The Employment Relationship Examining Psychological and Contextual Perspectives

by Coyle-Shapiro, Jacqueline A-M.; Shore, Lynn M.; Taylor, M. Susan; Tetrick, Lois E.

• ISBN13: 9780199286836
• ISBN10: 0199286833
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-10-13
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

"This volume is designed to promote the thinking of scholars in the employment relationship area. It will also have relevance to practitioners primarily through the implications of this multidisciplinary perspective. The volume offers implications of a holistic, multidisciplinary, international conceptualization of the employment relationship for theory development, empirical research and measurement, and policy."--BOOK JACKET.

Author Biography

Jacqueline A.-M. Coyle-Shapiro is a reader in Organizational Behavior in the Department of Industrial Relations at the London School of Economics where she received her PhD. Her current research interests include the employment relationship, psychological contracts, organizational citizenship behavior, and organizational change. She has published in such journals as the European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, the Journal of Applied Behavioral Science and the Journal of Vocational Behavior. She is Consulting Editor, and has served as Guest Editor, for the Journal of Organizational Behavior. Lynn M. Shore is a Professor of Management at San Diego State University. She is also a Visiting Professor at the Graduate School of Management at the University of California, Irvine. She is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Applied Psychology, has served as Guest Editor for the Journal of Organizational Behavior, and serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management Review. M. Susan Taylor is Deans Professor of Human Resources and Director of the Center for Human Capital, Innovation, and Technology (HCIT) at the Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland at College Park. She received her Ph.D from Purdue University and is currently working the areas of organizational justice, strategic human resource management, the employee-organization relationship, and managerial career transitions. Taylor has published in such journals as the Academy of Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, the Journal of Applied Psychology, Organizational Science, Personnel Psychology, and Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. Lois E. Tetrick is Director of the Industrial and Organizational Psychology Programme at the George Mason University. She is Associate Editor of the Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, and serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Organizational Behavior. Her research has focused primarily on individuals' perceptions of the employment relationship and their reactions to these perceptions including issues of occupational health and safety, occupational stress, and organizational/union commitment.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	xi
List of Figures	xviii
List of Tables	xix
Introduction	xxi
Part I. The Nature of the Employment Relationship from Social Exchange, Justice, Industrial Relations, Legal, and Economic Literatures
The Employment Relationship through the Lens of Social Exchange	5	(24)
Jacqueline A-M. Coyle-Shapiro
Neil Conway
Justice and Employment: Moral Retribution as a Contra-subjugation Tendency	29	(19)
Robert Folger
Industrial Relations Approaches to the Employment Relationship	48	(17)
John Kelly
Legal Theory: Contemporary Contract Law Perspectives and Insights for Employment Relationship Theory	65	(29)
Mark V. Roehling
The Economic Dimension of the Employment Relationship	94	(25)
Richard N. Block
Peter Berg
Dale Belman
Commonalities and Conflicts Between Different Perspectives of the Employment Relationship: Towards a Unified Perspective	119	(16)
Jacqueline A-M. Coyle-Shapiro
M. Susan Taylor
Lynn M. Shore
Lois E. Tetrick
Part II. Examining Constructs to Capture the Exchange Nature of the Employment Relationship
Employer-oriented Strategic Approaches to the Employee-Organization Relationship	135	(26)
Lynn M. Shore
Lyman W. Porter
Shaker A. Zahra
The Employment Relationship from Two Sides: Incongruence in Employees' and Employers' Perceptions of Obligations	161	(20)
Elizabeth Wolfe Morrison
Sandra L. Robinson
Job Creep: A Reactance Theory Perspective on Organizational Citizenship Behavior as Overfulfillment of Obligations	181	(25)
Linn Van Dyne
Jennifer Butler Ellis
Perceived Organizational Support	206	(20)
Robert Eisenberger
Jason R. Jones
Justin Aselage
Ivan L. Sucharski
The Role of Leader--Member Exchange in the Dynamic Relationship Between Employer and Employee: Implications for Employee Socialization, Leaders, and Organizations	226	(27)
Robert C. Liden
Talya N. Bauer
Berrin Erdogan
Part III. Developing an Integrative Perspective of the Employment Exchange; Creating a Whole that is More than the Sum of Individual Parts; Looking Toward the Future; Developing a Research Agenda
Taking Stock of Psychological Contract Research: Assessing Progress, Addressing Troublesome Issues, and Setting Research Priorities	253	(31)
M. Susan Taylor
Amanuel G. Tekleab
Changes in the Employment Relationship Across Time	284	(28)
Rene Schalk
Understanding the Employment Relationship: Implications for Measurement and Research Design	312	(20)
Lois E. Tetrick
Employment Relationships in Context: Implications for Policy and Practice	332	(19)
David R. Hannah
Roderick D. Iverson
Directions for Future Research	351	(14)
Lynn M. Shore
Lois E. Tetrick
Jacqueline A-M. Coyle-Shapiro
M. Susan Taylor
Index	365