From widgets to digits : employment regulation for the changing workplace / Katherine V.W. Stone.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stone, Katherine Van Wezel, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Industrial relations.

Labor market.

Manpower policy.

Human capital.

Employees.

Organizational change.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 300 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2004.

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

From Widgits to Digits is about the changing nature of the employment relationship and its implications for labor and employment law. For most of the twentieth century, employers fostered long-term employment relationships through the use of implicit promises of job security, well-defined hierarchical job ladders, and longevity-based wage and benefit schemes. Today's employers no longer value longevity or seek to encourage long-term attachment between the employee and the firm. Instead employers seek flexibility in their employment relationships. As a result, employees now operate as free agents in a boundaryless workplace, in which they move across departmental lines within firms, and across firm borders, throughout their working lives. Today's challenge is to find a means to provide workers with continuity in wages, on-going training opportunities, sustainable and transferable skills, unambiguous ownership of their human capital, portable benefits, and an infrastructure of support structures to enable them to weather career transitions.

Notes:

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Print version:

ISBN:

9780511617089

Access Restriction:

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