IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/sae/ilrrev/v42y1989i4p640-648.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

The Twelve-Hour Shift in the Petroleum and Chemical Industries Revisited: An Assessment by Human Resource Management Executives

Author

Listed:
  • Herbert R. Northrup

Abstract

This study, a follow-up of one published in 1979, reports the results of a questionnaire concerning the twelve-hour shift that was sent to human resource management executives at 23 chemical, petroleum, pharmaceutical, and cosmetic companies in 1987. Respondents from all 11 chemical companies and 4 petroleum companies that returned the form indicated they were using the shift. Most of them reported that the shift was popular with employees, largely because of the longer periods of time off and greater freedom on weekends and evenings it provides. The twelve-hour shift is also widely used in the mini-steel and offshore oil drilling industries, and it is used to a limited extent in paper manufacturing, data processing, metal can manufacturing, and electric utilities.

Suggested Citation

  • Herbert R. Northrup, 1989. "The Twelve-Hour Shift in the Petroleum and Chemical Industries Revisited: An Assessment by Human Resource Management Executives," ILR Review, Cornell University, ILR School, vol. 42(4), pages 640-648, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:ilrrev:v:42:y:1989:i:4:p:640-648
    DOI: 10.1177/001979398904200412
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/001979398904200412
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1177/001979398904200412?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:sae:ilrrev:v:42:y:1989:i:4:p:640-648. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: SAGE Publications (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.ilr.cornell.edu .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.