Temporary workers include wage and salary employees with a job contract that has a pre-determined termination date. EuWorkers definitions differ. However, all temporary workers have a common feature: their status as temporaries entails a negative effect on their work motivation and on their capacity to react collectively to injustice (negative effect on the avoidant reaction and positive effect on self-centred reactions). They also have a lower level of organisational identification.
While some people choose to opt for short contracts for specific reasons, most of them find it difficult to obtain a permanent contract. Moreover, their labour market duality has social consequences: they are less likely to have access to housing and credit.
Temporary Work and Career Development: Opportunities and Challenges
The analysis focuses on the case of france, where the emergence of a distinct temporary employment agency sector and associated regulatory environment took place in the late 1960s and 1970s under variegated capitalism. It argues that large agencies were able to construct their business model by leveraging the politico-institutional conditions that had emerged, in particular the weakened role of unions and the gradual liberalisation of the French labour law framework.
This explains how the sector emerged and how it was able to expand. It explains too how the regulation of this sector developed within a wider context of global developments, and shows how it was influenced by the specific economic conditions that were present in france at the time. The article also identifies some of the factors that influence attitudinal outcomes and the behavioural consequences of this phenomenon, including its impact on the behaviour of organisations and on the development of new forms of flexible work.
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