job sharing

Examples of job sharing in the following topics:

• Cross-Training and Job Sharing

  • Cross training involves workers being trained in tangent job functions, while job sharing involves two people working together on the same job.
  • Mary and Susan job share.
  • Employees who job share frequently attribute their decision to quality of life issues.
  • Studies have shown that net productivity increases when two people share the same 40-hour job.
  • However, there is an inherent challenge in making job sharing work for the rest of the company's stakeholders.

• Connecting with Other Educators

  • Social media is an effective way for teachers and educators to connect with each other to share resources, ideas, and look for jobs.
  • Social media is an effective way for teachers and educators to connect with each other, share resources and ideas, and look for jobs.
  • By their very nature, social networking sites are relationship-centered and promote shared experiences.
  • The end result is a virtual support community that connects educators sharing ideas and resources through online networking platforms.
  • Other sites, such as the Teacher Job Network, help educators forge professional connections that facilitate job searches and interviews across the country.

• Market Share

  • Many people were unsure if they would lose their jobs.
  • Increasing market share is one of the most important objectives of business.
  • Firms with market shares below a certain level may not be viable.
  • Competitors often try to gain market share by reducing their prices.
  • In 2009, Hyundai released a new PR campaign where people who bought new Hyundai cars could return them if they lost their jobs within a year of buying the car.

• The Decline of Union Power

  • The changing conditions of the 1980s and 1990s undermined the position of organized labor, which now represented a shrinking share of the work force.
  • Unions have sought, with limited success, a variety of measures to protect jobs and incomes: free retraining, shorter workweeks to share the available work among employees, and guaranteed annual incomes.
  • Union arguments that they give workers a voice in almost all aspects of their jobs, including work-site safety and work grievances, are often ignored.
  • Economists said only people who were between jobs or chronically unemployed were out of work.
  • For all the uncertainties economic changes had produced, the abundance of jobs restored confidence that America was still a land of opportunity.

• Portfolios for Job Searches

  • Employers consider interviews to be their most important tool in selecting workers, and I'll share some thoughts in the next section about maximizing their effectiveness.
  • Yet job interviews clearly yield mixed results.
  • Second, portfolios can enliven and strengthen job selection procedures.
  • Several years ago, administrators in a Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) program in New York City asked employers what they expected of job portfolios.
  • In job-seeking and job-filling, I'd say that they're preparation, preparation, and preparation.

• The Psychology of Employee Satisfaction

  • Job satisfaction reflects employees' overall assessment of their job through emotions, behaviors, and attitudes about their work experience.
  • Satisfaction with one's job has theoretical and practical utility linked to important job outcomes, such as attitudinal variables, absenteeism, employee turnover, and job performance.
  • Empowering practices often occur through a competent manager who empowers employees by practices such as sharing information, creating autonomy, and creating self-managed teams.
  • Job satisfaction has a strong positive correlation with life satisfaction, and as such, improving job satisfaction should be considered a priority.
  • Some of the methods below can improve employee job satisfaction.

• Employee Recruitment

  • Job analysis involves determining the different aspects of a job through, for example, job description and job specification.
  • The former describes the tasks that are required for the job, while the latter describes the requirements that a person needs to do that job.
  • Methods of screening include evaluating resumes and job applications, interviewing, and job-related or behavioral testing.
  • Internet job boards and job search engines are commonly used to communicate job postings.
  • Social networking, whereby websites such as LinkedIn enable employers and prospective employees to interact and share information, is perhaps the most recent trend in recruitment.

• Motivating and Compensating Salespeople

  • Meaningful jobs must exemplify the company's goals and culture .
  • Job design is the base element for producing effective work organizations, so without meaningful job design, an organization will never operate to its potential.
  • In other words, the pay differentials between jobs need to be appropriate.
  • The amount of base pay assigned to jobs needs to reflect the relative contribution of each job to the company's business objectives.
  • Stock options and profit-sharing plans are representative of long-term reward systems.

• Small Businesses and U.S. Jobs

  • While business has seen great consolidation in recent years, the share of employment in small firms has been relatively stable over the past few decades.
  • This tracks with the slight decline in the small-business share of employment during the late 1990s and the leveling off in the 2000s.
  • The small-business share of employment is relatively stable, as shown in the graph above: the bold red line representing all small businesses stays at around 50 to 55% of the total share of employment.

• Jobs Argument

  • It is useful to consider the concept of a trade balance, or net exports, in the context of the jobs argument.
  • This sentiment towards protectionism is a direct result of the jobs argument in view of an imbalanced trade ratio, where more exports (production and jobs at home) are required to sustain the ongoing consumption of imports.
  • The obvious perspective, from a policy making context, is that these are jobs lost to overseas competitors.
  • Import Quotas: This is the act of limiting the number of a certain good that can be purchasing from a given country, ensuring that domestic producers maintain a portion of the market share.
  • This can in turn create jobs.