As flexibility has become a sine qua non of the contemporary workplace, we performed a
critical review of its different uses and understandings in business and management …

Authoritatively and expertly written, the new seventh edition of Bratton and Gold's Human
Resource Management builds upon the enduring strengths of this renowned book …

As demographic changes impact the workplace, governments, organizations, and workers
are looking for ways to sustain optimal working lives at higher ages. Workplace flexibility has …

Since the early 1980s, a vast number of jobs have been created in the affluent economies of
the industrialized world. Many workers are doing more skilled and fulfilling jobs, and getting …

It is hypothesized that technological and organizational changes are an important source of
work intensification, and supportive evidence is found using establishment data for Britain in …

The questions of citizenship, democracy, and multiculturalism are at the heart of the
discussion worldwide on educational reform, deeply affecting the academic discourse and …

This paper presents evidence on trends in work pressure in late twentieth‐century Britain.
The main findings are:(1) Average hours of work levelled off at the start of the 1980s …

Across many European countries, the 1990s have witnessed an intensification of labour
effort. Using data from The European Survey on Working Conditions (ESWCs), we find that …

Over the past decade, several leading US scholars have advanced a new industrial
relations paradigm, according to which “high performance” work and human resource …

We are facing an epidemic of work stress. But why should problems at work which
previously led to industrial disputes and political activity now be experienced as a cause of …