Unequal Britain at Work

Unequal Britain at Work
Author: Alan Felstead
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2015-08-13
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 019102192X

This book provides the first systematic assessment of trends in inequality in job quality in Britain in recent decades. It assesses the pattern of change drawing on the nationally representative Skills and Employment Surveys (SES) carried out at regular intervals from 1986 to 2012. These surveys collect data from workers themselves thereby providing a unique picture of trends in job quality. The book is concerned both with wage and non-wage inequalities (focusing, in particular on skills, training, task discretion, work intensity, organizational participation, and job security), and how these inequalities relate to class, gender, contract status, unionisation, and type of employer. Amid rising wage inequality there has nevertheless been some improvement in the relative job quality experienced by women, part-time employees, and temporary workers. Yet the book reveals the remarkable persistence of major inequalities in the working conditions of other categories of employee across periods of both economic boom and crisis. Beginning with a theoretical overview, before describing the main data series, this book examines how job quality differs between groups and across time.

Work Stress

Work Stress
Author: Chris Peterson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 211
Release: 2018-12-20
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1351840576

Sociologists and health experts from the U.K., Scandinavia, Australia, and the U.S. discuss issues surrounding stress in the workplace, including its causes and ways in which jobs can be designed to minimize it. The book is intended for professionals and students in occupational health and safety.

All Change at Work?

All Change at Work?
Author: Alex Bryson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 309
Release: 2002-09-11
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1134625146

This book is the latest publication reporting the results of a series of workplace surveys. Comprehensive in scope, the results are statistically reliable and reveal the nature and extent of change in all bar the smallest British workplaces.

Handbook of Organizational Politics

Handbook of Organizational Politics
Author: Eran Vigoda-Gadot
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 423
Release: 2016-03-25
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 178471349X

The Handbook of Organizational Politics offers a broad perspective on the intriguing phenomena of power, influence and politics in the modern workplace; their meaning for individuals, groups and other organizational stakeholders; and their effect on organizational outcomes and performances. Comprising entirely of new chapters and insights, this second edition revisits the theory on organizational politics (OP) and examines its progress and changes in emphasis in recent years. This timely and informative book provides a comprehensive set of state-of-the-art studies on workplace politics based on experiences from around the world. The contributors highlight topics such as political skills, political will, politics and leadership, compensations, politics and performance, and politics and the learning climate. Students and scholars will benefit from the up-to-date collection of studies in the field of OP. This Handbook will also be of interest to practitioners and managers from public and private sectors looking for better explanations of internal processes in business.

Flexibility and Stability in Working Life

Flexibility and Stability in Working Life
Author: B. Furaker
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2007-03-14
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0230235387

Flexibility is an ambiguous concept. This book contributes to expounding the importance of clearer concepts in the debates on economic systems, labour markets and work organization. The authors place 'flexibility' in a new theoretical context as juxtaposed to 'stability'. Much terminological confusion and is resolved by this suggestion.