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Key Concepts in Human Resources Management is an essential guide to the theories and issues that define the field - from the critical debates to the more practical considerations that every student should be aware of.52 short entries will serve to orientate the student round the need-to-know essentials. Entries will include Employment Tribunals, Benefits, Corporate Social Responsibility, Discipline and Grievance, Control, Employee relations, Incentive schemes, Motivation, Organizational culture, Strategic HRM, Victimisation.A range of relevant HR applications will be given for each term.A selection of recommended readings are suggested for each entry.
Flexibility
Flexibility
There are five different types of labour flexibility including: numerical (vary the numbers employed); functional (vary the jobs done by employees); temporal (change the time of day/week/month/year that people work); financial (vary wage levels to match business activity); and locational (move locations). Flexibility also refers to a framework based on the integration of a core workforce with various categories of peripheral (and temporary) employee.
Flexibility emerged as an academic issue in the 1980s with Atkinson's (1984 and 1987) model of flexibility involving core and peripheral workers. The model envisages that a core group of workers will deliver normal operational activity by providing functional flexibility in coping with the usual demand variations. Such workers would be drawn from the primary labour market and would enjoy a ...
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