| 单词 | overmanning |
| 释义 | overmanning The excessive use of labour in any business. This is difficult to identify, since most businesses normally employ more labour than would strictly be necessary to do the work required if everybody was fully trained and always present at work. Actual employment needs to take account of the fact that on any given occasion some varying proportion of the labour force will be undergoing training, on holiday, off sick or absent for other personal reasons. If the pattern of demand is subject to regular or random variation this will also lead to extra workers being employed to enable firms to cope with peak periods, especially if these are liable to occur without warning. Overmanning, however, is used to describe the employment of even more workers than would be justified by these considerations. It may be imposed by law, or may result from collective bargaining or from managerial choice. Management may choose overmanning through incompetence, or in the belief that demand is likely to expand in the future, and that it is cheaper to hoard labour for the time being than to lay off redundant workers now and have to recruit and train replacements in the future. |
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