1st Edition

Work in Challenging and Uncertain Times The Changing Employment Relationship

By Patricia Leighton, Tui McKeown Copyright 2020
264 Pages 24 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

264 Pages 24 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

264 Pages 24 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book was written as the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic began to have a devastating effect on employment across the globe. The crisis has served to highlight many deepseated, often longstanding challenges to employment relationships. These include uncertainties and fears about the impact of technological advances, concerns about safety and wellbeing and controversies around emerging business... Read more

1. Setting the Scene: Dark Forebodings 2. Voices from the Past 3. Gameplayers and Stakeholders 4. Fragmentation, Inequalities and Tensions: How are Organisations Responding? 5. Skills, Training and Development: Opportunities or Crisis? 6. Workeing Well? The Importance of Health and Wellbeing at Work 7. Regulating Employment Relationships 8. 'So what to do?'

Biography

Patricia Leighton is Professor Emeritus, University of South Wales and a Professor at Ipag Business School, France. She is an employment lawyer with wide research experience at national and international levels, is the author of many books and reports and runs her own training and consultancy business for HRM practitioners.

Tui McKeown is an Associate Professor in the Monash Business School, Monash University, Australia. Her research and publications span both the academic and practitioner space focusing on an active examination of the self employment and small business in the changing world of work.