08 Staffing Organizations Case Study.
08 Staffing Organizations Case Study.
Staffing Organizations
1. A summary of the possible advantages and disadvantages
of flexible staffing.
Advantages:
Its general purpose is to furnish qualified employees to companies (customers) on
an as-needed basis, thus helping the customer implement a flexible staffing strategy.
It furnishes employees in four major groups: production, clerical, technical, and
professional/ managerial. FSS performs all recruitment, selection, and employment
activities. Availability of employee any time for any direction of work. Employees
may be furnished to the customer on a strictly temporary basis (“temps”) or on a
“temp-to-perm” basis, in which the employees convert from being temporary
employees of FSS to being permanent employees of the customer after a 90-day
probationary period. Employee can work on regular or temporary basis and freedom
from litigation (workers’ compensation insurance, EEO, torts)
Disadvantages:
It is a new way of human resources management and not every company is confident
to hire employees in such a way; Employees are not very much professional in one
direction only.
Disadvantages:
It has much more compensations and extra fees which are not always convenient for
the employer. FSS charges the customer as follows. There is a standard fee per
employee furnished of 1.55 × base wage × hours worked per week. It has a standard
selection system used for all applicants