Atypical Employment Relationships and Commitment: Wishful Thinking or HR Challenge?**

From: Management Revue | Date: July 1, 2004| Author: Torka, Nicole | Copyright information

Nowadays, simultaneously maintaining flexible working practices and commitment is an important topic for HR managers since they both can contribute to organisational success. However, many HRM researchers and practitioners are unsure whether these can go together as job security is often seen as a necessary condition for commitment. Since relatively little research has yet been completed, this article contributes to this discussion. The aim of this article is to explain how flexible workers c...

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