Boundaryless and traditional contingent employees: worlds apart

By Janet H. Marler, M. Barringer, G. Milkovich. 2002

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Subfields: General Health Professions, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Sociology and Political Science

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3 Staffing Twenty‐first‐century Organizations (2008, background): “Contingent work arrangements may assume a variety of forms (Marler, Barringer, & Milkovich, 2003 ).”
Organizational commitment and the well-being of temporary agency workers: A longitudinal study (2009, background): “In other words, many workers have a rather traditional vocational orientation, which makes them comparable with those that have been denominated, in other research, as having a preference for stable organizational membership (Marler et al., 2002).”
Associations between perceived employability, employee well-being, and its contribution to organizational success: a matter of psychological contracts? (2011, background): “Most authors portray (perceived) employability as an employee asset, inducing control over one's work life and, in a broader sense, over one's career (Marler, Barringer and Milkovich 2002 ; Fugate et al.”
Job insecurity in temporary versus permanent workers: Associations with attitudes, well-being, and behaviour (2007, background): “Yet another test may involve temporary workers’ preferences regarding temporary employment, which is often referred to as “volition” (eg, Krausz, 2000 ; Krausz et al, 1995 ; Isaksson & Bellaagh, 2002 ; Marler, Barringer, & Milkovich, 2002 ).”
Literature Review of Theory and Research on the Psychological Impact of Temporary Employment: Towards a Conceptual Model (2008, unknown): “Others have argued that motives for accepting temporary employment may more accurately capture issues concerning choice: involuntary status does not imply that the decision to accept temporary employment is outside the employees’ control and vice versa for voluntary status (De Jong et al. 2005; Elli”
The employment relationships of foreign workers versus local employees: A field study of organizational justice, job satisfaction, performance, and OCB (2003, background): “Past research on workers under alternative staffing strategies who do not have ongoing employment relationships (for example, contingent, temporary, contract, on-call, and part-time workers) demonstrates that alternative staffing strategies can have significant social-psychological effects on employ”
Contingent labor as an enabler of entrepreneurial growth (2003, background): “and if the firm has specifically engaged boundaryless temporary workers (Marler et al., 2002) in order to minimize their attachment to the organization and enhance organizational flexibility to disengage them, then these workers may be difficult to convert to traditional employment relationships.”
How satisfied are they and why? A study of job satisfaction, job rewards, gender and temporary agency workers in Australia (2010, background): “Dissatisfied temporary workers may be less cooperative in groups, particularly if the costs of finding another assignment are low (Marler et al., 2002).”
Predicting job seeking for temporary employment using the theory of planned behaviour: The moderating role of individualism and collectivism (2009, background): “As major disadvantages of temporary employment several authors mentioned lack of security, lack of development possibilities, and lack of loyalty (Marler et al., 2002; Polivka & Nardone, 1989).”
Volition and reasons for accepting temporary employment: Associations with attitudes, well-being, and behavioural intentions (2008, background): “First, volition has traditionally been described along one dimension, while temporary workers' preferences may be conditional upon a number of different factors (De Jong, De Cuyper, De Witte, Silla, & Bernhard-Oettel, in press; Ellingson, Gruys, & Sackett, 1998 ; Marler, Barringer, & Milkovich, 20”
Commitment, trust and work behaviour: The case of contingent workers (2003, background): “Furthermore, contingent workers who would prefer temporary work may be more highly skilled (Marler et al., 2002).”