What Are the Key Features of Flextime Plans, Compressed Workweeks

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Essay

What are the key features of flextime plans, compressed workweeks, and job sharing plans? Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of these approaches to scheduling employees.

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Definitions:

Contingencies

Events or conditions that may occur but are dependent on other occurrences or conditions.

Backward Conditioning

A form of learning where a conditioned stimulus is presented after the unconditioned stimulus, usually less effective or confused with no learning.

Higher Order Conditioning

A form of learning in which a stimulus is first made meaningful or significant through classical conditioning and then used itself as a basis for learning about some new stimulus.

Primary Reinforcers

Innate reinforcing stimuli that satisfy basic biological needs or desires, such as food, water, and sleep, without learning.