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Fragmenting Work
Blurring Organizational Boundaries and Disordering Hierarchies
Edited by Mick Marchington, Damian Grimshaw, Jill Rubery, and Hugh Willmott
334 pages
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Boxes, Tables, and Figures
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234x156mm
978-0-19-926224-3
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Paperback
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16 September 2004
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- Moves beyond the boundaries of single-employer organizations to analyze the contemporary reality for many organizations today
- Deals with public-private partnerships, franchises, and agency employees
- Draws on rich and detailed case studies and interviews
- Explores issues of inter-organizational relationships and coordination
This major new book examines the way in which employment is managed across organizational boundaries. It analyses how public-private partnerships, franchises, agencies, and other forms of inter-firm contractual relations impact on work and employment and the experiences of those working in these increasingly significant forms of organization. It draws upon research undertaken in eight separate networks comprising over 50 organizations to explore the fragmenting effects of contemporary changes in the organization of work and employment relationships.
It considers the consequences of increased reliance upon
inter-organizational mechanisms for producing goods and especially for delivering services. It argues that established analyses continue to rely too heavily upon a model of the single employing organization whereas today the situation is often more complex and confused. Public-private `partnerships' are one high profile example of this phenomenon but private enterprises are also developing new relations with their clients and customers that impinge upon the nature of the employment relationship. Established hierarchical forms are becoming disordered, with consequences for career patterns, training and skills, pay structures, disciplinary practice, worker voice, and the gendered division of labour.
The findings of the study raise questions about the governance of
such complex organizational forms, the appropriateness of current institutions for addressing this complexity, and the challenge of harnessing employee commitment in circumstances where human resource practices are shaped by organizations other than the legal employer. Using an analytical schema of three dimensions (institutional, organizational, employment) and four themes (power, risk, identity, trust), the authors adopt an inter-disciplinary perspective to address these complex and critically important practical, policy, and theoretical concerns.
Fragmenting Work will be vital reading for all those wishing to understand the contemporary realities of work and employment.
Readership:
Academics, researchers, graduate and advanced undergraduate students of Business and Management, Organization Studies, and Work and Employment; Policymakers in Government, Trade Unions, and Professional Associations concerned with employment issues; HRM professionals.
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Edited by Mick Marchington, Professor of Human Resource Management, the Manchester School of Management, UMIST, Damian Grimshaw, Senior Lecturer in Management, the Manchester School of Management, UMIST, Jill Rubery, Professor of Comparative Employment Systems, the Manchester School of Management, UMIST, and Hugh Willmott, Diageo Professor of Management Studies, the Judge Institute of Management Studies, University of Cambridge Contributors:
Marilyn Carroll, Research Associate in the European Work and Employment Research Centre, University of Manchester,
Fang Lee Cooke, Lecturer
in Employment Studies, University of Manchester,
Jill Earnshaw, Senior Lecturer in Employment Law, University of Manchester,
Damian Grimshaw, Senior Lecturer in Employment Studies, University of Manchester,
Irena Grugulis, Professor of Employment Studies, Bradford University,
John Hassard, Professor of Organizational Analysis, University of Manchester,
Gail Hebson, Research Associate in the European Work and Employment Research Centre, University of Manchester,
Mick Marchington, Professor of Human Resource Management, University of Manchester,
Jill Rubery, Professor of Comparative Employment Systems, University of Manchester,
Steven Vincent, Lecturer in Human Resource Management and Industrial
Relations, University of Leeds,
Hugh Willmott, Diageo Professor of Management Studies, University of Cambridge
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1: Damian Grimshaw, Mick Marchington, Jill Rubery, and Hugh Willmott: Introduction: Fragmenting Work Across Organizational Boundaries
2: Damian Grimshaw, Hugh Willmott and Jill Rubery: Inter-Organizational Networks: Trust, Power, and the Employment Relationship
3: Jill Rubery, Jill Earnshaw, and Mick Marchington: Blurring the Boundaries to the Employment Relationship: From Single to Multi-Employer Relationships
4: Marilyn Carroll, Steven Vincent, John Hassard, and Fang Lee Cooke: The Strategic Management of Contracting in the Private Sector
5: Damian Grimshaw and Gail Hebson: Public-Private Contracting: Performance, Power, and Change at Work
6: Mick Marchington, Steven Vincent, and Fang Lee Cooke: The Role of Boundary-Spanning Agents in Inter-Organizational Contracting
7: Jill Rubery and Jill Earnshaw: Employment Policy and Practice: Crossing Borders and Disordering Hierarchies
8: Fang Lee Cooke, Gail Hebson, and Marilyn Carroll: Commitment and Identity Across Organizational Boundaries
9: Irena Grugulis and Steven Vincent: Changing Boundaries, Shaping Skills: The Fragmented Organizational Form and Employee Skills
10: Gail Hebson and Irena Grugulis: Gender and New Organizational Forms
11: Mick Marchington, Jill Rubery, and Fang Lee Cooke: Prospects for Worker Voice Across Organizational Boundaries
12: Damian Grimshaw, Mick Marchington, Jill Rubery, and Hugh Willmott: Conclusion: Redrawing Boundaries: Reflections on Practice and Policy
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