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ATTRIBUTES
  • Recruitment, Retention and Promotion
  • Workplace Flexibility

SOURCE
  • Workplace Gender Equality Agency (Australia)

TYPE OF RESOURCE
  • TToolkit

TARGET AREA
  • Strategy

TARGET UNIT
  • All Management, All Units, CEO, Diversity & Inclusion, Human Resources

LINK TO RESOURCE

Building a Workplace Flexibility Strategy – A Guide to Building an Organization-Wide Approach to Implementing and Managing Workplace Flexibility

Workplace Gender Equality Agency (Australia)
This guide provides a holistic frameworkto support a strategic approach to implementing organization-wide workplace flexibility programs. Specifically, the aims are to:

  • Ensure alignment between an organization’s workplace flexibility strategy, gender equality strategy, and broader business strategy.
  • Enable organizations to design a comprehensive workplace flexibility strategy.
  • Enable organizations to develop and implement an organization-wide approach for improving flexibility capability.

Also, this resource provides steps to building a workplace flexibility strategy:

  1. Envision a clear vision of what the organization looks like with improved flexibility.
  2. Ensure leadership commitment, support, and involvement, especially while running workshops.
  3. Develop specific goals and actions for each capability area (from the Readiness Assessment).
  4. Create an implementation plan based on the goals and actions with corresponding outcomes.
  5. Evaluate through an established learning cycle that includes pilot, testing, learning, adjustment, and retesting to find the best-suited strategy for the organization.

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