A Strategic Model of Temporary Staffing

by Glasgow,Kay

• ISBN13: 9780815337317
• ISBN10: 0815337310
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-07-24
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This book examines the relationship between competitive strategies and the use of temporary employees. An organization's choice of strategy (i.e. how it will compete against others in its industry) is predicted to impact its decision to use temporary workers. The study shows that firms differ in their competitive strategies and their respective use of temporary employment, which in turn impacts organizational performance. This study attempts to model the effects of strategy on the nature of jobs within the organization and the subsequent appropriateness of using temporary workers.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	p. ix
List of Tables	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
The Nature of Contingent Employment	p. 5
Contingent employment and the nature of today's work before	p. 5
Benefits and costs of contingent employment	p. 7
Temporary Staffing and Competitive Strategy	p. 11
Porter's competitive strategy framework	p. 11
Strategy and human resource management	p. 12
Transaction cost theory	p. 16
Comparison of transaction cost and agency theories	p. 17
Transaction costs, strategy and the staffing decision	p. 18
Job differences and temporary employee usage	p. 19
Job attributes affecting transaction cost levels	p. 21
The temporary-appropriateness of jobs	p. 25
Strategic temporary staffing	p. 28
Hypothesis Development	p. 31
A strategic model of temporary staffing	p. 31
Production strategy and temporary employment	p. 32
Marketing strategy and temporary employment	p. 33
Organizational performance	p. 34
Methods	p. 37
Sample and survey	p. 37
Variables	p. 38
Results	p. 43
Discussion and Conclusions	p. 55
Discussion	p. 55
Limitations	p. 63
Conclusions	p. 67
Appendix A	p. 71
References	p. 79
Index	p. 85
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