Examining White-collar Downsizing as a Cause of Change in the Psychological Contract: Some UK Evidence
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- Professor Richard Harris
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| Author(s) | | Harris RID; Beaumont PB |
| Publication type | | Article |
| Journal | | Employee Relations |
| Year | | 2003 |
| Volume | | 24 |
| Issue | | 4 |
| Pages | | 378-388 |
| ISSN (print) | | 0142-5455 |
| ISSN (electronic) | | 1758-7069 |
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| The “old” psychological contract, with its emphasis on employment security, has been held to have been violated because of extensive downsizing among white-collar employees from the late 1980s and early 1990s. This proposition is tested here using multivariate analysis based on a large-scale, nationally representative dataset for five leading industries in the UK manufacturing sector for the years 1978-1995. The results obtained provide little real support for this hypothesis, thus casting doubt on its role in having produced a major change in the psychological contract. |
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| Publisher | | Emerald Group Publishing Ltd. |
| URL | | http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/01425450210435527 |
| DOI | | 10.1108/01425450210435527 |
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