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9. Do Gender, Position, and Organization Shape Human Resource Flexibility?

verfasst von : Umesh Kumar Bamel, Dr. Santosh Rangnekar, Prof. Renu Rastogi

Erschienen in: Organisational Flexibility and Competitiveness

Verlag: Springer India

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Abstract

Flexibility has been identified as a key practice to cope with uncertainties and enable organizations and their embers to adjust with surroundings. Since two decades it has magnetized scholars and change agents and remained the central theme of organizational change process. Since, empirically studies proved the positive association between flexibility firm and its performance. Recent trends in flexibility have raised new issues regarding how gender, position and organizations interacts with individual flexibility at workplace. However, only limited efforts were done to investigate the interaction of employee characteristics with their flexibility. Present study was conducted to respond this view. A sample of 189 managers comprising of all categories (male, female, junior, middle, senior, private and public) were collected by using a five items instrument. Next, factorial 2 × 3 × 2 ANOVA was employed and the results indicate that managerial flexibility remains static irrespective of managerial characteristics (Gender, Position/levels and type of organizations).

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Titel: Do Gender, Position, and Organization Shape Human Resource Flexibility?
verfasst von: Umesh Kumar Bamel
Dr. Santosh Rangnekar
Prof. Renu Rastogi
Verlag: Springer India
Buch: Organisational Flexibility and Competitiveness
Print ISBN: 978-81-322-1667-4

Electronic ISBN: 978-81-322-1668-1

Copyright-Jahr: 2014
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-1668-1_9