Duluth Police Department's Work Schedule Effects Study

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Duluth Police Department's Work Schedule Effects Study

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1990-03

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Bureau of Business and Economic Research

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This study focused on the Duluth Police Department's work schedule change and the apparent impact that this change had upon the recipients of the change. Work and work schedule related attitude data were collected at two different points in time. The first data collection effort was made while the employees were working a rotating, 8-hour day work week schedule. The second data collection effort was made while the employees were working a rotating, 12-hour day, 48-hour 8-day work week schedule. Comparisons were made between several work and life-related issues in an effort to ascertain work schedule change effects. Survey results appear to indicate that the change in work schedule did not produce significant increases in work coordination problems, nor significant changes (i.e., decreases nor increases) in departmental performance. Role conflict and overload, as well as symptoms of stress declined between the two data collection periods. Finally, there were several significant changes in employee attitudes that accompanied the change in work schedules, indicating a more favorable employee reaction to the 12-hour day, 48-hour 8-day schedule than the former 8-hour day work week shift schedule.

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Working Paper No. 90-4

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Pierce, Jon L. (1990). Duluth Police Department's Work Schedule Effects Study. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/264727.

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