Towards a Research Agenda on the Sustainable and Socially Responsible Management of Agency Workers Through a Flexicurity Model of HRM

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• 作者：Mike Mingqiong Zhang (1)
  Timothy Bartram (2)
  Nicola McNeil (2)
  Peter J. Dowling (2)
  
  1. Department of Management ; Faculty of Business and Economics ; Monash University ; Melbourne ; Australia
  2. Department of Management ; La Trobe Business School ; La Trobe University ; Melbourne ; Australia
  
• 关键词：Agency work ; Ethics ; Flexibility ; Flexicurity ; Future of employment ; HRM
• 刊名：Journal of Business Ethics
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：March 2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：127
• 期：3
• 页码：513-523
• 全文大小：218 KB
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• 刊物类别：Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
• 刊物主题：Philosophy
  Ethics
  Economic Growth
  Management
  Quality of Life Research
  
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1573-0697

文摘

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.