Artikel
Commitment and the new employment relationship: Exploring a forgotten perspective. Employers commitment
In this article, we have endeavoured to integrate the concept 'employers' commitment' into the understanding of the new employment relationship. HRM scholars and practitioners assume that changes in (international) market and employee characteristics lead to a transformation of the employer-employee relationship: from a life-long, 'steady' relationship to life-time employability based on diminished job-security and enhanced employer and employee investments in training and development. We examine employees' internalisations with respect to this new relationship, or at least their identification with it. 'Employers commitment', a concept that has been neglected empirically to a large extent in management and work sciences, serves as the backbone of our argument, and refers to the commitment the employee receives from the employer. From the workers' perspective, 'employers' commitment' has everything to do with 'traditional' expectations about social aspects of the employer-employee relationship and with (individualised) employment relations. Concerning the latter, adequate 'direct participation' is the key. Since none of the employees mentioned any dimension of the so-called 'new deal' (e.g. job insecurity, training and career development, mobility) while describing their interpretation of 'employers commitment', (further) food for thought concerning the balance of the contemporary connection between employer and employee connection is presented.
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Englisch
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Journal: Management Revue ; ISSN: 1861-9916 ; Volume: 16 ; Year: 2005 ; Issue: 4 ; Pages: 525-539 ; Mering: Rainer Hampp Verlag
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Management
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employment relationship
reciprocity
employee commitment
employer commitment
Arbeitsbeziehungen
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Torka, Nicole
Looise, Jan Kees
van Riemsdijk, Maarten
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Veröffentlichung
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Rainer Hampp Verlag
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Mering
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2005
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- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Artikel
Beteiligte
- Torka, Nicole
- Looise, Jan Kees
- van Riemsdijk, Maarten
- Rainer Hampp Verlag
Entstanden
- 2005
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