Boundaryless Careers and Occupational Wellbeing

✍ Scribed by Michela Cortini, Giancarlo Tanucci, Estelle Morin

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 335
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book presents a topical consideration of the challenges posed by the transition to more temporary employment arrangements as we move from an industrial to a knowledge-based economy.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Half Title......Page 2
Title Page......Page 4
Copyright Page......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
List of Tables......Page 9
List of Figures......Page 12
List of Graphs......Page 13
Notes on Contributors......Page 14
Introduction......Page 22
Part I New Career Models......Page 26
1 The Protean and Boundaryless Career in Italy: Game on?......Page 28
2 The Timing of Adjustment Strategies during Work Role Transition: A Longitudinal Comparison between Newcomers and Job Changers......Page 38
3 A Newcomer’s Career between Community and Identity......Page 51
4 Obscure Future? A Pilot Study on University Students’ Career Expectations......Page 63
Part II Occupational Well-being......Page 76
5 What Makes Them Happy? Comparing Working and Non-Working Men and Women in Typical and Atypical Occupations......Page 78
6 Job Resources and Exhaustion at Work: The Mediating Role of Global Meaning......Page 108
7 Risk Perception and Safety Standards Violation: Psychosocial Antecedents of Injury in a Metalworking Factory......Page 121
8 Hostile Behaviors in the Workplace: Consequences and Reactions of the Victims......Page 133
9 Occupational Stress and Job Insecurity May Reduce the Immune NK Response in Men Working in a University......Page 142
10 The Role of Empathy in Health Professions: A Study of Professional and Volunteer Operators......Page 153
11 Work Experience As a Discursive Resource for Subjective Well-being......Page 162
12 Models of Workers’ Involvement in Societas Europaea’s Governance......Page 179
Part III Atypical Workers......Page 190
13 Atypical Workers and Burnout: Preliminary Research......Page 192
14 Work Identity, Well-being and Time Perspective of Typical and Atypical Young Workers......Page 202
15 Atypical Employment: An Explorative Study of the Motivations and Attitudes of Atypical Workers......Page 212
16 Job Satisfaction and Values: A Comparison between Non-traditional Workers and Traditional Workers......Page 224
Part IV Work–Life Balance......Page 238
17 Perceived Utility of Welfare Initiatives in an Italian Multinational Corporation......Page 240
18 The Role of Work–Family Spillover in Psychological Well-being and Psychological Discomfort at Work......Page 251
19 The Impact of Law 53/2000 (Regulation of Parental Leave) on Fathers: A Good Law Disregarded in Daily Life......Page 262
20 Female Participation to Labor Markets and the Role of Policy Measures in Local Performance......Page 277
21 Reconciling Work and Family Life: Collective Bargaining in the Local Public Services Sector......Page 291
Part V Organizational Efficiency......Page 298
22 Promoting Psychological Health and Performance in an Educational Work Context: How the Satisfaction of Three Basic Psychological Needs Can Help Achieve Both......Page 300
23 A Study of Willingness to Mentor: Demographic Differences, Determinants and the Moderating Effect of Organizational Usefulness......Page 310
24 The Right Place for the Right Man......Page 322
Index......Page 332