SOCI 321 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Adverse Selection, Absenteeism, Egalitarianism

• School: McGill University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI 321
• Professor: Elaine Weiner

Document Summary

There are 5/6 costs of conflict work life: absenteeism, job/stress and burnout, turnover, health issues, job dissatisfaction, employee disloyalty. Increases likelihood people won"t leave a given position. Put something forward monetarily to help with care issue. Puts onus on those employers to take on these costs: places males/females . The business case for workplace flexibility (williams, 2010: improved consumer and workplace safety. Having workers who have more flexibility in their jobs, you would have better safety in your products trying to make demands and making bad decisions) Want to create situations where workers can adjust (not overextended where they are: stronger employee loyalty and commitment. More commitment if needs are respected: enhances productivity. Ways that this can be achieved, flexibility with better productivity, can come by allowing employers to stay open longer hours but with the same number of employees.