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ABSTRACT
In the recent years organizations have introduced a number of family responsive policies. The interest in the outcome of the Flexible working arrangements dates into early 1970s when the researchers attempted to access the impact of flexible working arrangements on employees' productivity and performance. It is argued that the flexible working arrangements can affect the either directly or indirectly to the improvement of the individual as well as organization and society well being. It intensified the researchers to investigate on the subject and the government to take steps to implement the Flexible Working Arrangements by way of bringing legislations to implement the scheme. This is one of the biggest issues in the country like India.
KEYWORDS: Family Responsive Policies, Flexible Working Arrangements, Impact, Employees' Productivity, Employees' Performance, Legislations
Introduction
Initially the flexibility in the work place was introduced for women who have the care responsibility by giving her the maternity leave and some relaxations at the working place. The step taken for the women as a welfare measure to retain her valuable services lead to a creation of new working culture where employee have full anatomy to come to the work place keeping the balance between work life and family life. The small step in the direction of well being of the employees changed the working culture of the society. The information technology makes it happen. In the Indian context the concept of FWAs is a long way to go.
Flexible working arrangements include:
Changing hours of work (eg. working less hours or changing start or finish times)
Changing patterns of work (eg. working split shifts' or job sharing)
Changing the place of work (eg. working from home).
Need of Flexible Work Arrangements
In the morning hours everybody is in a hurry to reach his work place, there is huge rush on the road, trains, jammed roads make it difficult for the workers to reach their workplace in time, There is no control over the situation either one has to start too early to reach the work place or bound to be late which result in wastage of human energy/ hours and lot of petrol in the jams which could only yield stress and inefficiency and under utilization of the resources which...