What effect does organisational flexibility have on employees?
The research will address these questions using comparable workplace data for the UK the Workplace Employment Relations Survey (WERS) of 2004 and France REPONSE 2004. These data sets are particularly rich in their coverage of workplace practices, and both contain information obtained from employers and employees, thus permitting examination of employer and employee experiences with organisational flexibility. The rationale for a comparative analysis of organisational flexibility in the two countries is the contrasts between them. The UK is generally perceived to be a country that has embraced organisational flexibility in the last two decades under a labour market model that is characterised as Anglo-American , juxtaposed to the European social model. The French system is more heavily regulated by the government and there is strong social and political opposition to radical moves towards organisational flexibility. It is therefore valuable to explore the incidence, correlates and effec
