Module 3: Attracting and Retaining Diverse Talent
Session Title: New Ways of Working to Retain High Talent
Ellen Ernst Kossek
Michigan State University School of Labor & Industrial Relations
Abstract: Leaders and organizations need to adapt to changing labor force and global work environments that require flexible new ways of working. In recent years more employers have established flexible work arrangements and informal practices to support talented individuals who want to work in different ways to accommodate shifting priorities in their personal and professional lives over the life span. Although employers are spending millions of dollars to adopt work-family-life policies, businesses are still struggling to find out how to better integrate flexible practices into workplaces and effectively manage people working in new ways. The presentation draws on recent research studies that have been completed or are in progress including studies funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Learning Objectives
- To be able to describe the concept of customized reduced work load and how it can be used as a new flexibility work form to retain talent
- To be able to give examples of longitudinal research on the challenges, myths and realities of reduced work load
- To be able to give examples of how to implement reduced load work load and how to reduce workloads in ways that also foster company productivity.
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