Part-Time Work: Its Evolution and Results

Work Motivation: A Study on Regular and Part-time Employees of Bangladesh

Nowadays both part-time as well as regular employees are working in many organizations of Bangladesh. Though many studies have been conducted to know the motivation status of regular employees but no study is found that addressed motivations status of both regular and part-time employees of Bangladesh. Thus, this study is conducted on 300 regular and part-time employees of Bangladesh to know th...

Part-Time Work and Work Norms in the Netherlands

We argue that in the Netherlands, due to the growth of part-time work, work norms have declined. The mechanism behind this norm change is in the changed organization of family life. The increased labour market participation of women has put the traditional organization of family life under pressure. Working mothers in the Netherlands opt for part-time jobs, thus sacrificing career opportunities...

School students and part-time work: Workplace problems and challenges

May I Work Part-Time? An Exploration of Predicted Employer Responses to Employee Requests for Part-Time Work

Increasing numbers of professional and managerial employees are requesting a shift from full-time to part-time work. In a policy-capturing study, 200 attorneys (including both partners and associates) rated how likely their firms would be to accept different hypothetical attorneys’ requests for part-time work. Supporting predictions based on dependency theory, respondents reported that their fi...

Work engagement and its association with occupational sitting time: results from the Stormont study

BACKGROUND Evidence suggests that poor health outcomes and poor work-related health outcomes such as sickness presenteeism are associated with excessive sitting at work. Studies have yet to investigate the relationship between work engagement and occupational sitting. Work engagement is considered to be an important predictor of work-related well-being. We investigated the relationship between ...