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Lifestyles as Social Contracts between Workers and Organizations

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  • Axel Haunschild

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A more individualized world of work reduces neither the relevance of social institutions for social actors nor minimizes the role of social structure in studies on work, employment, and organization. I seek to broaden the current individualistic concepts of employment contracts by stressing the relevance of milieu and lifestyle studies for understanding the relationship between workers and organizations. Examples from the “creative industries” are used to illustrate the role of lifestyle for the constitution of workers’ and organizations’ expectations for work arrangements and the use of labor. In conclusion, I conceptualize co-evolving patterns of workers’ preferences and organizations’ (human resource) management practices as social contracts between workers and organizations.

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  • Axel Haunschild, 2011. "Lifestyles as Social Contracts between Workers and Organizations," Schmalenbach Business Review (sbr), LMU Munich School of Management, vol. 63(4), pages 361-375, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:sbr:abstra:v:63:y:2011:i:4:p:361-375
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    Cited by:

    1. Samuel Adams & Fanny Adams Quagrainie & Edem Kwame Mensah Klobodu, 2014. "Psychological contract formation: The influence of demographic factors," International Area Studies Review, Center for International Area Studies, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, vol. 17(3), pages 279-294, September.
    2. Elena N. Gasiukova & Sergey A. Korotaev, 2017. "Precariousness in Russia: Attitudes, Work and Life Experience of Young Adults with Higher Education," HSE Working papers WP BRP 73/SOC/2017, National Research University Higher School of Economics.

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    Keywords

    Contract Theory; Creative Industries; Employment Systems; Lifestyles; Psychological Contract; Theatre; VFX;
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    JEL classification:

    • J29 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Other
    • J41 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Particular Labor Markets - - - Labor Contracts
    • J44 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Particular Labor Markets - - - Professional Labor Markets and Occupations
    • M54 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Personnel Economics - - - Labor Management
    • Z11 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics - - - Economics of the Arts and Literature
    • Z13 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics - - - Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification

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