This is the sixth annual Call Centres report on pay and HR practices. It allows call centres to benchmark their reward and retention strategies by offering comprehensive coverage of latest market rates, regional pay variations, bonuses and more.
Call Center Staffing: The Complete, Practical Guide to Workforce Management
Lachman, M. L. (2004) The New Exports: Office Jobs, New York: The Urban Land Institute and The Paul Milstein Center for Real Estate, Columbia Business School. Marks, S. (2003) 'Offshore Outsourcing: Business Boon or Bust?
Work Context and Requirements While call centres could operate either as independent organizations or as departments within ... they fall into two broad categories, namely, inbound and outbound call centres (Dormann and Zijlstra, 2003).
All these companies have listed some of the same corporations as clients, indicating that some transnational corporations outsource work to more than one call centre. Taylor and Bain (2003a) show that there is some disagreement on the ...
“Call Centre Faults under Fire.” http://newsvote.bbc.com.uk, July 2, 2003. Daga, A. “Indian Firms See Darker Side of Call Centre Boom.” Yahoo! India News, July 11, 2003. SiliconIndia.com. “Call Centres Grapple with High Attrition Rates ...
A special feature of the book is its focus on call center case studies, describing a number of successful call center strategies and best practices, selected from various business sectors - financial, retail, healthcare, travel, technology, ...
Cary L. Cooper , Theories of Organizational Stress ( New York : Oxford University Press , 1998 ) . 4. Compiled from “ Canadians Working under Increased Stress , ” CBC News Online , May 2 ...
For example , with the help of standardized computer programs , employees in call centres of banks book orders for bonds even without any comprehensive knowledge of the matter ( cf. Holman , 2003 ; Holman , Chissic , & Totterdell , 2002 ) ...
The design of call centre agents' jobs has been identified as problematic in a number of key areas. ... task variety and participation (Deery et al., 2002; Holman, 2002; Holman et al., 2007; Sprigg et al., 2003; Zapf et al., 2003).
Figures from the Labour Force Survey (March/April 2003) suggest that there are around 81 000 workers in the first group in the UK (a figure which clearly underestimates the numbers call centre agents in the UK) and 290 000 in the second ...