Three Dimensions of Labour Utilisation: Job Broadening, Employment Insecurity and Work Intensification
Year: 1999
Type: conference-paper
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: In many industrialised countries, there have been major changes in the pattern of labour utilisation in the 1980s and 1990s.The paper argues that, in Australia, labour utilisation has been changing along three key dimensions: job broadening, employment security and work intensification.These dimensions are affecting both standard 'core' workers and non-standard 'peripheral' workers.Reviewing case study evidence and survey data from a federal government study of workplace change, we analyse employee perceptions to these forms of labour utilisation.Employees are being affected by differing combinations of these dimensions and are experiencing higher stress levels and greater job insecurity.
Source: Griffith Research Online
Authors: Cameron Allan, Michael O’Donnell, David Peetz
Language: English
Subfield: Industrial relations
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W75962899