Employment Regimes And The Quality Of Work

Author : Duncan Gallie
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780199566037

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Employment Regimes and the Quality of Work by Duncan Gallie Pdf

The book makes a major new contribution to the sociology of employment by comparing the quality of working life in European societies with very different institutional systems--France, Germany, Great Britain, Spain, and Sweden. It focuses in particular on skills and skill development, opportunities for training, the scope for initiative in work, the difficulty of combining work and family life, and the security of employment. Drawing on a range of nationally representative surveys, it reveals striking differences in the quality of work in different European countries. It also provides for the first time rigorous comparative evidence on the experiences of different types of employee and an assessment of whether there has been a trend over time to greater polarization between a core workforce of relatively privileged employees and a peripheral workforce suffering from cumulative disadvantage. It explores the relevance of three influential theoretical perspectives, focussing respectively on the common dynamics of capitalist societies, differences in production regimes between capitalist societies, and differences in the institutional systems of employment regulation. It argues that it is the third of these--an 'employment regime' perspective--that provides the most convincing account of the factors that affect the quality of work in capitalist societies. The findings underline the importance of differences in national policies for people's experiences of work and point to the need for a renewal at European level of initiatives for improving the quality of work.

Author : Duncan Gallie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Labor policy
ISBN : STANFORD:36105073319217

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The Quality of Working Life by Duncan Gallie Pdf

Author : Thomas Amossé,Alex Bryson,John Forth,Héloïse Petit
Publisher : Springer
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781137574190

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Comparative Workplace Employment Relations by Thomas Amossé,Alex Bryson,John Forth,Héloïse Petit Pdf

This comprehensive study provides a perceptive portrait of workplace employment relations in Britain and France using comparable data from two large-scale surveys: the British Workplace Employment Relations Survey (WERS) and the French Enquête Relations Professionnelles et Négociations d’Entreprise (REPONSE). These extensive linked employer-employee surveys provide nationally-representative data on private sector employment relations in all but the smallest workplaces, and offer a unique opportunity to compare and contrast workplace employment relations under two very different employment regimes. An insightful read for all academics and students of employment, the findings also have implications for practitioners and policy-makers keen to identify and promote “best practice”.

Author : Monique Kremer,Robert Went,Godfried Engbersen
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030786823

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Better Work by Monique Kremer,Robert Went,Godfried Engbersen Pdf

This Open Access book provides a thorough analysis of the quality of work in the Netherlands, and suggests policy proposals to promote and facilitate good work for more people. New technology, flexibilization and the intensification of work will have significant consequences for all those who will still have jobs in the future, and – much less studied so far – for the quality of their work. Good work is essential for general well-being: for the individual’s quality of life, for the economy and for society. Good work for everyone should therefore be seen as an important aspiration for companies, institutions, social partners and governments. An essential read for an international audience of academics in the field of the sociology of work, labor economics and social policy, as well as for policymakers and researchers of trade unions, and representatives of other social movements.

Author : Chris Warhurst,Chris Mathieu,Rachel E. Dwyer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780191066726

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The Oxford Handbook of Job Quality by Chris Warhurst,Chris Mathieu,Rachel E. Dwyer Pdf

The aim of this Handbook is to produce an interdisciplinary and international benchmark text for anyone wanting to understand job quality. Job quality matters and has long and continually done so, even if the terminology used to describe it has, and continues, to vary. Debate about the future of work and job quality in the twenty-first century centres on the impact of the new digital technologies of the putative fourth industrial revolution. This debate compounds existing concerns about the restructuring of employment and, importantly, a worrying proliferation of poor-quality jobs, often within the context of neo-liberal political-economic hegemony since the early 1980s or the economic crisis that followed the Global Financial Crisis of the late 2000s. Job quality is offered as a solution to challenges such as health, welfare, productivity, innovation, economic competitiveness, democracy and democratic participation, Bildung/cultivation, societal equality, individual and collective quality of life, and environmental sustainability. As job quality is a key factor in addressing these and the other challenges, it needs to be understood in all its complexity in terms of what it affects as well as what affects it. This Handbook draws together into a single volume: first, an explicit focus on job quality both as a significant factor in and of itself and as producing instrumental effects on a range of other processes and outcomes; second, a catalogue of the diverse range of multiple contributions and applications related to job quality; and third, the complexity and multiple interpretations of the concept of job quality. Each chapter provides distinct responses to the question of why job quality matters, coupled to a contention about for whom or for what job quality matters most. As the chapters with their respective answers and arguments attest, there are a range of ways in which job quality is relevant to an equally broad range of social, economic, and political concerns.

Author : U. Holtgrewe,M. Ramioul,V. Kirov
Publisher : Springer
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781137461087

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Hard Work in New Jobs by U. Holtgrewe,M. Ramioul,V. Kirov Pdf

This book investigates hard work and new and expanding jobs in Europe. The interrelationship between the labour market and welfare regimes, and quality of work and life is played out at many levels: the institutional; the organizational level of the company and its customers or clients; and the level of everyday life at the workplace and beyond it.

Author : Bengt Furåker,Kristina Håkansson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351121125

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Work Orientations by Bengt Furåker,Kristina Håkansson Pdf

Work orientations and work attitudes have to do with the productive capacities in society. Insofar as individuals are positively oriented towards contributing their labour, we can expect a great amount of work to be done and to be carried out efficiently, carefully and responsibly. These subjective factors are thus very vital in modern working life. Work Orientations: Theoretical Perspectives and Empirical Findings offers up-to-date research on people’s commitment to work and employment and job satisfaction in economically advanced countries. It will also analyse changes that have taken place in these respects over the last decades. Among the key issues in Work Orientations are questions about whether patterns of work centrality and employment commitment tend to remain stable or have changed across time in various countries. Moreover, we assume that the circumstances under which people participate in the social division of labour colour their subjective relationships to their jobs and to employment in general. A major aim of the book is to explore the impact of factors such as occupation, education, age and gender on work orientations and work attitudes. Work Orientations will be invaluable for researchers and scholars in the fields or organizational studies, the sociology of work, employee engagement and related disciplines.

