'Part-time and Part-committed'?: The Challenges of Part-time Work in Policing  

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Charlesworth, Sara ; Whittenbury, Kerri

Jenis: Article from Journal - e-Journal
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Industrial Relations vol. 49 no. 1 (Feb. 2007), page 31–47.
Topik: gender; part-time work; policing; work culture; work organization
Fulltext: 31.pdf (180.39KB)

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In police services, both in Australia and internationally, attention has been focused on increasing the representation of women. The availability of parttime work has been identified as a key mechanism to retain women who have been recruited. To date, however, the take-up of part-time work remains low. It is also concentrated in administrative work and non-operational policing work. In this article, we draw on research in Victoria Police around the experiences of, and attitudes towards, part-time work. The research suggests that there are a number of policy constraints to the take up of part-time work, particularly by police officers. There are also significant cultural barriers to both increasing and integrating part-time work, which influence attitudes to part-time work at all levels of the organization. However, these barriers are intertwined with and reinforced by institutional structures and processes that position part-time work as ‘other’ and a gendered understanding of police work. In increasing access to parttime work, the challenge for police services is to address both institutional and cultural barriers to the integration of part-time and full-time work.

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