Types of flexibility required by the employees at workplace


Flexibility can be regarded as key concept inmanaging people in adynamic businessenvironment where it is considered as the empowerment of the employees in order to undertake their assigned job duties and responsibilities as per their own plan as long as assigned responsibilities are executed.

Therefore, there are several reasons for the employees to required flexibility at work place.

Table 1- Reasons for employee flexibility

Source : (Hogarty, 2021)

Competitiveness

The level of competition prevailing in the market would be different from company to company where the time for flexibility to working arrangements needs to be changed accordingly.

Adaptiveness

Adaptiveness towards distinctive activities at work place needs to be evaluated where a flexibility needs to be assigned to the employees until they adapt new changes for the work scope.

Technological impact

There are numerous technological changes being implemented within an organization where a flexibility should be required for the employees adopt continuous changes for the work scopes as well as the business processes.

New structures

When there is a new structural change within the organization, flexibility needs to be created.

Therefore, there are four types of flexibilities required by the employees at work place which can be evaluated as follows.

Table 2-Types of flexibilities

Source: (mindtools.com, 2022), (HASTWELL, 2022)

Functional flexibility

There should be a possibility of moving employees between jobs where this type is linked with a learning organization

Numeral flexibility

There can be situations where the organizations have to change the number of employees being employed within an organization within a short notice where there are flexibilities of recruiting such requirements through secondary labour markets such as casual employees, art timers, school leavers and so on.

Temporal Flexibility

There are organizations with a time flexibility in terms of working hours, shifts, compressed hours and so on based on the nature of the work being performed.

Financial flexibility

There are flexibilities of pay schemes where it can be comprised of performance based payments, non-wage remunerations, bonuses, commissions and so on.


References

HASTWELL, C., 2022. What Is Workplace Flexibility? Definitions & Examples from Top Workplaces. [Online]
Available at: https://www.greatplacetowork.com/resources/blog/what-is-workplace-flexibility-definitions-examples-from-top-workplaces
[Accessed 8 12 2022].

Hogarty, S., 2021. What is flexibility in the workplace?. [Online]
Available at: https://www.wework.com/ideas/professional-development/management-leadership/flexibility-in-the-workplace
[Accessed 8 12 2022].

mindtools.com, 2022. How to Be Flexible in the Workplace. [Online]
Available at: https://www.mindtools.com/aheuvl6/how-to-be-flexible-in-the-workplace
[Accessed 8 12 2022].

Comments

  1. shayanika83December 10, 2022 at 6:38 AM

    Flexible is a key component that employee needs to have .in this article it is clearly mentioned the type of flexibility and easy to understand when employee need to be flexible

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  2. NMM. NuhmanDecember 10, 2022 at 6:43 AM

    This blog has given a fair amount of information about the types of flexibility, but it would be more appropriate if the discussion of flexibility included the context of when to use flexibility.

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  3. Chamara ranasingheDecember 10, 2022 at 7:53 AM

    Flexiblity is very important factor when greivences handling.financial flexibility make more sensitive than others.

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  4. THILAMBALMUDecember 10, 2022 at 8:07 AM

    Functional flexibility, which includes activities like job autonomy and training, focuses on changing the nature of the work being done or how employees are required to carry it out. The decision of compensation is referred to as cost (or wage) flexibility; examples include merit pay and performance-related pay.

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  5. Rifky AhmedDecember 10, 2022 at 9:09 AM

    It's essential to keep in consideration that each employee perceives job satisfaction differently. The factors that make one employee feel good about their employment/environment might not apply to another employee in the same organization under the same circumstances (BasuMallick, 2021).

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  6. Muhammad Salahudeen Muhammad December 10, 2022 at 9:10 AM

    after covid 19 and new normal working at our own flexibility is very important factor

    ReplyDelete

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