Details of the rationale and development of unique organizational response to the challenges Motorola contingent personnel in its semiconductor facility in Austin, Texas. The new outsourcing strategy based on the principles of supply chain management and business straps to deliver flexibility in staffing, cost control, and high-quality jobs. Thanks to a detailed description of the existing methods of hiring contingent workers, sheds light on the administrative costs incurred by firms that are not able to develop a comprehensive strategic approach and provides the opportunity to explore the incentives of the different players (both internal and external) to take part in a new model based on staffing inter-firm linkages with staffing companies. Moreover, we establish a discussion of the possible difficulties are likely to encounter in the implementation of a new model of staffing and wider issues such as the evolving nature of the employment contract, the employee trust and loyalty, and strategic issues that arise when several firms are competing for the same forces . "Hide
by Nancy Dean Beaulieu Source: Harvard Business School 22 pages. Publication Date: April 9, 2002. Prod. #: 902211-PDF-ENG
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