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Record W2114298205 · doi:10.1080/10887150801966995

Implementing a reduced-workload arrangement to retain high talent: A case study.

2008· article· en· W2114298205 on OpenAlexafffund
Ellen Ernst Kossek, Mary Dean Lee

Bibliographic record

VenueThe Psychologist-Manager Journal · 2008
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicWork-Family Balance Challenges
Canadian institutionsMcGill University
FundersMcGill UniversityMichigan State UniversityUniversity of MichiganAlfred P. Sloan Foundation
KeywordsWorkloadFlexibility (engineering)Talent managementDual (grammatical number)Relevance (law)Work (physics)BusinessReduction (mathematics)Track (disk drive)Knowledge managementComputer scienceMarketingOperations managementManagementEngineeringEconomicsPolitical science

Abstract

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Reduced-load work arrangements involve a reduction in workload or hours with commensurate pay reduction. Employers use these arrangements to retain talent who value dual engagement in career and personal life. We discuss the reasons employers support reduced-load work, and its relevance to the psychologist-manager. We share a case study representing employee and manager views. Successful arrangements include these implementation features: (a) targeted to high-talent individuals with a track record; (b) redesigned, monitored, and fine-tuned over time; and (c) follow principles of the three Cs: communication, coordination, and challenge management. New managerial mind-sets are needed for success: designer at a distance with high standards, creator of pockets of change, big picture thinker on flexibility, and talent manager of “whole people.”

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.006
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: Qualitative
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.162
Threshold uncertainty score0.997

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0060.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0040.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.080
GPT teacher head0.377
Teacher spread0.297 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Citations44
Published2008
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