Employment Relationship

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