Purpose Temporary agency working continues to grow in the UK. The purpose of this paper is to look at a number of important developments in the agency industry, which generate implications for the performance of agencies, temps and the user firms in which temps work and to set out some of the...

Purpose There has been increasing attention given to the need to bring risk thinking into the field of HRM. The purpose of this paper is to explore the nature of risk in a rapidly changing context, examines the responses being made and indicates the characteristics of resilient and adaptive...

Cover -- Editorial boards -- Guest editorial -- Improving the primary task -- Development and implementation of a multifaceted well-being intervention -- The relevance of intervention participants' process appraisal for change in well-being and lean work processes of entire teams -- Respect in...