This article examines the outcomes of implementing functional flexibility for employers and employees. The use of functional flexibility is normally associated with improving efficiency. However the findings reported here, drawn from four case studies, show evidence of positive outcomes for both...

Increasingly, evidence suggests that the impact of HRM in organisations is greatest where it involves a set of coherent policies and practices. The implication of this is that, to be effective, individual HR initiatives need to be implemented as part of an integrated package of practices. This...