Instruments for Private Employment Agencies: Defining the set of viable business strategies of private employment agencies - Softcover

Gouveia Miranda Agnoli, Daniel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3843392978 ISBN 13: 9783843392976

Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2011

Synopsis

The objective of this research is to define the set of viable strategies of a private employment agency and the instruments it may use to implement them. To reach this goal, four key questions must be addressed: 1) how did agency work originate, and where is it going? 2) how can agency work be done, and how can it be regulated? 3) what are the factors behind demand and supply for agency work services? 4)what instruments may be used by agencies to overcome the problem of commodification and to construct new markets? An agency seeking to overcome the commodification problem and establish a market position in a market segment with greater added value should intensify its relationships with the worker, with client firms and with society. This entails moving away from a concept of agency work as an activity resembling of ?product intermediaries?. Instruments for evolving agency work are reviewed and conditions for their application are illustrated. The key concept is to develop a long term strategy aimed at becoming a partner in the management of the human capital of client firms, not just a supplier of peripheral skills for short-term assignments.

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About the Author

Daniel Gouveia M. Agnoli, PhD, is currently working as a market research analyst for a large private employment agency. He has worked for many years as a free-lance researcher in european projects as well as for labour unions and other non profit organizazions. He obtained his PhD degree in 2010 at Adapt- Fondazione Marco Biagi.

Edition details

• Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3843392978
• ISBN 13: 9783843392976
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 200