This study is an investigation of the effect which flextime has upon productivity. Included in it is an analysis of the propriety of using indirect measures of productivity to evaluate the effect which flextime has upon actual productivity. Two organizational units, programming and data entry, were selected for the analysis in part because good quality, quantifiable direct measures of productivity could be collected for these units; and in part because these units are an important segment of many organizations today. / The major thrust of the study is an analysis of the longitudinal effects of flextime upon productivity. A split-plot design is used with experimental and control conditions across pretest, posttest and long-posttest testing periods for the programming units and the data entry units separately. The initial or exploratory analysis for each consisted of a MANOVA using direct and indirect measures of productivity as dependent variables; an ANCOVA which used strongly correlated demographic variables as covariates; and finally a simple ANOVA. The findings across each set of analyses were similar. Significant differences were found for the programming units, but were not found for the data entry units. / Having identified significant differences for the programming units, the initial analysis was followed up with a priori multiple comparison test to determine the set or sets of means where significant differences were present. The Bonferonni technique for determining the critical value was used since there were three comparisons within this analysis. The results of the findings are that there is a significant pretest-posttest increase for the experimental programming unit. There is no significant overall pretest-long posttest increase. / The subsequent part of the study looked at the correlation between absenteeism/turnover and actual productivity using the Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient and the coefficient of determination. The findings indicate that for the data entry experimental unit there was a significant correlation between absenteeism and actual productivity. For the experimental programming unit, there was a significant correlation between turnover and productivity. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 42-08, Section: A, page: 3666. / Thesis (D.B.A.)--The Florida State University, 1981.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_74594 |
| Contributors | RALSTON, DAVID ALLEN., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 218 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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