Gurus, Hired Guns, and Warm Bodies – Itinerant Experts in a Knowledge Economy
Autor Stephen R. Barley, Gideon Kundaen Limba Engleză Paperback – 21 aug 2006
Gurus, Hired Guns, and Warm Bodies tells the story of how the market for temporary professionals operates from the perspective of the contractors who do the work, the managers who employ them, the permanent employees who work beside them, and the staffing agencies who broker deals. Based on a year of field work in three staffing agencies, life histories with over seventy contractors and studies of workers in some of America's best known firms, the book dismantles the myths of temporary employment and offers instead a grounded description of how contracting works. Engagingly written, it goes beyond rhetoric to examine why contractors leave permanent employment, why managers hire them, and how staffing agencies operate. Barley and Kunda paint a richly layered portrait of contract professionals. Readers learn how contractors find jobs, how agents negotiate, and what it is like to shoulder the risks of managing one's own "employability." The authors illustrate how the reality of flexibility often differs substantially from its promise. Viewing the knowledge economy in terms of organizations and markets is not enough, Barley and Kunda conclude. Rather, occupational communities and networks of skilled experts are what grease the skids of the high-tech, "matrix economy" where firms become way stations in the flow of expertise.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780691127958
ISBN-10: 0691127956
Pagini: 352
Ilustrații: 5 line illus. 7 tables.
Dimensiuni: 155 x 233 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Editura: Princeton University Press
Locul publicării:Princeton, United States
ISBN-10: 0691127956
Pagini: 352
Ilustrații: 5 line illus. 7 tables.
Dimensiuni: 155 x 233 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Editura: Princeton University Press
Locul publicării:Princeton, United States
Notă biografică
Stephen R. Barley is Charles M. Pigott Professor of Management Science and Engineering and Co-Director of the Center for Work, Technology and Organization at Stanford's School of Engineering. Gideon Kunda is Associate Professor in the Department of Labor Studies at Tel Aviv University.
Descriere
Tells the story of how the market for temporary professionals operates from the perspective of the contractors who do the work, the managers who employ them, the permanent employees who work beside them, and the staffing agencies who broker deals. This book illustrates how the reality of flexibility often differs substantially from its promise.