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Seeking stability in unstable employment: An exploratory study of temporary agency workers' career self-management
Journal of Vocational Behavior ( IF 11.1 ) Pub Date : 2023-04-26 , DOI: 10.1016/j.jvb.2023.103877
Jana Retkowsky, Sanne Nijs, Jos Akkermans, Svetlana Khapova, Paul Jansen

Increasingly dynamic labor markets have caused a steep increase in nonstandard workers. This study focuses on agency temps who work via labor market intermediaries at client organizations. The short-term and frequently changing nature of their jobs creates uncertainty about their employment and personal stability. Based on an explorative qualitative interview study among 27 agency temps, we studied how agency temps self-manage their careers. Our study reveals that the precarious career environment and financial dependence on agency work make agency temps' career self-management different from existing depictions of career self-management in the literature. Specifically, we reveal that agency temps' career self-management engagement is relatively short-term and primarily reactive. We find that they focus on survival and stability as career goals, and they engage in four career behaviors: (1) moonlighting, (2) self-profiling, (3) compensatory career behavior, and (4) job search behavior. Subsequently, we identify two negative long-term outcomes of these career behaviors: (1) being locked-in and (2) experiencing resource loss during unemployment. Accordingly, this study contributes to the nascent literature on temporary agency work and career self-management by identifying career behaviors and consequences in a precarious and volatile context. Our findings can help career counselors and policy-makers safeguard the career self-management of agency temps.



中文翻译:

在不稳定的就业中寻求稳定:临时工职业自我管理的探索性研究

日益活跃的劳动力市场导致非标准工人急剧增加。这项研究的重点是通过客户组织的劳动力市场中介工作的代理临时工。他们工作的短期和频繁变化的性质给他们的就业和个人稳定性带来了不确定性。基于对 27 名代理临时工的探索性定性访谈研究,我们研究了代理临时工如何自我管理他们的职业生涯。我们的研究表明,不稳定的职业环境和对代理工作的经济依赖使代理临时工的职业自我管理不同于文献中现有的职业自我管理描述。具体来说,我们发现代理临时工的职业自我管理参与是相对短期的,主要是被动的。我们发现他们将生存和稳定作为职业目标,他们从事四种职业行为:(1) 兼职,(2) 自我剖析,(3) 补偿性职业行为,以及 (4) 求职行为。随后,我们确定了这些职业行为的两个负面长期结果:(1) 被锁定和 (2) 在失业期间经历资源损失。因此,本研究通过识别不稳定和多变的环境中的职业行为和后果,为关于临时代理工作和职业自我管理的新生文献做出了贡献。我们的研究结果可以帮助职业顾问和政策制定者保护代理临时工的职业自我管理。我们确定了这些职业行为的两个负面长期结果:(1) 被锁定和 (2) 在失业期间经历资源损失。因此,本研究通过识别不稳定和多变的环境中的职业行为和后果,为关于临时代理工作和职业自我管理的新生文献做出了贡献。我们的研究结果可以帮助职业顾问和政策制定者保护代理临时工的职业自我管理。我们确定了这些职业行为的两个负面长期结果:(1) 被锁定和 (2) 在失业期间经历资源损失。因此,本研究通过识别不稳定和多变的环境中的职业行为和后果,为关于临时代理工作和职业自我管理的新生文献做出了贡献。我们的研究结果可以帮助职业顾问和政策制定者保护代理临时工的职业自我管理。

更新日期:2023-04-26
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