The volume of temporary labour has grown very fast during the last decades inEurope, as did the number of organizations with an intermediating role inrelation to temporary (contingent) labour. All over the place there are smalland large intermediaries trying to find the right persons for the...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore how a national policy on sickness absence management is translated by HR managers into local human resource management (HRM) practices by developing and applying an analytical framework with three dimensions: individual preferences, strategic...