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HRM Practices in Numerical flexibility

HRM Practices in Numerical flexibility Numerical flexibility is one of the common workforce flexibilities in any large firms to balance their production and services level. This workforce flexibility ensures that the labour supply of an organization on demand for products and services day, week and yearly are adjusted by the amount of labour they employee. It provides the organization to react to the market demands and balance the quality of the production through overtime, part-time/temporary work, variable working hours, fixed-time contracts. Having flexibility in work hours, that provide employees to have flexible hours of work, overtime schemes, increase part-time/temporary contracts, e.g. an organization applying numerical flexibility requires a minimum of two replacement workers or shift workers to be throughout the work. Therefore, the employment number will be higher in shift workers than permanent employees. in the other hand organization receiv...