Conclusion: The Flexibility Paradox

Type Journal
Author(s) Valverde,M. A. E. , Kabst,R. , Brewster,C. , Mayne,L.
Publication year 1997
URL (web address) Not available
Notes ID: VALVERDE1997; The concluding article of a special issue devoted to new developments in labour flexibility. Other papers in the same issue are not reviewed here having greater academic than practitioner orientation. The authors highlight how flexibility is being interpreted differently in different national cultures and suggest the same in organisations where some see it as part of strategic HRM and others as a cost cutting excercise and a means of reducing obligations to employees. The cost-benefits of either approach are reported as not having been studied.
Publication Employee Relations
Volume 19
Issue 6
Start page 596
End page 608
Relevance to practice Low
Ease of application Not Assessable
Stage of application Design Occupancy
Evidence base Moderate
Readability Moderate

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