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Temporary employment and strategic staffing in the manufacturing sector

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posted on 2017-11-27, 09:55 authored by Matt VidalMatt Vidal, Leann M. Tigges
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. © 2009 Regents of the University of California.

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  • Loughborough University London

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Industrial Relations

Volume

48

Issue

1

Pages

55 - 72

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VIDAL, M. and TIGGES, L.M., 2009. Temporary employment and strategic staffing in the manufacturing sector. Industrial Relations, 48(1), pp. 55-72.

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© Regents of the University of California. Published by Blackwells.

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  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

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2009

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This is the pre-peer reviewed version of the following article: VIDAL, M. and TIGGES, L.M., 2009. Temporary employment and strategic staffing in the manufacturing sector. Industrial Relations, 48(1), pp. 55-72, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-232X.2008.00545.x. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving.

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0019-8676

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1468-232X

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  • en

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