by Karl W. Deutsch Professor Youngjoo Cha, Indiana University Bloomington, USA. The pre-sented study examines whether organizational policies can help to challenge the way we defi-ne ?ideal workers". And whether and under what organizational conditions flexible work policies can help to redefine the ?ideal worker" norm. In American workplaces, there is a pre-vailing conception that ideal workers put work before other commitments, working long hours and making themselves available for work 24/7. This traditional way of defining ideal workers has shown to lead to negative con-sequences for employee's health and family life. Can this change? Can flexible work policies (e.g., time-off, flextime, telecommuting) be an answer?
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