The Employment Relationship

by Herriot,Peter

• ISBN13: 9781841692401
• ISBN10: 1841692409
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2002-06-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The Employment Relationshippresents a controversial perspective on an area hitherto dominated by industrial relation experts and radical sociological theorists. Exploring some of the metaphors commonly used to describe the employment relationship, Peter Herriot argues that it is often their dark rather than their bright side which best expresses how employees really feel. Human resources sometimes feel like human discards! The main culprits in this situation, he suggests, are the top managers who fail to treat employment as a relationship and employees as individuals. He concludes that management rhetoric must be replaced by real dialogue and points to three issues where this is most crucial: employee compliance, contractual inequalities and the need for organisational change. The EmploymentRelationshipwill make essential reading for all managers and occupational psychologists. It will also be of interest to students of work psychology, human resource management ororganisational behaviour.

Author Biography

Peter Herriot is a well-known commentator on organisations and employment. After a career as an academic psychologist, he has more recently been engaged in consultancy and research and was, until 2000, Editor of The European Journal of Work and Organisational Psychology

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	vii
Acknowledgements	viii
Introduction	1	(8)
PART 1 Mixed metaphors	9	(104)
Family and Feud	11	(13)
Crusade and Play	24	(13)
Contract and Jungle	37	(14)
Club and Outsider	51	(10)
Resource and Discard	61	(12)
Democracy and Dictatorship	73	(13)
Partnership and Conflict	86	(12)
Customer and Rip-off	98	(15)
Introduction to Parts 2 and 3	105	(8)
PART 2 Relationship psychology	113	(64)
Relationships and the self	115	(16)
Cultures, relationships and selves	131	(12)
Individual differences and employment	143	(18)
Organisations and employment	161	(16)
PART 3 Employment dialogues	177	(51)
The compliance dialogue	179	(11)
The difference dialogue	190	(14)
The change dialogue	204	(11)
The dialogue dialogue	215	(13)
Index	228