ABSTRACT

We investigated negotiated Labour Market Flexibility (LMF) in small hazardous firms in the context of increased immigrant labourers and the non-availability of the local labour force. Extant literature discussed negotiation between the employer and employees, only if the firm satisfies the following conditions: firm-specificity, employee categorisation into core-periphery, and shared ethnic identities between the employees and employer. However, in this study, we broke away from these conditional boundaries, and used the Grounded theory to capture both entrepreneurs’ and employees’ views. Interestingly, we found a socially constructed interdependence between them, stemming from mutual reciprocity. The findings offer significant implications for substantive theory and practice in the realm of LMF in general, and negotiated flexible work arrangements in particular.

摘要

我们在移民劳工增加和当地劳动力不可用的情况下调查了小型危险公司的谈判劳动力市场灵活性 (LMF)。现有文献讨论了雇主和雇员之间的谈判，前提是公司满足以下条件：公司特异性、雇员归类为核心-边缘，以及雇员和雇主之间共享的种族身份。然而，在这项研究中，我们打破了这些条件界限，并使用扎根理论来捕捉企业家和员工的观点。有趣的是，我们发现它们之间存在社会建构的相互依存关系，源于相互的互惠。这些发现对 LMF 领域的实质性理论和实践具有重要意义，