... are organised, and describes three dilemmas for the firms involved. Torstein Nesheim can be contacted at: Torstein.Nesheim@snf.no © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Customer relations Transactional analysis Recruitment agencies Labour market Third‐party relationships are becoming...

... Subcontracting Recruitment agencies United Kingdom The aim of this paper is to examine the use of contingent labour in the construction and civil engineering sector in the UK. The construction and civil engineering sector employ 1.98 million people in the UK, around 1 in 14 of the UK workforce...

..., in Figure 1 , a graphical representation of the typology, and Figure 2 , which assigns the case firms to the typology. Temporary workers Manpower planning Recruitment agencies United Kingdom Interest in human resource decisions involving agency workers in the UK arises from the threefold...

... work has grown rapidly but little is known about short‐term experiences or longer term implications. The paper fills a gap in knowledge about the current nature of agency work, and provides an empirical assessment of competing claims about this form of work Recruitment agencies Human resource...

...). Temporary workers Contract workers Human resource management Job satisfaction Recruitment agencies Australia While agency work has existed in Australia for at least 50 years, the contemporary profile of the use of agency workers is distinguished by continuing strong growth and a relatively broad...