Towards a Research Agenda on the Sustainable and Socially Responsible Management of Agency Workers Through a Flexicurity Model of HRM
Mike Zhang (),
Timothy Bartram (),
Nicola McNeil () and
Peter Dowling ()
Journal of Business Ethics, 2015, vol. 127, issue 3, 513-523
Abstract:
Agency work is one of the most rapidly growing forms of employment in leading economies over the past two decades, signifying a global shift towards non-standard flexible employment modes. The rapid growth of agency work has become one of the most notable global employment trends and is set to become a permanent feature of the modern workplace. The growth of agency employment raises a number of ethical challenges for governments and businesses. A key emerging challenge is to identify firm-level HRM strategies to effectively manage and protect agency employees. Based on an extensive review of the existing research on agency work, this article develops an organizational-level flexicurity model of HRM as a promising answer to effectively manage agency employees in responsible ways within the context of increasing employment flexibilization. This article also develops a research agenda, providing a platform to inform future research. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2015
Keywords: Agency work; Ethics; Flexibility; Flexicurity; Future of employment; HRM (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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