The Boston College Time & Place Management Study consists of two studies supported by a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation— “Assessing the Workplace Impact of Time & Place Management Policies: What’s Age Got to Do with it?” The Time & Place Management Study is a large project designed to assess the business impact of workplace interventions that give employees greater options and control over where, when, how, and how much work gets done. While research suggests that time and place management (TPM) human resource policies can be beneficial to business, few studies have used experimental design to examine productivity and business-relevant benefits of such policies over time. Thus, some employers have remained skeptical of their value. In the context of the aging of the workforce, the availability of TPM policies is particularly important because they can affect the ability of older workers to extend their labor force participation. The Sloan Center on Aging & Work will collect data from several sources over a 24-month period in phases to assess the business impact of a TPM intervention using a randomized pre-and post-test design.
key research questions
- Which core elements of the TPM policy/program have the largest effect on changes in work unit productivity and other business-related outcomes over time?
- Do utilization rates have to reach a certain level before it is possible to detect work unit-level outcomes?
- To what extent does the age composition of the workforce at the work unit modify relationships between TPM and business outcomes?
- To what extent do supervisors see a need for change in TPM, and how do those perceptions change over the course of the study?
contact
For More Information about this study:
617-552-9195 | agework@bc.edu
the time & place management study team
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Marcie Pitt-Catsouphes, PhD Director Sloan Center on Aging & Work, Boston College Associate Professor Graduate School of Social Work & Caroll School of Management, Boston College |
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Jacquelyn B. James, PhD Co-Director of Research, Primary Data Studies Sloan Center on Aging & Work, Boston College Research Professor Lynch School of Education, Boston College |
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research team |
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Kevin E. Cahill, PhD Research Economist Sloan Center on Aging & Work, Boston College |
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| Scott Crawford Research Consultant Survey Sciences Group, LLC |
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Kimberly Lee DeAngelis, PhD Research Associate Sloan Center on Aging & Work, Boston College |
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Danielle Hartmann Director of Corporate Partnerships Boston College Center for Work and Family |
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| Brian Hempton Executive Vice President Survey Sciences Group, LLC |
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Suzanne Lawler Project Coordinator Sloan Center on Aging & Work, Boston College |
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David L. Snow, PhD Professor Emeritus & Senior Research Scientist in Psychiatry and Epidemiology & Public Health Director, Division of Prevention and Community Research Yale University School of Medicine |
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Stephen Sweet, PhD Associate Professor of Sociology Ithaca College |
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