Flexible Employment Contracts
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- Created on: 06-06-17 16:32
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- Flexible Employment Contracts
- Allow businesses to be more flexible themselves
- Means business is more effective at managing change
- If business has lots of employees on zero-hour contracts it can cope with increases / decreases in demand
- Flexible workforce can be achieved through employing a mixture of core & peripheral workers
- Core workers provide a stable environment for change to take place
- Peripheral workers help with any additional work during change
- Flexible business able to outsource some work to manage change
- If a business is updating machinery in its manufacturing department, might outsource some manufacturing while staff are trained
- Can make it easier for businesses to hold onto valuable employees & open up more job opportunities for skilled applicants
- Businesses then have a wider range of skilled employees for implementing change
- Might not even need to retrain people
- Do have downsides: ????
- Allowing people to work flexi-time could result in poor communication and teamwork between staff working at different times
- Could make it a lot more difficult to manage change effectively and businesses might need to put a strategy in place to deal with it
- Allow businesses to be more flexible themselves
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