(Faculty of Management, Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania, 2016) Akanji, Babatunde
The purpose of this study is to investigate the morbid use of numerical labour flexibility with a specific focus on
casual labour employment. Scholarly enquiries into labour casualization have often been assessed from a labourmarket flexibility perspective and/or managerial control of labour. In contrast, this research attempts to add to
literature by unveiling the experiences facing these organisational cohort from narrative accounts of employees. In
doing so, 20 interviews were conducted with casual staffs employed as security guards, cleaners and shelve
stackers at one of the Shoprite supermarket subsidiary operating in Nigeria. The findings exposed ebbing HR
practices regulating working conditions of these set of workers based on the low skill nature of their job roles.
Consequently, practical implications of the study proposes demands for HR managers to reconceptualise HRM
best practices that would accommodate and support casual labourers based on the rising need for firms to remain flexible in response to changing market vagaries.