ISPA working time consulting

Aims of the working time consulting

Evidence-based planning and implementation of optimal working time flexibilisation in the company as a whole or in particular departments considering applicable labour law and the co-determination right of the works council.

Focuses of the working time consulting:

• method-based evaluation of already existing concepts and instruments of the internal working time flexibilisation depending on strengths and weaknesses as well as cost and benefit following the system check

• process consulting in order to improve existing and develop new, so far non-practised concepts and instruments of the working time flexibilisation for previous and new target group

• feasibility and profitability studies for intended reorganisations of the working time flexibilisation

• content consulting: recommendations for action in order to internally adapt single components or the overall system of the working time flexibilisation according to the demands and requests of the client company

Which resistances and obstacles have to be overcome while planning working time flexibilisation?

Missing or incomplete and uncertain planning criteria (work load, desires regarding the working time, effects of alternative working time regulations)

Limited search for alternative working time regulations (concentration on familiar and customary standards)

Labour law restrictions (laws on working hours, collective agreements, company agreements)

Method deficiencies in evaluating determined alternatives (e.g. due to lacking acceptance of formalised assessment procedures)

Conflict of interests between management and employees or, as the case may be, between different divisions of the company in reorganising the working times

Best Practice

Award from the German Federal President for a particularly innovative part-time concept which ISPA consult developed for a small enterprise (Bürkert-Werke, Ingelfingen)

Other reference projects:

• project "Innovation Arbeitsformen" of the Bildungsverbund Berufliche Qualifikation BBQ (implementation consulting for medium-sized companies)
• cost-optimising arrangement of shift schedules in the mail order business
• flexible working time regulations in the call center of a direct bank
  
• mobile time project of the Federal Ministry of Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth (implementation of qualified part-time for specialists and executive staff)
• comparative cost analyses of working time models in the aluminium manufacturing