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Inter-organisational human resource management and network orientation of worker representatives: a practice-based perspective

Year: 2024

Type: article

Abstract: We develop a practice-based framework of inter-organisational human resource management that puts multi-employer work arrangements in inter-firm networks at its centre. By reinterpreting existing knowledge on multi-employer work arrangements and how they are managed, we delineate four processes in the assemblage of inter-organisational HR management. To illustrate the usefulness of our framework, we explore the question of whether and how an inter-organisational HR management develops in four exemplary cases of multi-employer work arrangements. These cases reveal that the quality and degree of inter-organisational HR management varies considerably, also depending on whether worker representatives show network awareness and orient their activities towards inter-organisational relations.

Source: Transfer European Review of Labour and Research

DOI: 10.1177/10242589241249639

Authors: Markus Helfen, Jörg Sydow, Carsten Wirth

Institutions: Hertie School, Freie Universität Berlin, Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences

Language: English

Topic: Labor Movements and Unions

Subfield: Public Administration

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Decent work and economic growth

Open Access status: hybrid

Estimated APC paid: $3,450