Table 4

HRM practice menu for cancer survivors

HRM practicesHRM practice menu
Planning
  • Reduced working hours

  • Flexible working hours

  • Teleworking

  • Shift selection

  • Monitor people returning after treatment to ensure they adapt to their position

Job design
  • Adapt the workplace to the survivor’s situation (proximity to bathrooms or lift), footrest or ergonomic chair

  • Redesign tasks for teleworking

  • Condense working hours in certain periods to allow smooth recovery

Career development
  • Meet cancer survivors to find out about their physical and mental health and gradually adapt tasks accordingly

  • Adapt to accommodate requirements as requested

  • Psychological support

  • Establish an action plan that improves and develops their skills

Job performance evaluation
  • Adapt evaluation measurement scale

  • Acknowledge missed professional career development opportunities due to the illness and side effects

Compensation
  • Reduce working hours without reducing wages (as in the case of working mothers)

  • Offer life insurance with cancer coverage

  • Include bonuses to cover expenses for physiotherapy, gym or psychologists

Training
  • Promote online training

  • Provide educational training for management and staff to raise awareness in the workplace of what cancer entails and its side effects (diversity management training)

Source(s): Authors’ own work

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