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Shared service centers and professional employability
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posted on 2015-02-25, 14:13 authored by Andrew T. Rothwell, Ian P. Herbert, William B. SealThis paper presents case study evidence of evolutionary changes in business support functions resulting in a fundamental hollowing out of the professional space over time and distance, creating the ‘hourglass’ profession. In an IT-enabled, boundaryless world, many professional activities can now be undertaken, in the manner of the Martini slogan, ‘any time, any place, anywhere’.
This paper aims:
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To investigate the shared service center as an emerging organizational form with the potential to drive fundamental change in the nature and location of professional work.
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To explore the impact of these changes for individual professional workers, and to highlight the need for a greater focus on individual employability as the driver of an overall career trajectory.
History
School
- Business and Economics
Department
- Business
Published in
Journal of Vocational BehaviorVolume
79Issue
1Pages
241 - 252 (11)Citation
ROTHWELL, A.T., HERBERT, I. and SEAL, W., 2011. Shared service centers and professional employability. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 79 (1), pp. 241 - 252.Publisher
© ElsevierVersion
- VoR (Version of Record)
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2011Notes
Closed accessISSN
0001-8791Publisher version
Language
- en