... flexibility, as there are national differences in interpretation of the term of flexibility; the term has been used usually in various organisational senses, said by Sauer in 1998. Also, they states that many kinds of organisational re-structuring has been taken as an indicator of the existence of 'flexibility'. An organisational change is often related with changes in labour flexibility. There are other ways of explanation of labour flexibility. Atkinson and Meager (1986) defined four types of flexibility: 'numerical flexibility', which is the adjustment of numbers of employees in relation to changes in demand; 'functional flexibility', which changing views of what organisations should be doing based on competences and involving external contracting or outsouring; 'pay flexibility' that performance-related pay and distancing flexibility which is the provision of labour by external contracting or outsourcing whilst 'distancing flexibility', which relates the provision of labour by external contracting or outsourcing. In addition, Stephen Procter ...

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