The Employment Relationship: Key Challenges for HR
1st Edition
Published on 4. May 2012
288 pages
978-1-136-35797-8 (ISBN)
Description
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
* 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
Reviews / Votes
This is a plum pudding of a book which many practitioners will want to dip into: a stimulating read which, if it cannot offer definite answers, usefully helps to reformulate many of the questions.Mike Emmott, CIPD adviser, employee relations
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
File size
3,33 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-136-35797-8 (9781136357978)
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Paul Sparrow | Cary L. Cooper
The Employment Relationship: Key Challenges for HR
Key challenges for HR
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The Employment Relationship: Key Challenges for HR
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Persons
Paul R. Sparrow, Cary L. Cooppson
Content
Chapter 1 Challenges Facing the Employment Relationship: Introduction; Chapter 2 The Psychological Contract; Chapter 3 The Changing Structure of Employment; Chapter 4 Job Stability and Employee Outcomes; Chapter 5 Quality of the Employment Relationship: Trust and Job Insecurity; Chapter 6 Work and Career Transitions; Chapter 7 Individualization of Human Resource Management; Chapter 8 Managing the New Individual-Organization Linkages; Chapter 9 Work-Life Balance; Chapter 10 New Generations: New Expectations and New Problems?;
