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Flexible work practices: Perspectives from the southern hemisphere
South African Journal of Business Management | Vol 31, No 2 | a736 |
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/sajbm.v31i2.736
| © 2018 Frank M. Horwitz, Cameron Allan, Peter Brosnan, Pat Walsh
| This work is licensed under CC Attribution 4.0
Submitted: 12 October 2018 | Published: 30 June 2000
Submitted: 12 October 2018 | Published: 30 June 2000
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Frank M. Horwitz, Graduate School of Business, University of Cape Town, South AfricaCameron Allan, School of Industrial Relations, Griffith University, Australia
Peter Brosnan, Faculty of Commerce and Management, Griffith University, Australia
Pat Walsh, School of Business and Public Management, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
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Labour market flexibility continues to be important for employers seeking to improve productivity, reduce costs and be competitively agile. But it also carries downside costs for employees of increased insecurity, potentially deteriorating employment standards and lower morale. In this article numerical and temporal types of flexibility are considered in an analysis of three southern hemisphere countries.
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