Flexible Working Practices and Approaches

Christian Korunka, PhD., holds a chair for Work and Organizational Psychology at the Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna, Austria. He has conducted many empirical studies in the areas of new forms of work, flexible work, the role of ICT at work places, and quality of working life. His studies were published in more than 90 journal articles, about 100 book chapters and he was the editor of about 10 books.

• 1. Current forms of flexible work.- 2. The development of flexible work over the last decades and its impact on the quality of working life.- 4. Flexible work in the context of work intensification and social acceleration processes.- 5. ICT as drivers and enhancers of flexible work.- 6. Important theories explaining the impact of flexible work on working life.- 7. The paradoxes about the impact of flexible work on working life.- 8. Controlling and managing the boundaries between flexible work and private life.- 9. Social norms and dynamics associated with flexible work.- 10. Flexible work and the changing quality of recovery from work.- 11. Planning and decision-making as new job demands related to flexible work.- 12. Flexible work and the opposed psychological needs for autonomy and structure.- 13. Flexible work and the importance of job security.- 14. The special case of activity-based office concepts and its impact on working life.- 15. New forms of self-employment, crowd work and its impact on the quality of life.