A Strategic Model of Temporary Staffing Book

	List of Figures
	List of Tables
	Acknowledgments
1	Introduction	1
2	The Nature of Contingent Employment	5
	Contingent employment and the nature of today's work force	5
	Benefits and costs of contingent employment	7
3	Temporary Staffing and Competitive Strategy	11
	Porter's competitive strategy framework	11
	Strategy and human resource management	12
	Transaction cost theory	16
	Comparison of transaction cost and agency theories	17
	Transaction costs, strategy and the staffing decision	18
	Job differences and temporary employee usage	19
	Job attributes affecting transaction cost levels	21
	The temporary-appropriateness of jobs	25
	Strategic temporary staffing	28
4	Hypothesis Development	31
	A strategic model of temporary staffing	31
	Production strategy and temporary employment	32
	Marketing strategy and temporary employment	33
	Organizational performance	34
5	Methods	37
	Sample and survey	37
	Variables	38
6	Results	43
7	Discussion and Conclusions	55
	App. A	71
	References	79
	Index	85