Flexible Workplace Pocketbook
by Anne Dickens (a Swiftwork consultant)
Flexible working recognizes individuals’ differing needs, lifestyles and life stages. It’s about creating an environment in which people can achieve a work-life balance that leads to fulfilment inside and outside their place of work. The Flexible Workplace Pocketbook looks at the reasons for creating a flexible working environment and at the benefits for the individual and for the employer and its customers. Flexible working options are many and varied. They involve an organisation changing where, when and how their employees work. The Flexible Workplace Pocketbook explores the different options for flexible working, looks at how to introduce flexibility across the organisation, how to encourage ‘flexible behaviour’ and how to measure its success.
122 pages (2005)
Publisher: Management Pocketbooks; ISBN: 1 903776 40 6
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The IRS Handbook of Flexible Working - law and practice
Edited by Louis Wustemann (a Swiftwork consultant)
Foreword by Alan Denbigh of the Telework Association
The IRS Handbook of Flexible Working is a unique new handbook that shows you how to make flexible working succeed for your organisation. It covers all the key aspects of flexible working, including the latest legal and best practice developments, model contracts and policies, case studies and benchmarking checklists. Plus it contains the results and analysis of the first comprehensive survey of flexible working in the UK in over five years.
The handbook will show you how to set up and manage a flexible working strategy, monitor its effectiveness and benchmark it against other named organisations. Highly practical and easy to use, it is subdivided into five key subject areas, Telework; Flexible offices; Flexible time; Case studies; and the new Flexible working survey, with a case law section and checklists at the end of each chapter.
This handbook is a practical guide to improving employees' work life balance, retaining key staff, saving office space and improving customer services.
Paperback 250 pages (2001)
Publisher: IRS LexisNexis, ISBN: 0406947015
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Time Management 24/7: How to double your effectiveness
by Simon Phillips (a Swiftwork consultant)
How can you improve your time management? Cram more in? Make sacrifices? Do less? Traditional time management techniques are no longer sufficient in our 24/7 economy.
With the constant bombardment of e-mails, telephone calls and meetings, it is all too easy to forget good time management principles both in and outside of working life.
Effective time management is about developing a personal approach to an increasingly complex challenge. Only by fully understanding your motivations for improving time management and by actively changing your behaviour, will you be able to double your effectiveness and achieve a better balance in life.
Time Management 24/7 introduces a host of unique tools and models that will help you to: Pinpoint your own motivation for improving time management Identify what your priorities are both in and outside your working life Understand your personality traits and work with those of other people Break free from the real (and imaginary) constraints of the digital age and get a life!
The author looks at the benefits of using electronic time management tools alongside the more traditional time management principles. He examines the latest options available, how to choose the most appropriate tools for you and how to get the best use out of them. Whether you are a busy executive, a social lunatic, a keen organiser or a person who just can't say no, this book will provide the answers for you.
Paperback 200 pages (2002)
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education;
ISBN: 007709963X
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Teleworking in brief
by Mike Johnson
From the people who work exclusively from home to the 'portable' manager with no fixed site, the need to communicate is paramount. Mike Johnson's candid appraisal of teleworking, or telecommuting as it is also known, looks at the key benefits: for the individual it provides the opportunity to work from home; for the company it provides major savings on costs. The down side is the lack of human contact and the anxiety of employees who work away from the centre of things.
From the people who work exclusively from home to the "portable" manager with no fixed site, the need to communicate is paramount. Mike Johnson's candid appraisal of teleworking looks at the key benefits: for the individual it provides the opportunity to work from home; for the company it provides major savings on costs. The down side is the lack of human contact and the anxiety of employees who work away from the centre of things. Through the extensive use of case studies, interviews and real-life examples from the people involved, Johnson steers a common-sense course through the consultants' jargon, seeking to provide a balanced view of the capabilities of networking.
Paperback 168 pages (1997)
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann; ISBN: 0750628758
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Work-Life Integration: Case Studies of Organisational Change
by Suzan Lewis and Cary L. Cooper
Developments in IT and communication technology, coupled with the global 24 hour market, have led to boundaries between work and personal life becoming ever more blurred, while work/life policies and practice struggle to keep up.
