Job Sharing: New Possibilities of Work Organization

• Authors: Skowron-Mielnik B.

Title variants

PL

Job sharing – nowe możliwości organizowania pracy

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The aim of this paper is a presentation of forms of flexible work organization, commonly known as job sharing, in both its theoretical and empirical aspects, on the basis of research conducted on a sample of sixty-five businesses. Job sharing has been in use since the 1960s. It is not widely known in Poland to date, but is presently being promoted by the EQUAL Common Initiative, where quite a few projects are financed by the European Social Fund. However, not all aspects of job sharing are stressed by the current wave of interest. In fact, they are quite often limited to its social meaning, thus restricting its use and value. This article argues that job sharing is also a form of work organization for specialized work teams, autonomous groups, and team working. Using job sharing in this context brings more benefits to the enterprise. This, in its turn, may serve as a means of enlarging the use of job sharing, including in its social economic meaning.

Keywords

EN

JOB SHARING; JOB SPLITTING; SPLIT LEVEL SHARING

Discipline

• ECONOMICS: ECONOMICS

• Publisher: Institute of Labor and Social Studies, Warsaw
• Journal: Zarządzanie Zasobami Ludzkimi
• Year: 2008
• Issue: 5(64)
• Pages: 37-54
• Document type: ARTICLE

Dates

published

2008-10-15

Contributors

author

Skowron-Mielnik B.

• B. Skowron-Mielnik, Akademia Ekonomiczna w Poznaniu, Katedra Systemów i Technik Zarzadzania, al. Niepodleglosci 10, 60-967 Poznan, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

08PLAAAA05363