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A 3 page paper discussing differences in employee relations with consultants and lower-end outsourced employees such as temporary production workers. Focusing on the consultant, the paper discusses the advantages and disadvantages of the relationship from both the consultant and the contracting company perspective. Because outsourced individuals are or represent suppliers, the organization is free to dismiss them for any (or no) reason and with no notice.. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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File: CC6_KSmgmtConslt.rtf
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or other outsourced worker operates in many of the same respects as direct employees of the organization, but there are many differences in the employee relations aspects of their work
days. Precise differences depend on the nature of the work and the level at which it occurs - a temporary factory worker should behave differently than a high-end consultant.
Similarly, the employers role, responsibility and ability to deal with conflicts is quite different as well. Because outsourced individuals are or represent
suppliers, the organization is free to dismiss them for any (or no) reason and with no notice. Type of Role The type of
role that the outsourced individual fills greatly affects the employee relations issue. A consultant can be expected to have been called in to look at some specific problem or
assess current processes for the purpose of seeking out improvements that the organization can make to achieve better customer service or greater internal efficiency. The consultant is expected to
have managerial ability as well as the ability to assess facts, digest them into processes and formulate answers to questions that may not have yet been asked (Breitkopf, 2005).
The consultant typically is more highly paid than regular employees as well. If a consultant being paid $125 - $200 an hour has
been present for some time and has not yet identified items s/he is there to identify, then the contracting company well may dismiss the consultant for nonperformance.
In this type of role, it is the consultants job to assess what is, identify several alternatives and to recommend the best of alternatives discovered (Enlist
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