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Flexible Work Situations and Employees’ Thoughts of Leaving the Organization

In: Flexibility and Stability in Working Life

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  • Tomas Berglund

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One important factor in labour market flexibility is the readiness of employees to change jobs and employers. The mobility of employees to growing sectors of the economy is commonly regarded as a sign of a well-functioning labour market. However, flexibility is a complex concept, as demonstrated by Jonsson in Chapter 3 of this volume. Before we can make use of this notion in a stringent and scientific way, we must always ask, ‘For whom is flexibility desirable?’ Furthermore, flexibility has a conceptual companion in stability through the concept of desirable non-variation. Jonsson stresses the point that variation and change may not always be the ideal for an agent;it could rather be interpreted as instability. From a labour market perspective, therefore, employees’ potential for mobility can be regarded as a prerequisite for labour market flexibility; but from the perspective of the employer, employees who want to leave the organization may create instability and potential replacement costs.

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  • Tomas Berglund, 2007. "Flexible Work Situations and Employees’ Thoughts of Leaving the Organization," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Bengt Furåker & Kristina Håkansson & Jan Ch. Karlsson (ed.), Flexibility and Stability in Working Life, chapter 9, pages 148-172, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-23538-0_9
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230235380_9
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