Interim Management as choise of employment


Societal, economic and technology developments, such as the need for increased flexibility by both employers and workers, the greater use of advanced information and communications technology (ICT) and the greater importance of particular business activities and occupations are resulting in the emergence of new forms of employment. There are nine broad new forms of employment. These may be new models of employment relationship between employee and employer or client and worker, some times, the forms of employment may be differntiated by whether they involved employees or self employed workers. Stretegic employee sharing, job sharing, casual work, Mobile work, portfolio work and platform work are the propular mathods (Wild , 2012).

Interim Mnagement



Interim management is a form which a company hires a higly specialised expert for a temperory duration to fullfill a specific work such as solving a specific mangement problem or technicle challenge or to assist in finacially dificult times. The interim manager can become a employee of the receiving company and work as a contractor or third party such as work agency can employ the interim manager. This model is considerd as flexible option with out any long commitmnet. Interim manger tend to be in their 40s or 50s since their specific tasks require a high level of skills, expertise and experience, particularly in general or crisis management (Euro Found, 2018).

In general, an interim management contract carries a salary premium compared with employed managers (Inkson , et al., 2001), high level of qualification and expwetise of interim manager enhance knowledge amoung core workers of the company.

JKOA Private limited, which had a difficulty to find a well experience head of sales in its business content. They made a dicision to promote internally and hire formar retired head of sales as a interim manager to train and support newly appointed manager with a six month contract.


HR leaders has several new form of empaloyment methods to choose according to their company requirement. Having a clear cut undastang about all of these employement will help them to make the right choice. 

References

Euro Found, 2018. Overview of New Form of Employments , Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union.

Inkson , K., Heising , A. & Rousseau, D. M., 2001. The interim manager; Pototype of the 21st Century. Human Relations , pp. 259-284.

Wild , E., 2012. Time and Chance. London : Wild Seaech .

Comments

  1. Razi Jalaldeen6 May 2019 at 23:41

    Thank you for bringing up a new topic

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  2. Naz Journals 11 May 2019 at 05:00

    Interim management is good in the cooperate world if the management like to accept it, but in case of Sri Lankan cricket board, most of the time interim management unsuccessful because of the wrong chose of an expert due to political influence.

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  3. Mazeen Mansoor25 May 2019 at 07:52

    Interim Manager sounds similar to a Consultant, and it is really a good method to solve temporary issues

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  4. Apsara Wickramarathne11 June 2019 at 00:44

    The topic is a new concept and thank you for sharing.

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