| Description |
xii, 282 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: 1 Challenges facing the employment relationship: introduction 1 -- Nine key challenges 1 -- The structure of the book 3 -- The problem of hypercompetition: managing the employment -- relationship in times of disorder? 5 -- New organizational forms and knowledge-based competition 6 -- The political economic context for work 10 -- The new flexibilities 11 -- New psychological contracts, new careers? 14 -- Critical views of the psychological contract 18 -- Future psychological contract scenarios 19 -- References 23 -- 2 The psychological contract 28 -- Key mechanisms of the psychological contract 28 -- Getting the measure of the psychological contract 30 -- The employment contract: legal regulation of the relationship 32 -- Theory of psychological contracting: promises and mental models 34 -- Managing change in an individual's psychological contract 39 -- Psychological contract violation 41 -- References 49 -- 3 The changing structure of employment 53 -- Introduction 53 -- Have we been here before? Historical changes in the employment -- relationship 55 -- Demand factors behind the changing structure of employment 57 -- The slow demise of long-term attachments 62 -- The growth of non-traditional employment 64 -- Episodes of temporary employment 66 -- Is the growth of temporary and part-time employment a demand -- or supply factor? 68 -- References 71 -- 4 Job stability and employee outcomes 76 -- Introduction 76 -- Job stability 76 -- Changes in commitment? 80 -- A future model? 85 -- Or a risk of economic apartheid? 89 -- References 90 -- 5 Quality of the employment relationship: trust and job insecurity 93 -- Quality of the employment relationship: social climate factors 93 -- The role of organizational justice 96 -- The nature of trust 99 -- The downsizing phenomenon 105 -- Life beyond downsizing: survivor syndrome 106 -- Job insecure or not? 108 -- Trust and security in abeyance? 112 -- The self-adjusting animal? The view from longitudinal studies 114 -- References 117 -- 6 Work and career transitions 128 -- Introduction: new patterns of career behaviour? 128 -- Negotiating career contracts 130 -- Re-engaging the workforce 136 -- Theoretical insights into work transitions 141 -- Career adjustments: underemployment and relative deprivation 147 -- References 150 -- 7 Individualization of human resource management 155 -- Individualization of work 155 -- War for talent thinking and employee value propositions 158 -- Career success and social capital 161 -- Idiosyncratic dealing 165 -- Limits: the price of individual stars 168 -- References 173 -- 8 Managing the new individual-organization linkages 177 -- Individual differences in the relationship with the organization 177 -- Organizational commitment 180 -- Commitment and boundaryless workers 188 -- Organizational identification 189 -- Identifying with atypical organizations 193 -- Psychological ownership 196 -- Job satisfaction and part-time work 197 -- The desirability of job-crafting behaviours 200 -- Overidentification and engagement: workaholism 202 -- References 204 -- 9 work-life balance 215 -- Work-life balance and the employment relationship 215 -- Theoretical perspectives on work-life balance 218 -- Employer policies and strategies 219 -- Moving beyond the feminization of work 224 -- Commitment and the link to non-work obligations 227 -- The long work hours culture 229 -- Long work hours and well-being 231 -- The agenda for change 234 -- References 236 -- 10 New generations: new expectations and new problems? 242 -- Introduction 242 -- Generational research on work values 244 -- The work values, attitudes and behaviours of 'young workers' 248 -- Family influences and imaging inertia theory 250 -- Will the next generation trust in business? 252 -- Demography as destiny? 254 -- Who will pay my pension? 255 -- Immigration as opposed to a longer working life? 258 -- Scaling the different options 260 -- References 261 -- Name index 267 -- Subject index 279 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Industrial relations.
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Personnel management.
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Psychology, Industrial.
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Work -- Psychological aspects.
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| Author |
Cooper, Cary L.
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| LC no. |
2005357103 |
| ISBN |
0750649410 paperback |
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