Elastyczna organizacja pracy w ocenie pracodawców
Flexible Organization of Work as Rated by Employers

Summary/Abstract: The paper presents selected research results concerning employers’ perception of labor market flexibility. In the theoretical part, employment relationships, conceptualizations of labor market flexibility with particular emphasis on flexible organization of work, and public discourse on employment flexibility as well as negative connotations of the term were outlined. Subsequently, theoretical and methodological assumptions were discussed. The empirical part of the paper covers selected results which are directly related to research questions. First, the popularity of flexible organization of work among the interviewed entities and attempts to discover factors explaining such prevalence are discussed. Next, forms of flexibility adapted as well as confrontation of flexible forms of employment with flexible organization of work adapted in interviewed firms are considered. Subsequently, the benefits from implementation of flexible organization of work are presented perceived by employers who have and have not introduced this forms of flexibility supplemented by opinions on balance of benefits. The report on the results is summed up by evaluation of obstacles in the implementation of flexible organization of work predicted by the interviewed entities.

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