Personnel Review: Volume 35 Issue 2

Temporary work and human resources management: issues, challenges and responses

John Burgess, Julia Connell

The purpose of this paper is to introduce the special issue volume that examines a range of concerns, challenges and responses relating to temporary workers and human resource…

The nature and experience of agency working in Britain: What are the challenges for human resource management?

Chris Forde, Gary Slater

To examine the experience of agency employment for workers and employers' use of agency workers in Britain to evaluate competing claims made about this form of work.

Temporary agency work and HRM in Australia: “Cooperation, specialisation and satisfaction for the good of all”?

Richard Hall

The purpose of this paper is to examine the management of agency workers in Australia and, in particular, to identify the challenges presented to HRM by agency work.

Human resource solutions?: Dimensions of employers' use of temporary agency labour in the UK

Celia Stanworth, Janet Druker

The article seeks to explain the rapid increase in the use of agency “temps” by employers during the 1990s. It tests the thesis of profound change in employers' labour use…

The changing world of the temporary worker: the potential HR impact of legislation

David Biggs, Brendan Burchell, Mike Millmore

Temporary workers have many human resource and labour market implications. These consequences are further influenced with the introduction of new legislation relating to temporary…

Managing temporary workers in higher education: still at the margin?

Colin Bryson, Richard Blackwell

To evaluate whether “numerical flexibility” – specifically a form of temporary and precarious employment – hourly‐paid part‐time teaching in the UK higher education sector – adds…