 Short-term hires and the leasing of personnel in Norwegian firms: promoting numerical flexibility and stabilityTorstein Nesheim Scandinavian Journal of Management, 2003, vol. 19, issue 3, 309-331 Abstract: Norway is an interesting "case" in the study of atypical work arrangements, because its national employment regime differs in essential aspects from the US and the UK, where much of the most influential research has been set. Compared to these two countries, Norway displays its own distinctive categories of employment, with important legally based demand for as well as legal constraints on the use of short-term hiring and the leasing of personnel. In order to understand why firms adapt these arrangements, it is necessary to consider a wider range of motives than those related to numerical flexibility; that is, the ability to match the number of people working on a set of tasks with a changing work load. In an empirical study of 395 firms, it was found that the need to cover for absentees and thus numerical stability was found to be the most important motivation behind both of the work arrangements in question. A regression analysis revealed that organizational size, seasonality (+) and unionization were statistically related to the use of short-term hires, while organizational size, variability and seasonality (-) were related to the leasing of personnel. Date: 2003 Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:scaman:v:19:y:2003:i:3:p:309-331 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from Access Statistics for this article Scandinavian Journal of Management is currently edited by Janne Tienari More articles in Scandinavian Journal of Management from Elsevier |
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