Four Days,Forty Hours: A Case Study

Wheeler Kenneth E. Gurman Richard Tarnowieski Dale , The Four-Day Week (New York: American Management Association, 1972).

Samuelson Paul in Poor Riva (ed.), 4 days, 40 hours (Cambridge: Bursk and Poor Publishing, 1970).

Martin Neil , “Can the Four-Day Week Work? Dun's Presidents Panel” Dun's, July 1971, pp. 39–40, 45.

Bulkeley William , “For Some Companies the Four-Day Week Is a Four-Day Headache,” Wall Street Journal (April 30, 1973), pp. 1 and 36.

Glickman Albert Brown Zenia , “Experiences With New Patterns of Working Time,” in Changing Schedules of Work: Patterns and Implications (Washington: American Institutes for Research, 1973).

Steele James Poor Riva , “Work and Leisure: The Reactions of People at 4-Day Firms,” in Poor (ed.), op. cit.

Gannon Martin J. Reece B. Keith , “Personality Characteristics, Job Satisfaction, and the Four-Day Week” in Somers Gerald (ed.), Proceedings of the 24th Annual Meeting of the Industrial Relations Research Association (New Orleans: December 1971), pp. 116–120.

Nord W. Costigan R. , “Worker Adjustment to the Four-Day Week: A Longitudinal Study,” Journal of Applied Psychology, Vol. 58, No. 1 (August 1973), pp. 60–66.

Brown David , “Hours and Output,” in Dankert Clyde Mann Floyd Northrup Herbert (eds.), Hours of Work (New York: Harper and Row, 1965).

Steele Poor , op. cit.

Hayghe Howard V. Michelotti Kopp , “Multiple Jobholding in 1970 and 1971,” Monthly Labor Review, Vol. 94, No. 10 (October 1971), pp. 38–45.

Wheeler Kenneth , “Impact of the Rearranged Workweek on Motivation and Productivity,” paper presented at the Conference on Productivity and the 4-Day Workweek (Annapolis, Maryland: Society for Humanistic Management, November 1972).

Wilensky Harold as quoted in Logan Nancy O'Reilly Charles Roberts Karlene , “Job Satisfaction Among Part-Time and Full-Time Employees,” Journal of Vocational Behavior, Vol. 3, No. 1 (January 1973), pp. 33–41.

These figures are presented in Hedges Janice ' article, “New Patterns of Working Time,” Monthly Labor Review, Vol. 96, No. 2 (February 1973), pp. 3–8.

See Bolton J. Harvey , Flexible Working Hours (Wembley, England: Anbar Publications, Ltd., 1971).

Manpower Report of the President, p. 13 (Washington: Government Printing Office, March 1973).

Cosgrove David , “The Temporary Help Service Boom,” Personnel, XLVII (March-April 1970), pp. 44–48.

Winter Elmer , “Your Workforce—1976 Style,” Society for the Advancement of Management Journal, Vol. 37 (1972), pp. 17–24.

Gannon Martin J. Northern Joseph , “A Comparison of Short-Term and Long-Term Part-Time Employees,” Personnel Psychology, Vol. 24, No. 4 (Winter 1971), pp. 687–696; and Logan Nancy O'Reilly Charles III Roberts Karlene , op. cit.

This classification has been proposed to the present author by Mack Elmer , President of Temps Mature Beckhofer Ernest , President of International Temporaries.

For a review of the literature on job enrichment, see Miner John , The Management Process (New York: Macmillan, 1973).