Precarious Work and Qualitative Health Aspects
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BUSINESS- MANAGINGPRECARIOUS WORK
TABLE OF CONTENTSEssay question - What are some challenges of managing a precarious workforce?........................4INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................4MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................4Incompetent Human Resource Management .............................................................................4Onset of digitalization and AI.....................................................................................................5Lack of awareness with respect to Employment Relations and Industrial Relations..................5Health and safety standards.........................................................................................................6Effects of Organisational Behaviour...........................................................................................7CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9
Essay question - What are some challenges of managing a precarious workforce?INTRODUCTIONPrecarious workforce is the segment in the labour markets which deals with thereplacement for fulfilling needs of permanent jobs but without the benefits and provisions ofsuch profiles. Its focus is on the attached insecurities and uncertainties of the workforce incontext to this temporary setup of work, namely termed as 'precarious'. This assignment isbased on the challenges that any management of organisation face while maintaining this trickyscenario. It will include about the mismanagement of precarious workforce, which is becoming asocio-economic determinant that has impacted the labour markets and the government'sregulatory framework to manage a safe and healthy environment.MAIN BODYWith advent of technological advancements and globalization, there are several changesin the workings of the labour markets, which have become flexible with a uniformity in regulatoryframeworks. However, it also establishes networks of low wages and hazardous profiles forunsegmented taskforce in any organization in any sector or industry (Stewart and Stanford,2017).Additionally, there is a rise of new employment forms due to sudden increase in the jobinsecurities. The following are the few challenges while managing a precarious workforce:Incompetent Human Resource Management When there is lack of collaboration and understanding between this type of taskforceand the Human Resource Development of an organization, then it leads to mismanagement ofthe entire taskforce and leads to side-effects in terms of the employer. In this regard, there arefew additional parameters that add to the precarious nature. It consists of constant pressure ofcreating jobs, lack of benefits, cultural differences and work ethics with individual's moralprinciples. Taskforce are mainly hired on temporary basis and sometimes, it is difficult inhandling the responsibilities and assigned tasks in appropriate time-frames with effectiveness. On the other hand, Arrowsmith, 2016 stated that it is important that rationalism occurs tosupervise this ongoing conceptual modes. Here, the HR department tries to bring balance bygiving clear and concise instructions and code of conduct to be followed. They foster positiveoutlooks to bridge the gaps between such workers for better productivity at workplaces.However, in this uncertain crisis, there is communication gaps that makes the workers hesitantand unapproachable which impacts the business environment in adverse manner. Along withthis, the employer also incur losses that has adverse impact on the profitability and productivityas well. The challenge is that quality gets hampered as there are no fixed benchmarks in the
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