Job Insecurity: Coping with Jobs at Risk

By Dan Jacobson and Jean F. Hartley

Book Overview

This book, which is concerned with the impact of job insecurity on individuals, organizations and industrial relations, is a major contribution to an increasingly important topic in an era of continued organizational restructuring and change.

The authors explore the personal experiences of job insecurity for individual employees and the variety of ways in which people cope with their feelings of uncertainty and ambiguity. They examine collective behaviour through the impact of job insecurity on union activities and union-management relations. They also explore the relationship between organizational effectiveness and job insecurity, and outline a number of strategies that organizations can adopt to address its potentially d

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803982534
• ISBN13: 9780803982536
• Release Date: February 1991
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"