W2: The Flexible Workplace — Strategies for Your Organization

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WorldatWork/AWLP Member rate for this course and exam: $1,020

Non-member rate: $1,540
Your WFC Resources discount rate: $1295.

Heighten Employee and Organizational Effectiveness

Course Overview

This course will provide participants with the fundamentals of workplace flexibility. It will give them a process for building a flexible workplace that maximizes employees' and organizational effectiveness. You'll discuss specific examples of practices in the Workplace Flexibility category and gain a solid understanding of why an organization would implement these practices. On the third morning, an optional certification exam covers the content of this course.

Who Should Attend

The course is intended for human resources professionals and business leaders with an interest in and responsibility for work-life programs that are designed to attract, retain and motivate employees.

What You Will Learn

Introduction to Workplace Flexibility

What is the total rewards model and its affect on attraction, retention and motivation of employees
Explanation of how work-life effectiveness strategies integrate with the total rewards model
Definition of workplace flexibility

Identifying Flexibility Needs and Issues

How workplace flexibility issues and needs are identified
How root causes of identified issues are determined
Approaches for scanning the cultural environment (internal and external)
How qualitative and quantitative data are analyzed and packaged for presentation

Flexibility Strategies

Components of a successful flexibility strategy
How to draft a strategy and create an effective business case for workplace flexibility
Various approaches for achieving the flexibility strategy (flextime, compressed workweek, PT schedule, job sharing, telecommuting, shift and leave flexibility, etc.)

Solutions for Developing, Planning and Implementing

How to assemble the workplace flexibility team
Appropriate applications of the solutions and programs in order to address flexibility issues and needs
How to create an action plan linking business and HR systems and policies (i.e. time systems, headcount, tracking systems, HRIS systems, performance management etc.)
How to successfully implement the plan (training, communication, etc.)

Measurement and Evaluation

How to measure and evaluate the success of the workplace flexibility solution
How to present the evaluation data and provide continuous improvement for workplace flexibility solutions and programs

Registration cost

WorldatWork/AWLP Member rate for this course and exam: $1,020

Non-member rate: $1,540
Your WFC Resources discount rate: $1295.

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Latest Research...

New study: more flexibility linked to better health
Feb. 19th: A new evidence review suggests that giving employees more flexibility in their work schedules is likely to boost their health through reduced blood pressure and stress. But interventions that are motivated or dictated by the needs of the employer, such as cutting hours, either have no effect on employee health or make it worse. "Control at work is good for health,” said review co-author Clare Bambra, a researcher at Durham University in England. “Given the absence of ill health effects associated with employee-controlled flexibility, and the evidence of some positive improvements in some health outcomes,” Bambra said, more flexibility in work schedules “has the potential to promote healthier workplaces and improve work practices.” In addition to physical risks, the workplace can pose a threat to health due to factors like high workloads, time pressures, lack of control and limited social interaction with others, said review lead author Kerry Joyce, also a researcher at Durham University. Stress, in turn, can contribute to conditions like heart disease, depression and anxiety.

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