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Joyce, Jonathan Bartholomew (2024) The implementation of flexible working in the Offices of the Irish Data Protection Commission and the resulting policy effects on staffing and organisational outturns 2019 to 2022. Masters thesis, Dublin, National College of Ireland.
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This paper asks the question is flexible working, brought about by the COVID 19 pandemic, a success in the offices of the Irish Data Protection Commission. Has its implementation had an impact on the published objectives and outturn of the organisation? This research uses the secondary, publish, data contained in the DPC’s annual reports and Revised Estimates for 2020 to 2022, these dates are pre and post COVID and remote working and provide an insight into staff numbers and published outturn. To assess the impact of the remote working policy on individual staff members a staff survey, based on the Remote Working In Ireland Survey, 2023 (McCarthy, McGrath, Frost, O’Sullivan, Whelan, and Mulrooney, 2023), was conducted and its results analysed giving an insight into the continued success of the DPC. This research will assist the DPC in it future planning in relation to staff recruitment and retention. It gives important insight to what staff are thinking and feeling. It reinforces the positives and raises some areas of concern which will need further exploration and research.
This research has shown that for most employees, remote working is a success, it highly desired and one that they are willing to forego other benefits to obtain and retain. Analysis of the secondary data shows that the policy has not adversely effected the DPC, in fact its numbers have continued to grow. It is clear that remote working has benefited and enabled this growth.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
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| Supervisors: | Name Email Doherty, Rachel UNSPECIFIED |
| Subjects: | J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe) > Ireland > Government Departments H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management > Human Resource Management H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > Issues of Labour and Work |
| Divisions: | School of Business > Master of Arts in Human Resource Management |
| Depositing User: | Ciara O'Brien |
| Date Deposited: | 16 Jun 2025 11:32 |
| Last Modified: | 16 Jun 2025 11:32 |
| URI: | https://norma.ncirl.ie/id/eprint/7860 |
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