Full-Time Employment
Full-time work involves 30 or more hours per with the same employer. Such positions are relatively permanent. If you value security and stability you may choose full-time employment. But people, who work at full-time basis, often feel hurt and disappointed when have been laid off through corporate downsizing. They believe that organization is responsible to take care of them. Don't place your future in someone else's hands even if you're a full-time employee. Behave like you are in business for yourself and be accountable for your outcomes.
Part-Time Employment
Part-time work refers to less than 30 hours of work per week with the same employer. It's one of the fastest growing forms of work at this time. Part-time work involves lower skill requirements but also low hourly wages.
People choose part-time work to provide extra income for the home and have enough free time for other interests. These individuals hold similar beliefs to full-time workers valuing security and predictability.
Multi-Tracking
Multi-tracking means that a person holds 2 or more separate work roles at the same time. Individuals who multi-track are sometimes called "moonlighters". They often have full-time job and in addition carry a second part-time job.
The position may involve:
• Working for 2 or even more employers.
• Working for an employer and running a business.
• Running 2 or more separate businesses.
• Working for an employer and being involved in a community barter network.
These types of employees are confident in their skills and want to keep these skills up-to-date to maintain their "security".
Job Sharing
A formal arrangement in which two people agree to share one job or position is called a job share. It's usually a full-time position and each of the job share partners works half of the time. When one partner arrives, he/she carries on the duties and responsibilities of the other person. It involves the same responsibilities for both partners, but at different times. It is a similar type of arrangement to shift work.
This type of arrangement is often chosen to accommodate different family needs.
Work Sharing / Team Models
Involvement in this arrangement means sharing work functions, rather than positions. Usually teams are established to take on specific functions, such as management and other. Since the establishment the team takes responsibility for making and implementing specific kinds of decisions. Team members must remember that the organization outcomes are foremost and respect each other's contributions. They know and accept their own strengths and limitations and value team contribution.
Talent Pooling
Talent pool is a collection of individuals who form strategic alliances for the purpose of finding and performing decision. Nevertheless the pool members have common interests they have complementary skills. A talent pool is similar to the team model in some way. The difference is a team involves talented individuals inside organizations, and a talent pool may exist outside of any single organizational structure (e.g. a group of counselors). As these individuals have strengths in different specializations the group is able to address a wide range of issues that no one individual could address and each person can market the services of the whole group.
Individuals who are the part of talent pools value other people; believe that growth can take place through the strengths of others; can recognize their own strengths and limitations.
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