Developing the flexible library and information workforce.

Authors

  • Anne Goulding
  • Evelyn Kerslake

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.29173/lirg406

Keywords:

flexible, flexibility, media, employers, workplace, cost-effective, efficient, customer demands, employee demands, shortcomings, implications, skills profile, labour market, training and development,

Abstract

Flexibility is a vaguely defined media buzzword connoting the progressive, forward-looking workplace. Employers report that increased labour market flexibility has made them more cost-effective, efficient, better able to deal with customer and employee demands and the implementation of new technology. But what is happening to those workers who make up the flexible workforce? For a while in the 1980s it seemed that flexibility could do no wrong; now, however, the shortcomings of flexible labour markets are becoming more apparent.

Author Biography

Evelyn Kerslake

Department of Information and Library Studies, Loughborough University.

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Issue

Vol. 19 No. 64 (1995)

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Reports

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