Une perspective particulière de l'aménagement du temps de travail: "How compatible are modern working patterns and practices with the aim of harnessing the full creativity of people?"

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Besides this strong movement, the studied decade has also seen the development of a solid trend towards job enrichment, empowerment and job satisfaction as a whole. The goal is to put people in a decisional position, a creative situation where they can invent, implement and engage on new solutions. This development addresses the same aim of using the human resources fully and meaningfully.
But are these two developments congruent? How compatible are these modern working patterns and practices with the aim of harnes sing the full
creativity of people? In a first part, we will look closer at these modern working patterns to agree on their definition and we will in our second part overview the major issues generated by these patterns and the influence they have on employees...

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[...] Employing Jobs har er s , Par time and tempor ar y s taff, I PD S T REDWI CK J. and E LL I S S . F lex ible Wor king Pr actices , I PD - AND B I GL EY G. Motivation and wor k behavior , EMPLOYEE RESOURCIN G T YS ON S . S tr ategic Pr os pects for HRM, I PD WEI GHT MAN J. Managing People, People and Or ganis ation WI NF I ELD P., B I S HOP R. [...]

[...] One of them was that flex ible wor king and the lack of the s ocial s ide of the wor k ing envir onment can lead to a - EMPLOYEE RESOURCIN G feeling of is olation, r emotenes s and lonelines s . I t is indeed a maj or function of wor k that is eas ily for gotten that this s ocial function. Mank ind is actually a s ocial animal and thr ough s hifted hour s , r emote wor k ing and par time wor he is lacking of this s ocial link which is undoubtedly a maj or ex tr ins ic motivation factor . [...]

[...] T he development of this wor k/life balance thr ough moder n wor k ing polices is a factor of high motivation, j ob s atis faction and then, as a r es ult, cr eativity. - EMPLOYEE RESOURCIN G Con cl u s i on We had the oppor tunity, thr oughout this s tudy, to r ealis fir s t that the wor king patter us ed was to be cons ider ed as an ex tr ins ic motivation factor and s hould ther efor e be s een as a pr er equis ite to employee motivation r ather than as a s tanding- alone factor . [...]

[...] B ut how enabling people to - EMPLOYEE RESOURCIN G be cr eative? T his is of cour s e one of the maj or is s ue the HR liter atur e has to deal with. I t is us ually r efer s to as motivation and j ob s atis faction. Motivated employees ar e mor e likely to be cr eative than other s even if no tool can pr edict an hundr ed per cent pr obability. [...]

[...] H ar n es s i n g t h e f u l l cr eat i vi t y Now that we defined what is us ually under s tood by “moder n wor king patter ns and pr actices we ar e going to concentr ate on the implication thes e models have on the per for mance of wor k er s . T he aim of manager s , bes ides the quantitative management of his s taff, achieved thr ough the adequate choice of employment for ms , is max imis e the outputs of to the or ganis ation. [...]