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On the job and co-worker commitment of Dutch agency workers and permanent employees

Torka, N.; Schyns, B.

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N. Torka



Abstract

This article explores the relationship between employment status (agency workers vs. permanent employees) and affective and normative job and co-worker commitment. Our study was conducted on employees from four metal companies in the Netherlands. As HRM practices seem to influence employee commitment, we performed 89 interviews across all four companies and included blue-collar workers, their managers (direct supervisors, HR managers and production managers), as well as works council members. To test our hypotheses on commitment differences, we conducted quantitative research within the companies (permanent employees N = 167; agency workers N = 54), all blue-collar workers. Results show that permanent employees and agency workers express similar degrees of commitment to their job and to their co-workers, apart from affective commitment to co-workers, which is lower for agency workers than for permanent workers. We argue that national legislation, as well as managers' attempts to offer HR practices equal to those of permanent staff, play a prominent role in stimulating agency workers' commitment.

Citation

Torka, N., & Schyns, B. (2010). On the job and co-worker commitment of Dutch agency workers and permanent employees. The International Journal of Human Resource Management, 21(8), 1307-1322. https://doi.org/10.1080/09585192.2010.483858

Journal Article Type Article
Publication Date Jun 1, 2010
Deposit Date Nov 23, 2010
Publicly Available Date Jan 7, 2011
Journal International Journal of Human Resource Management
Print ISSN 0958-5192
Electronic ISSN 1466-4399
Publisher Taylor and Francis Group
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 21
Issue 8
Pages 1307-1322
DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/09585192.2010.483858
Keywords Agency workers vs. permanent employees, Colleague commitment, HR practices, Job commitment.
Public URL https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1514913

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This is an electronic version of an article published in Torka, N. and Schyns, B. (2010) 'On the job and co-worker commitment of Dutch agency workers and permanent employees.', International journal of human resource management., 21 (8). pp. 1307-1322.
International journal of human resource management is available online at: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/ with the open URL of your article.





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