Hence the late nights that he keeps just to keep his head above the pile of accountabilities.
Yes, he has thought about it and it comes out the same way all the time: Miss Ruby is his best option. As he shakes his head and ushers himself out of the car he mutters under his breath " Lord, Jamaican man life nuh easy yu nuh." He enters his home to find Rachel, Simone and Simon all folded up together on the couch fast asleep, but waiting on Daddy, whose late, again.
Joseph Shepherd may not be your typical Jamaican father, however he does represent the typical single parent Jamaican family that has statistically proven to be matriarchal. He has all the ambitions, dreams and aspirations of the typical career minded employee but with extraordinary responsibilities. He is beginning to lose hope. Could flexitime be his and so many other Jamaicans answer?.
Presently in existence in Jamaica there are two overriding schools of thoughts as it relates to flexitime. They are .
1. Flexitime is another new way for employers to benefit at the grave expense of employees, family and church lives.
2. Flexitime is every employee's dream come true. As it allows one to work the most suitable time for that one and therefore have sufficient time for other responsibilities and interests, domestic and otherwise.
Historically speaking flexitime is not new. It is just the natural progression of alternative work schedules (AWS). Which has its roots in Europe and the United States Federal Government since 1972. .
In the U.S. the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) in Albuquerque, New Mexico implemented the first flexible schedule in the Federal sector, in late 1972. Following the BIA experiment, flexible schedules spread to the Social Security Administration Headquarters (SSA) in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1974, and then to several organizational elements in various Federal agencies.
Both the BIA and SSA began their experiments with flexible schedules because of employee tardiness, lost productivity, low morale, and, in the case of SSA, an extensive amount of leave without pay (LWOP).
Applying the Learning Organisational objectives are not achieved by people simply turning up to work. Managers must challenge, inspire and maintain employee behaviour to achieve goals. This can be achieved through a balance of the use of rewards, punishment and authority. This process is known as motivation. There are two major types of motivational theory: content and process theories. ...
