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Corvane Pharma expects demand for its products to be highly volatile. It wants to maintain a small permanent core of specialists while using freelancers, part-time staff and outsourced providers to flex capacity at short notice. Which workforce model is Corvane adopting?

Corvane is adopting a flexible firm model, with a small permanent core and a flexible periphery of freelancers, part-timers and outsourced providers. This gives numerical flexibility to respond to volatile demand while retaining critical skills in the core.

  1. AA succession planning model
  2. BA flexible firm model with core and peripheral workersCorrect
  3. CA balanced scorecard model
  4. DA competency framework model

Explanation

Handy's shamrock and Atkinson's flexible firm describe a core of key permanent staff surrounded by peripheral workers and contractors providing numerical flexibility. Succession planning, scorecards and competency frameworks do not address workforce structure for flexibility.

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