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- Title
Temporary Employment and Strategic Staffing in the Manufacturing Sector.
- Authors
VIDAL, MATT; TIGGES, LEANN M.
- Abstract
While prior research has identified different ways of using temporary workers to achieve numerical flexibility, quantitative analysis of temporary employment has been limited to a few key empirical indicators of demand variability that may confound important differences. Our analysis provides evidence that many manufacturers use temporary workers to achieve what we call planned and systematic numerical flexibility rather than simply in a reactive manner to deal with unexpected problems. Although temporary work may provide many benefits for employers, a key function appears to be the provision of numerical flexibility not to buffer core workers but to externalize certain jobs.
- Subjects
TEMPORARY employment; MANUFACTURING industries personnel; ALTERNATIVE work arrangements; PERSONNEL management; TEMPORARY employees; INDUSTRIAL relations
- Publication
Industrial Relations, 2009, Vol 48, Issue 1, p55
- ISSN
0019-8676
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1468-232X.2008.00545.x