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Employment and Working Conditions of Selected Types of Platform Work [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Platform work is a form of employment that uses an online platform to match the supply of and demand for paid labour. In Europe, platform work is still small in scale but is rapidly developing.
de Groen, Willem Pieter   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Post-automation: report from an international workshop [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
The purpose of this report is to share lessons from an international research workshop dedicated to post- automation. Twenty-seven researchers from eleven different countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe, met at the Science Policy Research ...
Fressoli, Mariano   +3 more
core  

Managers' Decisions About Informal Accommodation Requests by Employees With and Without Disabilities

open access: yesHuman Resource Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Although formal accommodations are required by law across many jurisdictions, many employees seek informal adjustments to their work conditions. These individualized work arrangements are not rooted in legal compliance but are instead provided at managers' discretion.
Silvia Bonaccio   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Redefining \u27Employee\u27 in the Gig Economy: Shielding Workers from the Uber Model [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Increasingly, companies in the gig-economy utilize independent contractors, rather than traditional employees, as a means to cut costs and decrease employment related liability.
Steinberger, Ben Z.
core   +1 more source

Love of the Job: What It Is, How to Measure It, and Why It Matters for Work Outcomes

open access: yesHuman Resource Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Employee retention, motivation, performance, and well‐being remain enduring priorities in human resource management, yet existing constructs such as engagement, commitment, and satisfaction do not fully capture the depth of emotional attachment that some employees feel towards their jobs.
Michelle Inness   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Embracing Complexity in HRM Research: A Call for System and Process Perspectives

open access: yesHuman Resource Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Human resource management (HRM) is inherently complex. It involves systems of principles, practices, and activities operating at individual, group, organizational, and macro levels, which are interlinked through complex processes. Yet, empirical research has not kept pace with this conceptual richness.
Rebecca Hewett, Madleen Meier‐Barthold
wiley   +1 more source

Examining the Gender Dynamics in the Gig Economy: A Systematic Literature Review [PDF]

open access: yesColombo Business Journal
The changing employment scenario has given rise to new employment models like the Gig Economy. Though autonomy and flexibility are key factors that attract women to this employment, their representation is low.
J. S. Bhagavathi
doaj   +1 more source

Social Class Discrimination and Academic Success: A Person‐Centered Approach Among Adolescents Disadvantaged in Social Class

open access: yesJournal of Adolescence, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Prior research indicates that social class is strongly associated with academic outcomes such as GPA. However, little work explores the role that social discrimination plays in this relation. This study examined the link between social class discrimination and academic outcomes among high school students.
Christine R. Starr   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Incentivizing the Dynamic Workforce: Learning Contracts in the Gig-Economy

open access: yes, 2018
In principal-agent models, a principal offers a contract to an agent to perform a certain task. The agent exerts a level of effort that maximizes her utility.
Cohen, Alon   +2 more
core  

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