Organizational paradigms of reduced-load work: Accommodation, elaboration,and transformation

This study examines variation in organizational responses to part-time work arrangements among professionals and managers. Analyses of over 350 interv iews generated three paradigms of differences in ways organizations impleme nted and interpreted reduced-load work: accommodation, elaboration, and tra nsformation. The paradigms can be viewed as representing firms' proclivity to engage in organizational learning by using individual cases of reduced-l oad work as opportunities for learning new ways of working and new possibil ities for core business priorities.