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Raghu Raman, S.; Budhwar, Pawan; Balasubramanian, G. - In: Employee Relations 29 (2007) 6, pp. 696-710

Purpose – The business process outsourcing (BPO) industry in India is evolving rapidly, and one of the key … characteristics of this industry is the emergence of high‐end services offered by knowledge processing outsourcing (KPO) organizations … KPO, HRM and India and has key messages for policy makers. Originality/value – The literature on outsourcing has in …

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Contract labour mobilisation in Chile's copper mining and forestry sectors

Durán‐Palma, Fernando; López, Diego - In: Employee Relations 31 (2009) 3, pp. 245-263

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of recent developments in employment relations in Chile, focusing on recent episodes of contract labour mobilisation in the forestry and copper mining sectors. Design/methodology/approach – This paper is based on a consolidation...

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Outsourcing of employers' responsibilities in the false name of flexibility

Sheikh, Abdullah Z. - In: Employee Relations 32 (2010) 5, pp. 495-508

Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to report on an in‐depth study of “pay‐rolling” agencies. Pay‐rolling agencies are a particular form of employment intermediaries through which employers attempt to bypass statutory obligations concerning workers' benefit entitlements and trade...

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Southern Insurgency – The Coming of the Global Working Class

Klikauer, Thomas - In: Employee Relations 39 (2017) 4, pp. 582-590

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Outsourcing and financial crisis: evidence from Icelandic service SMEs

Edvardsson, Ingi Rúnar; Teitsdóttir, Unnur Dilja - In: Employee Relations 37 (2015) 1, pp. 30-47

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyse the application of outsourcing within Icelandic service companies in … 2009 (381 answers) and in the summer of 2013 (212 answers). Findings – In general outsourcing did not increase, but most … SMEs had extended their outsourcing in almost every area of operation, such as human resource management (HRM), IT and …

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Cable and Wireless rings the changes

In: Human Resource Management International Digest 12 (2004) 5, pp. 29-32

Telecommunications giant Cable and Wireless adopted a three‐prong approach to slimming down its in‐house HR, which Ian Muir, vice‐president of group human resources, described as “too big, too expensive and with a cost base that was fixed rather than variable”. First, the company began...

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Outsourcing HR: the contrasting experiences of Amex and DuPont

In: Human Resource Management International Digest 12 (2004) 6, pp. 8-10

their search for HR solutions to this challenge, many are making outsourcing an integral and permanent part of their human …‐resource strategies. Of 125 companies surveyed for HR Outsourcing Trends , a research report by The Conference Board and sponsored by …. Rarely has any company stopped outsourcing a function once having started. The research reveals that fewer than 1 percent of …

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Step by step to successful HR outsourcing

In: Human Resource Management International Digest 12 (2004) 7, pp. 29-33

with a drive to reduce operating costs. Outsourcing “non‐core” activity presents HR with a significant opportunity to focus …

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Why HR outsourcing continues to expand

Davidson, Glenn - In: Human Resource Management International Digest 13 (2005) 3, pp. 3-5

Purpose – To highlight that human‐resource outsourcing (HRO) arrangements have proved to be strategic partnerships that …, because of human resource outsourcing (HRO), can now more effectively perform financial analyses because of better HR …/value – The article contains plenty to interest top managers who are considering outsourcing their HR functions. …

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From Kodak to Intel: how global outsourcing means local problems

In: Human Resource Management International Digest 13 (2005) 3, pp. 6-8

abroad. Who are they? Stakeholders. And, according to Thomas A. Hemphill's article “Global outsourcing: effective functional …

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