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Nonstandard Work Arrangements: Meaning, Evidence, and Theoretical Perspectives

Nonstandard Work Arrangements: Meaning, Evidence, and Theoretical Perspectives

Nonstandard work arrangements: Meaning, evidence, and theoretical perspectives

In the introduction to their study of organizational identification among contract workers in the information technology field, George and Chattopadhyay (2005) noted that ‘much of the theoretical and empirical work on organizational identification has either implicitly or explicitly focused on full-time employees, employed by and work within a single organization’ (p. 50). This concern, albeit correct, is neither new nor limited to the study of organizational identification. In fact, over the past two decades attention has been repeatedly called to the changing nature of the employment contract and the relationship between organizations and workers (e.g., Beard and Edwards, 1995; Connelly and Coyle-Shapiro et al., 2004; Gallagher, 2004). Most notably there ...

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