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LABOR FORCE EXTERNALIZATION IN GROWING FIRMS

LABOR FORCE EXTERNALIZATION IN GROWING FIRMS Organizational staffing strategies are turning increasingly to workers removed from the core workforce, a practice known as externalization. Our survey of 153 growing firms examined environmental and organizational predictors of three forms of externalization parttime workers, temporary workers, and workathome arrangements. The results indicated that firms externalize in response to labor market conditions, although the predictive role of labor market forces varied across externalization forms. Various employeecentered human resource management policies were associated with externalization practices, and there was evidence that internal labor market policies are negatively associated with externalization. Findings are discussed in terms of externalization strategies and implications for future research. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The International Journal of Organizational Analysis Emerald Publishing

LABOR FORCE EXTERNALIZATION IN GROWING FIRMS

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1055-3185
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Abstract

Organizational staffing strategies are turning increasingly to workers removed from the core workforce, a practice known as externalization. Our survey of 153 growing firms examined environmental and organizational predictors of three forms of externalization parttime workers, temporary workers, and workathome arrangements. The results indicated that firms externalize in response to labor market conditions, although the predictive role of labor market forces varied across externalization forms. Various employeecentered human resource management policies were associated with externalization practices, and there was evidence that internal labor market policies are negatively associated with externalization. Findings are discussed in terms of externalization strategies and implications for future research.

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The International Journal of Organizational Analysis – Emerald Publishing

Published: Apr 1, 1994

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