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.
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Challenges Facing the Employment Relationship in Future Organizations addresses the issues of change within employee relationships resulting from the impact of factors such as: * international competitive pressures * technological change * changing individual expectations and behaviours The new employment contract is analysed from inside and outside organizations and the issues are addressed from both a human resource management and work psychology perspective. This book: * Reviews the phenomenon of globalization, outlining the current impacts on the employment relationship and summarizing the assumed impacts on future work * Looks at the employment relationship from a labour market perspective and reviews the evidence on an increasing individualization of the employment relationship * Reviews work by psychologists on the changing psychological contract * Provides an overview of new forms of work organization, drawing attention to research on virtual organization and implications of e-enablement * Outlines the challenges to the employment relation on a global scale * Illustrates the connection between HRM policies/practices and work psychology * Provides an up to date summary of existing research, knowledge and debate * Considers a wide range of factors that impact on change within employee relationships.
OTHER EDITION IN ANOTHER MEDIUM
Title
Employment relationship.
International Standard Book Number
0750649410
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Industrial relations.
Personnel management.
Psychology, Industrial.
Work-- Psychological aspects.
Begeleiding.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS-- Human Resources & Personnel Management.