... than those who are engaged with more stable and regular jobs. However, lack of training as well as poor health conditions at work are found to be associated with early retirement. Originality/value The analysis conceptually associates two key features of modern labour markets (precariousness...

... Customer relations Transactional analysis Recruitment agencies Labour market Third‐party relationships are becoming increasingly prevalent in the labour market. In a triadic employment relationship a firm (intermediary or agency) employs a worker in order to lease him or her out to a customer...

... typifies the classic managerially controlled internal labour market as it relates to manual employees (Doeringer and Piore, 1971). Although a substantial minority of the workforce are members of the appropriate union, the union has no collective bargaining rights of consequence. There are four grades...

... and their satellites form a job cluster. Accordingly, on the firm level, a wage contour is defined as: … a stable group of wage‐determining units … which are so linked together by similarity of product markets, resort to similar sources for a labor force and common labor market organization (custom...

... in personnel selection. In addition, existing academic reviews of recent research in personnel selection were scrutinized. As a result, the following four main trends are identified: labour market shortages, technological developments, applicant perceptions of selection procedures, and construct‐driven...

... continuity in the employment relationship between capital and labour. Film industry Employee relations Labour market Currently the “creative industries”, especially the British film industry, are receiving much popular attention (see for example Blair, 1997). This, in the case of the film...

...Mary Pang Chinese participation in the catering industry is conspicuous in Britain, but there also appears to be an emergence of young Chinese adults diversifying into other occupations and sectors in the British labour market. This paper seeks to gain an understanding of where young Chinese adults...

..., with the support of government, to target older workers for redundancy. In addition, older workers have been over‐represented in declining industries. Once out in the labour market older workers face considerable age discrimination. Recently, population ageing has encouraged all political parties to revise...

... Labour market Older employees This paper examines the development of the European Union (EU) policy towards older workers in the light of the diversity (that exists across the member states) of their policy and legal frameworks towards older workers and in terms of the impact of demographic...

...Tim Claydon; Francis Green Examines whether, in an increasingly fragmented labour market, British trade unions can have a beneficial effect on training, and thereby contribute towards a solution to Britain′s skills problem. Examines the background to unions′ policies on training, details...

...Terry Moreton Examines the role of “sheltered employment” within the macro‐economic labour market. Assesses the extent to which sheltered employment is an end in itself forming a “road block” for people with disabilities. Goes on to suggest ways in which the system of sheltered employment might...

...Steve Johnson Considers the implications for the training of people with disabilities of the shift towards a new system for the delivery of publicly funded training schemes, based upon Training and Enterprise Councils (TECs). People with disabilities face a number of barriers to labour market...

...Stefano Folletti; Giampiero Giacomello; Jonathan Cooper The restrictive legislation on recruitment in Italy is a well‐known example of state control of a labour market; the means Italian companies employ to get round the legislation is, if anything, even more interesting. Problems are recognised...

... and analysis of the nurse labour market in the light of future developments proposed for the NHS. © MCB UP Limited 1990 Manpower planning National Health Service Nurses Labour market Financial planning 16 PERSONNEL REVIEW 1 9 , 4 T he true costs of supplying nurses to the NHS is discussed...

... its extent and its alleged benefits, have been considerably overestimated. In particular, new technology homeworking by itself does not appear to open up opportunities for women to improve their position in the labour market; the demographic changes predicted for the 1990s may provide a better bet...

... hotel or across a number of hotels. The problems of developing such an operative core are discussed, as are the consequences of not developing it. © MCB UP Limited 1989 Core workers Peripheral workers Career development Hotel and catering Labour market Human resource management Catering...