Key Concepts in Work"This excellent book will encourage students to think about the diverse range and broad character of issues encountered at work. It highlights both enduring dilemmas and emerging issues in contemporary employment. Each concept is carefully explained with engaging examples provided throughout. As such it will help prime students to understand key issues at work and make a first-rate addition to any social science reading list."- Nicolas Bacon, Nottingham University Business School "This authoritative, comprehensive, up-to-date, and user-friendly reference book will be appreciated greatly by all social science staff and students of work." - Stephen Edgell, University of Salford and author of The Sociology of Work The SAGE Key Concepts series provides students with accessible and authoritative knowledge of the essential topics in a variety of disciplines. Cross-referenced throughout, the format encourages critical evaluation through understanding. Written by experienced and respected academics, the books are indispensible study aids and guides to comprehension. Key Concepts in Work:
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3rd edn activities alienation aspects authority Basingstoke behaviour Blauner bureaucracy call centre career characterized collective bargaining commitment conflict consent context contract of employment culture customers discrimination discussion domestic economic Effort and Intensity emotional labour employees employment relationship example experience F.W. Taylor factors flexibility Fordism forms greater groups human relations movement ibid identified important increased increasingly individual Industrial Relations influence interests involved issues job design job enrichment job satisfaction job security key concepts knowledge labour market labour process less levels managerial control means ment motivation occupations organization organizational organizational culture overall Oxford paid Palgrave Macmillan part-time participation particular patterns performance potential pressure production psychological contract redundancy REFERENCES responsibility role Scientific Management sector significant skills social society structures tasks teamworking teleworking tion trade unions undeclared values voluntary wage women work-life balance workers workforce workplace