ABSTRACT
The Employment Relationship presents 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 Employment Relationship will make essential reading for all managers and occupational psychologists. It will also be of interest to students of work psychology, human resource management or organisational behaviour.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |8 pages
Introduction
part |103 pages
Mixed metaphors
chapter |13 pages
Family and Feud
chapter |13 pages
Crusade and Play
chapter |14 pages
Contract and Jungle
chapter |10 pages
Club and Outsider
chapter |12 pages
Resource and Discard
chapter |13 pages
Democracy and Dictatorship
chapter |12 pages
Partnership and Conflict
chapter |6 pages
Customer and Rip-off
part |7 pages
Introduction to Parts 2 and 3
part |63 pages
Relationship psychology
chapter |16 pages
Relationships and the self
chapter |12 pages
Cultures, relationships and selves
chapter |18 pages
Individual differences and employment
chapter |15 pages
Organisations and employment
part |51 pages
Employment dialogues