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Chapter 1

INTRODUCTION

Background of Study

Employees are considered valuable asset for any organization. That organization is considered to attain a competitive advantage over other organizations in its sphere, the workforce of which is more engaged and enthusiastically involved in their tasks and duties. In last few decades, numerous changes in demographics of work force were observed to be dramatic. For instance, more women workers and young age people were becoming the part of trusts, hospitals and care homes particularly in UK (Gilinsky et al., 2011). With rapid changes in employment work schedules, the idea of flexible work arrangements has arisen as a popular personnel management practice (Joiner &   , 2006). This is because it is helpful, to a level, to reduce work-life imbalance of employees specially the nursing staff comprising of diverse demographics and different social backgrounds and setup.

The main idea of employee engagement was particularly selected to study because of the fact that higher employee engagement comes up with numerous benefits for hospitals as well as for nursing staff at these hospitals (Brat &Metz, 2008). Previous studies have provided confirmation for potential employee outcome of having undesirable relationship with job and that the engaged and involved employees feel more positive emotions. This engagement of employees’ results in willingness to perform more tasks and roles as well as high performance (Albrecht, 2012). The study in hand aims to observe relationship between workplace flexible arrangements and level of engagement of employees by taking Nursing staff at Imperial Hospital Trust (NHS) as case in hand.

Significance and Scope of Study

In the field of hospital management and particularly in context of nursing area, there are very few studies which are conducted with respect to topic in hand. The concept of employee engagement is relatively new and due to literary gap found in this area, this study will be beneficial to not only understand the significance of flexible arrangements for employees’ engagement but also emphasize the same as a vital source of work-life balance that may result in greater employee engagement.

Layout of Study

Layout of the study in hand is managed in an applicable structure so as to make it more meaningful as well as understandable for all stakeholders. The structure of study is compiled as per the guidelines and format approved by course instructor. The detailed layout is discussed as follows: