During our live Q&A, from 1-2pm on Wednesday 25 November, our panel will offer expert advice on how to implement and manage flexible working while maintaining a healthy turnover.
Zheltoukhova said it's vital that roles and responsibilities are clear when managing flexible workers and that infrequent face-to-face communication makes it even more important to keep documents and plans up-to-date and accessible to all members of staff.
Accordingly, the problem of managing flexible workflows has been receiving increasing attention during the last decade.
To address the issue of decision support for designing and managing flexible projects and systems in the face of uncertainties, this paper integrates real options valuation, decision analysis techniques, Monte Carlo simulations and evolutionary algorithms in an evolutionary real options framework.
The second largest fire authority in the UK, Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service, has implemented a hand geometry-enabled system designed to manage flexible rosters for its 1625 operational staff.
Second, by virtue of its probabilistic nature, uncertain observations can be incorporated, missing data can be managed, and flexible queries to probe and explain predictions can be entertained [ 20, 21].
This type of approach is employed in fields where uncertainty is actively managed through flexible designs that adjust to changing conditions, such as engineering systems (e.g., air traffic control or electric power distribution) (Neufville 2003).
This has had deleterious effects – we have not trained the next generation of managers (or senior management) in how to manage a flexible, diverse workforce where "facetime" is not the goal.
They also reported feeling more comfortable about team members working flexibly and felt more capable of effectively managing the flexible nature of their team.
According to research from charity Working Families, 90% of employers already offered this, but now all businesses face the possible challenges of managing a flexible team.
