A Review on Career Development Initiatives for Outsourced Employees
Abstract
Today the concept of temporariness has extensively crept into the employee-employer relationship, in organizations. Yet, the expectation from employees, in terms of outcomes, like performance and productivity, would be much similar as on-roll employees. Keeping in mind this temporary relationship, the current paper, through review of literature, has identified initiatives for career sustainability of outsourced employees. The paper is based on content analysis of 155 research papers. Through an extensive review of literature, career development initiatives by client organization and the outcome variables at individual and organization level, have been identified. It was found that out of all the career development initiatives, mentoring of temporary employees was least cited in literature, as compared with other variables. Based on the findings, the paper suggested a research framework which could be used as a base for further studies in human resource practices, leading to sustainable careers of outsourced employees.
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