Information systems employment structures in the USA and Singapore: a cross-cultural comparison
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Introduction According to the classic view of labour markets, workers move freely from job to job and firm to firm (Bakke, 1954). From the worker’s perspective, this movement is governed by pressures to maximize the fit between worker skills and job requirements, with the objective of maximizing earnings. Historically, however, hierarchical (internal) control of labour supplanted the open labour market as a way of securing and controlling workers (Doeringer and Piore, 1971). More recently, there have been challenges to the historical perspective of internal labour markets as the primary structure of employment. Pfeffer and Baron (1988), for example, suggest that organizations increasingly are externalizing a buffer of workers against the core or permanent workforce. Externalization refers to the degree of attachment, or more appropriately, detachment of a worker to the organization. According to Pfeffer and Baron (1988) there are three dimensions of externalization:
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- IT & People
دوره 8 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1995