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Despite important differences in labour flexibility patterns in different countries and despite clear indications of … flexibility strategies and reveals a promising approach to learning how the development of a topic, such as labour flexibility … between the institutional context and the HRM of companies. This paper seeks to address this issue with regard to labour …
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organisational flexibility, attempts to recast the nature of work and finally the intensification of work. It concludes by arguing …
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Employers’ demands for cheap and flexible labour which can multi‐task, make decisions and act responsibly are being met … by an increasing supply of students to the part‐time labour market who are having to work due to financial necessity …
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The article examines decision‐taking in European construction companies. It confirms the increasing importance of MNEs in the industry. The extent to which corporate decision‐taking on human resource matters in construction MNEs is distinctive and is examined. Construction MNEs show an...
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cultural model of comparative labour market flexibility is developed. Using Hofstede’s indices for measuring national culture … relationship between Hofstede’s individualism versus collectivism variable and labour mobility is also established, which suggests …This paper investigates the relationship between national culture and the main dimensions of employment flexibility. A …
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reflected on the function of teamwork in these contexts, which is strongly dominated by a notion of flexibility under complexity …
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responsiveness and flexibility. Skill shortages have become a limiting factor. People today have an unprecedented choice of for whom …
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Presents data from recent research examining work organization in seven countries. Addresses the question of whether the contemporary workplace is characterized by management practices which might be termed post‐Fordist, involving an extension of employee discretion and autonomy, or whether...
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Aims to subject to empirical scrutiny the claim that peripheral work is characterized by a range of undesirable characteristics. The analysis of data from the Australian Workplace Industrial Relations Survey (AWIRS) clearly shows that there is a link between peripheral forms of employment and...
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product of coincidence, because the idea that employers follow a particular strategy with regard to the employment of labour …, simplifies the complexities and vagaries of the labour market. Although this phenomenon is bringing more young males into the … part‐time labour force, young females remain disadvantaged in regard to the substantive terms of the effort/reward exchange …
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