Table of contents
Warning: flexibility can damage your organizational health!
Wolfgang MayrhoferNotes that achieving flexibility for organizations is one of the key issues of management efforts. However, making organizations more flexible may reduce the organizations’…
The “non‐permanent” reality!
Olga TregaskisLooks at how the rise in the use of non‐permanent employees has stimulated much debate concerning the long‐term impact on the success of organizations and skill development at the…
Part‐time work in Europe
Noreen Clifford, Michael Morley, Patrick GunnigleSeeks to contribute to the flexibility debate by addressing the following research questions: What are the European trends pertaining to the use of part‐time workers? How has the…
Flexibility in Norwegian and UK firms: competitive pressure and institutional embeddedness
Paul N. Gooderham, Odd NordhaugDiscusses critically the concept of numerical flexibility arguing that strategies for numerical flexibility may in part be viewed as “emergent” strategies. Argues further that…
Flexible working patterns: towards reconciliation of family and work
Nancy Papalexandris, Robin KramarObserves that historically, family and work were not separated in pre‐industrial societies in which life was a united whole, but that family and work are gradually becoming…
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- Prof Dennis Nickson