Alternative Work Arrangements

Panel 7 Paradoxes in Alternative Work Arrangements

Why outsource and what makes it work? Alternative arrangements for work in the health sector

Why outsource and what makes it work? Alternative arrangements for work in the health sector Suzanne Young Deakin University This paper addresses the question: In the health sector why have managers outsourced some functions in preference to others? The research specifi cally uncovers a reason for outsourcing which has not been highlighted in the literature; that being a desire to improve depar...

Alternative currency arrangements for Palestine

Comparable economies to that of a new Palestinian state have mostly opted for a pegged exchange rate regime, but generally not a currency union or a currency board. The issue of a new Palestinian currency would bring only relatively small steady state seigniorage, but the transitional seigniorage gains would be more significant. Gravity models suggest the new state would do up to a third of its...

Flexible work arrangements, work engagement, turnover intentions and psychological health

Flexible work arrangements (FWAs) are often written into company policies to demonstrate organisational sensitivity to potentially difficult interfaces between employees’ work and non-work domains. The current research investigated employees’ use of FWAs and relationship to work engagement, with turnover intentions and psychological strain also used as criterion variables for comparison purpose...

Alternative Employment Arrangements: A Gender Perspective

In this study we drew on national-level data to investigate the gendered nature of two alternative employment arrangements (independent contractors and temporary agency help), preferences for such arrangements, and the extent to which such arrangements accommodate work/family career quandaries of contemporary workers. Multivariate analyses revealed the perpetuation of gender schema and gendered...