Significance of Workplace Flexibility in Employee Motivation within a Retail Sector

Literature review

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
Literature review........................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5

Topic: “ To investigate the significance of workplace flexibility in the context of employee
motivation within a retail sector: A study on Morrison's”.
INTRODUCTION
In the era of competitive market, there are different ways through which the company is
managing the employees so that they support the business in order to meet the specified target.
In the same way, current study is also based upon significance of working flexibility with
regards to employee motivation within a retail sector. Under which, researcher uses secondary
resources in which relevant books, articles and journals are selected that will help to accomplish
the define goal.
Literature review
Concept of Workplace flexibility
in the view of Kossek and Thompson (2016) .flexibility is consider the most important
trait for employees within a companies such that it refers to the willingness and ability to
respond the changing circumstances and expectation. So it is analyzed that flexibility at working
place enables both individual and business needs to met through making changes at time. Also,
it is consider the better option for both employee and employer in order to get better results. On
the other side, Bal and Jansen (2016) argued that flexibility is all about affording employees the
opportunities to make their own choice as to when and how they are easily engage in the work
related task. Through flexibility employees of a company easily manage the work and also
maintain high productivity as well as performance level.
Hence, it is stated that to have a workplace flexibility when they acknowledge
employee's need in order to deal with a unforeseen circumstances with regards to scheduling.
The best example is allowing employees to give input by allotting shifts. In the same way,
Morrison's also provide flexibility working hours and job sharing and flexible vacation time
which in turn help the company to keep employees motivated. In addition to this, Nordbäck,
Myers and McPhee (2017) .also stated that flexibility in the workplace also allows employers
and employees to make arrangement with regards to working condition which is suited on them.
Among all, company provide compressed workweek which in turn assist the firm to improve the
productivity and also help to improve the working environment as well.
Importance and impact of having workplace Flexibility for employee motivation
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