In the 1960s and 1970s, changes from rigid 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. work scheduling to a more flexible form of work scheduling began to occur. Flexible work scheduling was also known as "flextime." / This investigation attempted to identify the factors related to the use of flextime in a computer operations office of a large governmental agency. The subjects were 92 of the 117 employees of the Florida Department of Labor and Employment Security Data Center. Each responded to the Flextime Inventory, the research apparatus used in this study. It contained demographic items, questions concerning preferences, opinions, and uses of flextime, as well as two previously designed instruments. These were the Life Quality Inventory and the Budner Tolerance-Intolerance of Ambiguity Scale. / Frequency counts, percentages, means, Pearson Product Moment Correlations, and other descriptive statistics were analyzed to provide answers to six research questions. It was found from these that the vast majority of employees were satisfied with and preferred to remain on their flextime program. They practiced a very flexible form of flextime and felt it had a positive impact on their environment, work quality, and their personal attitudes. Clerical, professional, and supervisory employees used flextime to about the same extent. It was also found that supervisees' perceptions of supervisors' attitudes about employee flexibility were as important to the use of flextime as were the supervisors' actual attitudes. / Those who had responsibilities for dependents such as ill parents and children, used flextime very frequently for many different activities. Also, independent travelers were found to use flextime much more than car poolers and users of public transportation. / It was concluded from this investigation that the subjects considered flextime an extremely advantageous work system, with benefits for both employees and employers. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 41-11, Section: A, page: 4817. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1980.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_74337 |
| Contributors | AIDMAN, CAROLYN BETH., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 192 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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