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As organizations continue to “offshore” many of their operations across national boundaries, they also reconfigure their relationship with their workforce. In this paper, we examine the impact of offshoring on the employer-employee contract, primarily through the lens of the exit-voice argument proposed by the economist Alfred Hirschman in 1970. Our contention is that offshoring reconfigures the employer-employee relationship, replacing earlier psychological contracts with an increasingly transactional character. We also present a framework of new HR imperatives that confront organizations and employees in the post-offshoring age, and challenge ideological formulations which conflate corporate welfare and social welfare.
Author(s):
Raza Mir
William Paterson University
United States
Babita Srivastava
Independent Researcher
United States