Author : Bjørn Hvinden,Christer Hyggen,Mi Ah Schoyen,Tomáš Sirovátka
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781788118897

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Youth Unemployment and Job Insecurity in Europe by Bjørn Hvinden,Christer Hyggen,Mi Ah Schoyen,Tomáš Sirovátka Pdf

Providing original insights into the factors causing early job insecurity in European countries, this book examines its short- and long-term consequences. It assesses public policies seeking to diminish the risks to young people facing prolonged job insecurity and reduce the severity of these impacts. Based on the findings of a major study across nine European countries, this book examines the diverse strategies that countries across the continent use to help young people overcome employment barriers.

Author : Duncan Gallie
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780191641800

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Economic Crisis, Quality of Work, and Social Integration by Duncan Gallie Pdf

The quality of working life has been central to the sociological agenda for several decades, and has also been increasingly salient as a policy issue, and for companies. This book breaks new ground in the study of the quality of work by providing the first rigorous comparative assessment of the way it has been affected by the economic crisis. It examines the implications of the crisis on developments in skills and training, employees' control over their jobs, and the pressure of work and job security. It also assesses how changing experiences at work affect people's lives outside of work: the risks of work-life conflict, the motivation to work, personal well-being, and attitudes towards society. The book draws on a rich new source of evidence—the European Social Survey-to provide a comparative view over the period 2004 to 2010. The survey provides evidence for countries across the different regions of Europe and allows for a detailed assessment of the view that institutional differences between European societies—in terms of styles of management, social partnership practices, and government policies—lead to very different levels of work quality and different experiences of the crisis. This comparative aspect will thus forward our understanding of how institutional differences between European societies affect work experiences and their implications for non-work life.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264278240

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OECD Guidelines on Measuring the Quality of the Working Environment by OECD Pdf

This publication presents an internationally agreed set of guidelines for producing more comparable statistics on the quality of the working environment, a concept that encompasses all the non-pecuniary aspects of one's job, and is one of the three dimensions of the OECD Job Quality framework.

Author : Giles Anthony,Jacques Belanger,Paul-Andre Lapointe,Gregor Murray
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135842109

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Work and Employment in the High Performance Workplace by Giles Anthony,Jacques Belanger,Paul-Andre Lapointe,Gregor Murray Pdf

There is a general consensus that deep-seated changes are reshaping the way production and work are organized, the way employees, employers and their representatives deal with each other, and the way governments seek to shape society. In this work a group of leading scholars take stock of the evidence and implications of the new workplace. Drawing on examples from a variety of national contexts, they seek to characterize the nature of contemporary workplace change, and assess its implications for the organization of work for workers, for employment relations and for public policy.

Author : Stephen Edgell,Heidi Gottfried,Edward Granter
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 729 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781473943285

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The SAGE Handbook of the Sociology of Work and Employment by Stephen Edgell,Heidi Gottfried,Edward Granter Pdf

The SAGE Handbook of the Sociology of Work and Employment is a landmark collection of original contributions by leading specialists from around the world. The coverage is both comprehensive and comparative (in terms of time and space) and each ‘state of the art’ chapter provides a critical review of the literature combined with some thoughts on the direction of research. This authoritative text is structured around six core themes: Historical Context and Social Divisions The Experience of Work The Organization of Work Nonstandard Work and Employment Work and Life beyond Employment Globalization and the Future of Work. Globally, the contours of work and employment are changing dramatically. This handbook helps academics and practitioners make sense of the impact of these changes on individuals, groups, organizations and societies. Written in an accessible style with a helpful introduction, the retrospective and prospective nature of this volume will be an essential resource for students, teachers and policy-makers across a range of fields, from business and management, to sociology and organization studies.

Author : Karin Gottschall,Bernhard Kittel,Kendra Briken,Jan-Ocko Heuer,Sylvia Hils,Sebastian Streb,Markus Tepe
Publisher : Springer
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137313119

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Public Sector Employment Regimes by Karin Gottschall,Bernhard Kittel,Kendra Briken,Jan-Ocko Heuer,Sylvia Hils,Sebastian Streb,Markus Tepe Pdf

This book explores the extent to which a transformation of public employment regimes has taken place in four Western countries, and the factors influencing the pathways of reform. It demonstrates how public employment regimes have unravelled in different domains of public service, contesting the idea that the state remains a 'model' employer.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264362574

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Negotiating Our Way Up Collective Bargaining in a Changing World of Work by OECD Pdf

Collective bargaining and workers’ voice are often discussed in the past rather than in the future tense, but can they play a role in the context of a rapidly changing world of work? This report provides a comprehensive assessment of the functioning of collective bargaining systems and workers’ voice arrangements across OECD countries, and new insights on their effect on labour market performance today.

Author : S. Drobnic,A. Guillén
Publisher : Springer
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011-06-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230307582

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Work-Life Balance in Europe by S. Drobnic,A. Guillén Pdf

Examining the debate on quality of jobs in Europe, this book focuses on the work-life balance-a central element of the EU agenda. It addresses tensions between work and private life, examining job quality, job security, working conditions and time-use patterns of individuals and households as well as institutional contexts.