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I-deals: Idiosyncratic Deals Employees Bargain for Themselves book cover

1st Edition

I-deals Idiosyncratic Deals Employees Bargain for Themselves

By Denise Rousseau Copyright 2005
276 Pages
by Routledge

276 Pages
by Routledge

276 Pages
by Routledge
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Employees with valuable skills and a sense of their own worth can make their jobs, pay, perks, and career opportunities different from those of their coworkers in subtle and not-so-subtle ways. Work at home arrangements, flexible hours, special projects - personally negotiated arrangements like these can be a valuable source of flexibility and personal satisfaction, but at the risk of creating... Read more
Preface and Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. What Is an Idiosyncratic Deal? 2. Everyday Idiosyncrasy and Its Many Forms; 3. Shady Deals: What I-deals Are Not; 4. Signs of I-deals in Organizational Research; 5. I-deal Types: Six-Plus Ways Employees Bargain; 6. Employees and the Negotiation Process; 7. Coworkers: The I-Deal's Most Interested Third Parties; 8. Organizational Perspectives on I-deals as a Human Resource Practice; 9. Cross-National Factors and Idiosyncratic Deals; 10. Learning from I-deals; Notes; About the Author; Index

Biography

Denise M. Rousseau is the H.J. Heinz II Professor of Organizational Behavior and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University and served as president of the Academy of Management in 2004–2005. A graduate of the University of California at Berkeley (AB, MA, PhD), she has been elected Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Society for Industrial/Organizational Psychology, the Academy of Management, and the British Academy of Management, and currently is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Organizational Behavior. Her book Psychological Contracts in Organizations won the Academy of Management’s Terry Award in 1996. Her research examines employment relations and change in start-ups, high-technology firms, hospitals, high-reliability organizations, and nonprofits in many countries.

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