and where it is needed most.

 

Home Office Study: Police resource management
In-depth study about police resource management in the UK.

This Home Office Report in partnership with Accenture provides an in-depth study about police resource management in the UK, including references to other law enforcement agencies in the USA and Europe. Key findings include variable shift arrangements offer the best supply-demand match and provide up to 70% more officers on duty at peak times. Overall assessment challenges two commonly held views that policing needs unique shift patterns and business requirements and officer needs will always be at odds with one another.

 

Coping with Shift Work: The impact on women´s health
The physiological effects and specific hazards among women shift workers.

Sue Woolfenden Q.P.M., B.A., Ph.D. brings many years operational experience and disciplined research into the issues surrounding the physiological effects and specific hazards among women shift workers. Woolfenden outlines what can be done about reducing these effects and highlights corporate responsibility for designing good schedules.

 

Beyond Boundaries: The emerging work culture of independence and responsibility
Market drivers and flexible working strategies emerging in today's competitive markets.

Flexible working is probably one of the most over-used and least understood phrases in business. It's up there with blue-sky thinking and synergy. What is meant by flexible working is rarely straight forward, the phrase can be interpreted in very different ways by employees and organisations. This Orange Future Enterprise Coalition report provides a comprehensive account about the market drivers and flexible working strategies emerging in today's competitive markets.

 

The 24/7 work life balance survey 2008
Market drivers and flexible working strategies emerging in today's competitive markets.

Authorative UK research published by The Work Life Balance Centre in association with Coventry University and University of Wolverhampton Business School. This report not only provides statistical data for reference but also clear interesting commentary that makes an informative read. It also has the benefit of comparative analysis with previous research.

 

ACAS: Changing patterns of work
Market drivers and flexible working strategies emerging in today's competitive markets.

This whitepaper is intended to assist anyone dealing with or affected by Changing Patterns of Work. It is one of a series of booklets and handbooks designed to give impartial advice on employment matters to employers, employees and their representatives.