Work Orientations
Theoretical Perspectives and Empirical Findings
- 246 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
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About This Book
Work orientations and work attitudes have to do with the productive capacities in society. Insofar as individuals are positively oriented towards contributing their labour, we can expect a great amount of work to be done and to be carried out efficiently, carefully and responsibly. These subjective factors are thus very vital in modern working life.
Work Orientations: Theoretical Perspectives and Empirical Findings offers up-to-date research on people's commitment to work and employment and job satisfaction in economically advanced countries. It will also analyse changes that have taken place in these respects over the last decades.
Among the key issues in Work Orientations are questions about whether patterns of work centrality and employment commitment tend to remain stable or have changed across time in various countries. Moreover, we assume that the circumstances under which people participate in the social division of labour colour their subjective relationships to their jobs and to employment in general. A major aim of the book is to explore the impact of factors such as occupation, education, age and gender on work orientations and work attitudes.
Work Orientations will be invaluable for researchers and scholars in the fields or organizational studies, the sociology of work, employee engagement and related disciplines.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Theoretical and Conceptual Considerations on Work Orientations
- 3 Declining Work Centrality Among Millennials—Myth or Reality?
- 4 Work as a Calling: Existential Dimensions of Individuals’ Work Orientations
- 5 Work Attitudes, Employment and Work Mobilization: A Comparison of Anglo-Saxon and Nordic Countries, 2005 and 2015
- 6 Organizational Commitment: Cross-National Differences and Work-Related Factors
- 7 Commitment in Organisations Using Temporary Agency Workers
- 8 ‘There Is No Future for Us Oldies’: Sensing Dignity and Alienation in the Cabin
- 9 Young Workers’ Job Satisfaction in Europe
- 10 Matching Work Values With Job Qualities for Job Satisfaction: A Comparison of 24 OECD Countries in 2015
- List of Contributors
- Index