Flexible Work Designs, as a Strategic Tool for Twenty-First-Century Intricacies: A Descriptive Analysis amongst Healthcare Employees in the United Arab Emirates

Abstract

Many of the 21st Century's intricacies can be explained by their strategic employment relationships. The present study discusses the necessity of flexible work designs by utilizing and maintaining the workforce to their full potential. Keeping this in mind, this study was conducted in randomly selected health sectors, in the UAE. Along with the models related to this subject and a questionnaire of 300 respondents, by stratified proportional sampling, provided a deep understanding of the outlooks of employees in their work designs. A descriptive analysis, using SPSS 24.0, maintained the significance level of the latent variables, such as, organizational flexibility, and cognitive flexibility, to the independent variable, flexible patterns. The findings confirmed the alignment of models extracted from the theories to the variables discussed in the questionnaire. Moreover, all the hypotheses crafted for the study have accepted. Thus, the study proved that a flexible workforce requires management to be tactical, create various work designs on demand, and develop requisite skills to undertake this task. Furthermore, it communicates that productivity and career responsibility can increase while fatigue and staff turnover can lessen if the work designs are strategically crafted, within the selected companies.