Work Orientations -

Work Orientations

Theoretical Perspectives and Empirical Findings
Buch | Softcover
246 Seiten
2021
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-78534-5 (ISBN)
49,85 inkl. MwSt
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.

Bengt Furåker is Professor at the Department of Sociology and Work Science, University of Gothenburg. Kristina Håkansson is Professor at the Department of Sociology and Work Science, University of Gothenburg.

Chapter 1



Introduction



Bengt Furåker and Kristina Håkansson



Chapter 2



Theoretical and Conceptual Considerations on Work Orientations



Bengt Furåker



Chapter 3



Declining Work Centrality among Millennials – Myth or Reality?



Tómas Bjarnason and Kristina Håkansson



Chapter 4



Work as a calling: Existential Dimensions of Individuals’ Work Orientations



Mattias Bengtsson and Marita Flisbäck



Chapter 5



Work Attitudes, Employment and Work Mobilization: A Comparison of Anglo-Saxon and Nordic Countries, 2005 and 2015



Bengt Furåker



Chapter 6



Organizational Commitment: Cross-national Differences and Work-related Factors



Bengt Furåker and Kristina Håkansson



Chapter 7



Commitment in Organisations Using Temporary Agency Workers



Kristina Håkansson and Tommy Isidorsson



Chapter 8



‘There is No Future for Us Soldiers’: Sensing Dignity and Alienation in the Cabin



Ann Bergman and Jan Ch. Karlsson



Chapter 9



Young Workers’ Job Satisfaction in Europe



Belgin Okay-Somerville, Dora Scholarios and Edward Sosu



Chapter 10



Matching Work Values with Job Qualities for Job Satisfaction: A Comparison of 24 OECD Countries in 2015



Tomas Berglund and Ingrid Esser



List of Contributors



Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 453 g
Themenwelt Wirtschaft Betriebswirtschaft / Management Personalwesen
Wirtschaft Betriebswirtschaft / Management Planung / Organisation
Wirtschaft Volkswirtschaftslehre Makroökonomie
ISBN-10 0-367-78534-X / 036778534X
ISBN-13 978-0-367-78534-5 / 9780367785345
Zustand Neuware
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