MANAGING EMPLOYEE RESOURCES THE EXTENT TO WHICH LABOUR FLEXIBILITY CAN GENERATE EMPLOYEE COMMITMENT

Abstract

Institutions want to foster a content workforce to gain a competitive advantage but also attract and retain workers. Labour flexibility can help prepare multi-skilled, flexible labour adapting to fluctuating work demands. Additionally, employee commitment engenders an institutional outcome of HRM positively affecting performance and decreasing staff turnover by strengthening retention strategies. Hence, the workers choose to remain in an organisation because they have experienced a positive environment, decreasing labour turnover and increasing the right motivation to improve entity performance. Hence, companies have begun to offer various flexible work circumstances, generating high employee commitment. Flexible employment can foster commitment depending on the work performed and the commitment produced. For example, flexitime and annual hour contracts can foster affective commitment, causing staff to choose to remain at their job, helping the firm maintain competitiveness and thus succeed.

Keywords

• employee compensation
• trade unions
• pay negotiation
• collective bargaining