Temporary employment: Can organizations and employees both win?

Academy of Management Executive

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 93-104

  Von Hippel, Courtney ^a   Mangum, Stephen L ^a   Greenberger, David B ^a   Heneman, Robert L ^a,b,c   Skoglind, Jeffrey D ^d  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Graduate Programs in Labor and Human Resources

^d Olsten Staffing Services Central Ohio   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002013205     PISSN: 10795545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5465/ame.1997.9707100662     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. Boroughs, D.L. (1994). The new migrant workers: Part time and temporary job holders toil for low pay and limited benefits. Business gives in to temptation. U.S. News & World Report, July 4.
2. Feldman, D.C., Doerpinghaus, H.I., & Turnley, W.H. (1994). Managing temporary workers: A permanent HRM challenge. Organizational Dynamics, Autumn, 49-63.
3. Golden, L. and Applebaum, E. (1992). What was driving the 1982-88 boom in temporary employment? Preference of workers or decisions and power of employers. American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 51, 4, 473-493.
4. Mangum, G., Mayall, D., and Nelson, K. (1985). The temporary help industry: A response to the dual internal labor market. Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 38, 4, 599-611.
5. Caudron, S. (1994). Contingent work force spurs HR planning. Personnel Journal.
6. Pfeffer, J. and Baron, J.N. (1988). Taking the workers back out: Recent trends in the structuring of employment. Research in Organizational Behavior, 10, 257-303.
7. When temps become permanent. October, 1995. INC, 17, 14, 112.
8. Davis-Blake, A. and Uzzi, B. (1993). Determinants of Employment Externalization: A study of temporary workers and independent contractors. Administrative Science Quarterly, 38, 195-223.
9. Suro, R. At the bottom of the hiring heap. Washington Post.
10. Kochan, T.A., Smith, M., Wells, J.C., and Rebitzer, J.B. (1994). Human resource strategies and contingent workers: The case of safety and health in the petrochemical industry. Human Resource Management, 33, 1, 55-77.
11. Lawrence, P.R., & Lorsch, J.W. (1967). Organization and Environment Boston: Graduate School of Business Administration, Harvard University.
12. Tansky, J.W. & Veglahn, P.A. (1995). Legal issues in co-employment. Labor Law Journal, 293-300. The situation becomes more complicated when a joint employer relationship is said to exist.
13. For a review of the joint employer doctrine under the NLRA (National Labor Relations Act) the reader is referred to Jenero, K.A., & Spognardi, M.A., (1995). Temporary employment relationships: Review of the joint employer doctrine under the NLRA. Employee Relations, 21, 2, 127-137.
14. Davis-Blake, A., George, E., & Broshak, J. (1994). When temporary solutions create permanent problems: How use of contingent workers affects full-time, permanent employees. Paper presented at the 1994 Annual Meetings of The Academy of Management, Dallas. TX.
15. Five hundred thirty-seven employees (54 percent) completed the survey. Ten percent had completed some high school, 37 percent had high school diplomas, 42 percent had completed some college or had a college degree, 3 percent had attempted or completed graduate school. (Percentages that do not add up to 100 percent represent missing data.) A comparison of the sample with selected demographic data (e.g., age, gender) suggests that the sample approximated the population of temporary employees.