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If You Can Use Them: Flexibility Policies, Organizational Commitment, and Perceived Productivity

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This study links workplace flexibility policies - formal, informal, and perceived 'usable' - to organizational commitment and self-reported productivity. Professional and technical employees of biotechnology firms were surveyed. Where employees could freely use policies, a positive association with outcomes is found. The paper contributes a new measure to capture employees' organizational experience.

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  • Eaton, Susan C., 2001. "If You Can Use Them: Flexibility Policies, Organizational Commitment, and Perceived Productivity," Working Paper Series rwp01-009, Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government.
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