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Understanding freelancers: optimizing HRM for freelancer success.

Edna Rabenu1, Yonatan Shertzer2, Aharon Tziner3

  • 1Human Services Department, Tel-Hai Academic College, Upper Galilee, Israel.

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Summary

Human resource (HR) practices significantly influence managerial perceptions of freelancers. Focusing on performance and knowledge sharing, rather than relational aspects, is key to positively integrating this growing workforce segment.

Keywords:
HR practicesfreelancersknowledge sharingperformancesocial exchange theory (SET)

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Area of Science:

  • Organizational Behavior
  • Human Resource Management
  • Labor Economics

Background:

  • The rise of non-traditional employment has led to a significant increase in the freelance workforce.
  • Freelancers are crucial for knowledge-intensive and innovative projects but are often excluded from formal HR processes.
  • Understanding how HR practices impact perceptions of freelancers is vital for effective workforce integration.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To examine the influence of HR practices on organizational perceptions of freelancers.
  • To identify instrumental and relational mechanisms through which HR practices shape these perceptions.
  • To develop a freelancer-specific human resource management (HRM) model.

Main Methods:

  • A two-wave data collection approach was employed.
  • Data was gathered from 468 managers and employees in organizations utilizing independent contractors.
  • Quantitative analysis was used to assess the relationships between HR practices and perceptions.

Main Results:

  • Performance and knowledge sharing were identified as key pathways linking HR practices to positive managerial perceptions of freelancers.
  • Instrumental mechanisms, focusing on performance and knowledge sharing, demonstrated stronger links than relational mechanisms.
  • Relational mechanisms, often associated with traditional employee relationships, received limited empirical support in this context.

Conclusions:

  • The findings support a distinct HRM model tailored for freelancers.
  • Instrumental mechanisms are more central to shaping positive perceptions of freelancers than employee-like relational exchange processes.
  • Organizations should prioritize HR practices that enhance freelancer performance and facilitate knowledge sharing for better integration.