Exploratory Analysis of Flexible Workday Policies in a Job Shop

• Main Authors: YANG, Kum Khiong, Webster, S., Ruben, R.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2003
• Subjects: Computer simulation; Job satisfaction; Personnel; Production engineering; Scheduling; Human Resources Management; Operations and Supply Chain Management
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/2707; https://doi.org/10.1080/1352816031000074946
• Institution: Singapore Management University

The degree to which simple policies for varying the length of each workday can affect job shop performance was investigated. The performance of a job shop operating on a fixed 8-hour day schedule was compared with a job shop that had some flexibility to vary an employee's workday by compensatin...