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Flexible Work as a Political Allocation of Career Opportunity

Year: 2024

Type: article

Abstract: Flexible work is commonly framed as an employee benefit, a work-design choice, or a productivity arrangement. These framings understate how organizations distribute access to flexibility and how its use may reshape access to information, visibility, managerial support, and career-relevant opportunities. This original conceptual theory article develops a proposed Politics-of-Flexibility Theory to explain how formal arrangements may become an organizational allocation regime. The theory links four

Source: Journal of Applied Organizational Systems and Behavior

DOI: 10.51847/jjcndqqvdl

Authors: Nora Schneider, Tobias Frank, Andreas Müller, Christoph Meier

Institution: University of Hohenheim

Language: English

Topic: Work-Family Balance Challenges

Subfield: Sociology and Political Science

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Decent work and economic growth

Open Access status: bronze

OpenAlex ID: W7203780402