Deploying Nonstandard Workers: Organizational Structure Perspective - With reference to Japanese Workplace

Kumudinei Dissanayake

doi:10.31686/ijier.vol4.iss10.614

Authors

Kumudinei Dissanayake

University of Colombo, Sri Lanka

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31686/ijier.vol4.iss10.614

Abstract

Ample writings on organizational structure have devoted to theorization and empiricism-based discussions of structural arrangements for standard (or regular) workers in organizations.However, theorizations, debates and discussions on organizational structural arrangements for nonstandard (or non-regular) workers seem to be rare. Aim of this study is to bring out structural possibilities for deploying nonstandard workers while reviewing the literature on newly emerging organizational structures and with the support of empirical evidence in the Japanese workplace. Present study recognizes that the nonstandard work arrangements can be facilitated by the emerging new structures of work organizations. Such arrangements predict the possibility of deploying nonstandard workers in numerous ways still allowing them the freedom to adapt a flexible and agile career of their own. Thus, the structures alike virtual, networked, process-based, team-based etc. would provide the stage for both workers and the organizations to fulfill their expectations.

Author Biography

Kumudinei Dissanayake, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka

Department of Management & Organization Studies, Faculty of Management & Finance

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