The recent work on business process flexibility focuses primarily on defining and classifying business process flexibility and developing strategies, architectures, and tactics for achieving it. However, to specify the required type and level of business process flexibility it is essential to understand how the need for flexibility arises in the first place, and how this need affects the requir...

A flexible manufacturing system (FMS) is a manufacturing system in which there is some amount of flexibility that allows the system to react in case of changes, whether predicted or unpredicted. This flexibility is generally considered to fall into two categories. The first category, machine flexibility which enables the work stations to perform different operations simultaneously on a part whe...

This study aimed to investigate whether different personality variables were associated with shift work tolerance, and whether these potential associations were moderated by various types of shift work. The sample comprised 1505 nurses who worked either two or three rotating shifts. Personality traits were measured in terms of morningness, flexibility, languidity and hardiness. Morningness refl...

Abstract Flexible work arrangements (FWA) may be beneficial for increasing perceived flexibility (i.e. control over when, where and how to work) reducing interference between private-life, but knowledge of gendered patterns these relationships is sparse. Drawing on gender theory, the aim this study was conduct gender-differentiated analyses associations FWA (non-regulated or flex-time) work–lif...

A survey of 887 employees in a German government agency assessed the antecedents and consequences of idiosyncratic arrangements individual workers negotiated with their supervisors. Work arrangements promoting the individualization of employment conditions, such as part-time work and telecommuting, were positively related to the negotiation of idiosyncratic deals ("i-deals"). Worker personal in...

Three-dimensional electron microscopy (3D-EM) is a powerful technology for imaging macromolecular complexes. Through a process known as singleparticle reconstruction, tens of thousands of separate images of a complex of interest are used to arrive at a single resolved structure. Although this method works sufficiently well for rigid macromolecular complexes, conformationally flexible complexes ...