This book aims to challenge traditional thinking on work life balance, and to explore different ways of promoting change at many levels. It provides a historical overview of the topic, critiques contemporary approaches and offers creative ideas for integrating work and personal life in local, national and global contexts.
Paperback 188 pages (Jan 2005)
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd; ISBN: 0-470-85343-3
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101 Tips for Telecommuters: Successfully Manage Your Work, Team, Technology and Family
by Debra A. Dinnocenzo
Speaking to full-time, occasional and aspiring telecommuters, seasoned telecommuter Debra Dinnocenzo offers practical, easy-to-implement "action tips" for making telecommuting as efficient and productive as possible.
She covers everything from managing one's own time, balancing telecommuting with family demands, and working effectively with others from afar, to networking the "virtual" way, getting a grip on technological overkill and even resisting the ever-beckoning refrigerator when working at home! There is advice on self-management, keeping in touch with people, and nurturing crucial ties with suppliers, vendors and service providers.
Paperback 120 pages (1999)
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Inc; ISBN: 01576750698
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The Heart of Success - Making it in business without losing in life
by Rob Parsons
The IRS Handbook of Flexible Working - law and practice is a unique new handbook that shows you how to make flexible working succeed for your organisation. It covers all the key aspects of flexible working, including the latest legal and best practice developments, model contracts and policies, case studies and benchmarking checklists. Plus it contains the results and analysis of the first comprehensive survey of flexible working in the UK in over five years.
The handbook will show you how to set up and manage a flexible working strategy, monitor its effectiveness and benchmark it against other named organisations. Highly practical and easy to use, it is subdivided into five key subject areas, Telework; Flexible offices; Flexible time; Case studies; and the new Flexible working survey, with a case law section and checklists at the end of each chapter.
This handbook is a practical guide to improving employees' work life balance, retaining key staff, saving office space and improving customer services.
Paperback and Audiobook (2002)
Publisher: Hodder and Stoughton; ISBN 034078623X
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Back to Work - A Guide for Women Returners
by Diana Wolfin and Susan Foreman
Many women today face the daunting prospect of returning to the workplace and their careers after taking time off, often to start or raise a family, or due to a period of redundancy. This informative, practical and highly readable guide offers advice for all women who wish to return to work following a career break.
Back to Work clearly covers important issues such as restoring self-confidence and identity, explores motivation and practicalities (what you want to do, where and how, training courses and taking the plunge), and examines childcare options available. It also looks at strategies for creating an optimal work-life balance, and how to deal with issues such as sexism and ageism. Finally, this invaluable guide concludes with a comprehensive directory of useful organisations, associations, agencies and resources.
Paperback (2003)
Publisher: Robson; ISBN 18661055889
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Flexible and Virtual Working
by Steve Shipside
Fast track route to getting the most out of being a remote worker.
Covers all the key aspects of flexible and virtual working, from teleworking and homeworking to groupware and virtual call centers.
Lessons and tips from some of the world's great remote work successes, such as AT&T and Lasair, and ideas from the smartest thinkers, including Alvin Toffler and Gil Gordon.
Paperback 116 pages (2001)
Publisher: Capstone Express Exec; ISBN: 1841122009
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Work-Life Balance - Change the way you live with work
by Gordon and Ronni Lamont
This book offers innovative solutions to the work-life juggling act.
It shows how to identify personal priorities and suggests practical ways to help you fit them into your life.
Paperback 86 pages (2001)
Publisher: Sheldon Press; ISBN: 0859698483
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Balancing Work & Life (Essential Managers)
by Robert Holden and Ben Renshaw
This title offers bite-sized chunks of information to help equip managers with the skills to meet new challenges, improve efficiency and be successful. It aims to show how to manage life successfully by creating a healthy balance between personal and working life.
Simple checklists are included which should enable you to take control and stay motivated and flow charts and diagrams explore different options for taking action.
Paperback 72 pages (2002)
Publisher: Dorling Kindersley; ISBN: 0751333654
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