The experience of temporary employees' stressors in a masonary organization: An exploratory qualitative inquiry

The exploratory qualitative inquiry explored the lived experiences of 20 temporary employees' workplace stressors and how the stressors affected their productivity within a masonry organization. Stressors left unrecognized and unaddressed create negative outcomes that compromise temporary employees' well-being, productivity, and mobility within the organization's system. The holistic view approach created possibilities that identified the experiences of temporary employees separate from that of permanent employees in the organization.;Though temporary employment in the past occupied a secondary role, today it has surged as the 21st century contemporary workforce. The surged provides a substantive approach to address new globalized marketplace challenges. The study demonstrated that task ambiguity, career interest, and culture were some of the experienced stressors that negatively influenced the temporary employees' levels of job satisfaction. The data collected and analyzed revealed that culture, communication, innovation, and leadership themes ignited the experienced stressors in the masonry organization. They illuminated looming blind spots in the organization. System methodologies, transformative change culpable to flexibility, and innovation attained success. Only by integrating and engaging temporary employees as helping hands of the 21st century workforce, can success be attained within the organization. The realization ushers fruits of equality and justice, fairly distributed within the system to attain success with less workplace stressors. The study potential opportunity securitized transformative change tools in shaping the global 21st century workforce.