Outsourcing the employment relationship

The rise of outsourcing could render the traditional employment relationship obsolete, in turn undermining the whole notion of human resource management, writes Stephen Overell.

  • Employers hide in the shadows   By Stephen Overell, writing in Personnel Today.

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