Temporary work and health and well-being

Temporary work and health and well-being: a two-way street?

Wagenaar, A.F.

2013

Since the mid-1980s there has been a remarkable growth in the share of temporary workers across the European Union. To date, this employer-initiated trend to become more flexible and cost-effective has resulted in over 25 million European temporary workers. As temporary employment is often not desired by the employee, given the fact that most temporary workers would prefer a permanent appointment, concerns have been raised regarding its impact on workers’ health, well-being and work-related attitudes. In this thesis we focus on two of these concerns: job insecurity and a lower quality of work. Both risk factors stem from the idea that temporary employment is often used as a “peripheral” workforce to surround, and thereby protect organizations “core” workforce of permanent workers. As these latter workers can be expected to own job-specific skills, they are harder to replace, and may therefore be offered higher working standards than the more easily replaceable temporary workers. Consequently, temporary jobs may be less secure and of lower quality than permanent jobs.

BSS - Behavioural and Societal Sciences
Organisation
Healthy Living
Work and Employment
Jobs
Temporary
Employee
Health
Employment
WH - Work & Health

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Boxpress, Nijmegen

9789088917875

doctoral thesis