Fragmenting Work: Blurring Organizational Boundaries and Disordering Hierarchies

. Ed(s): Marchington, Mick; Grimshaw, Damien; Rubery, Jill; Wilmott, Hugh

ISBN 10: 0199262233 / ISBN 13: 9780199262236

Published by OUP Oxford, 2004

About this Item

1. Introduction: Fragmenting Work Across Organizational Boundaries; 2. Inter-Organizational Networks: Trust, Power, and the Employment Relationship; 3. Blurring the Boundaries to the Employment Relationship: From Single to Multi-Employer Relationships; 4. The Strategic Management of Contracting in the Private Sector; 5. Editor(s): Marchington, Mick; Grimshaw, Damien; Rubery, Jill; Wilmott, Hugh. Num Pages: 336 pages, Boxes, Tables, and Figures. BIC Classification: KCFM; KJMV2; KJV; LNH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 165 x 24. Weight in Grams: 648. . 2004. Illustrated. hardcover. . . . .

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Fragmenting Work: Blurring Organizational Boundaries and Disordering Hierarchies
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0199262233
• ISBN 13: 9780199262236
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

This major new book examines the way in which employment is managed across organizational boundaries. It analyses how major public-private partnerships, franchises, agencies and other forms on inter-firm contractual relations impact on work and employment and the experiences of those working in these increasingly significant forms of organization. The book draws on a large and extensive body of research to show how various aspects of employment-pay, security, commitment, training, career development, gender, and worker voice-may vary under the influence of chnaging organizational forms and be shaped by clients and suppliers. It concludes by putting forward a number of areas in which policy might be re-examined.

About the Author

Mick Marchington is Professor of Human Resource Management at the Manchester School of Management, University of Manchester. Damian Grimshaw is a Senior Lecturer in Employment Studies at the Manchester School of Management, University of Manchester, and co-author of Managing Employment: The New Realities of Work (OUP 2002). Jill Rubery is Professor of Comparative Employment Systems at the Manchester School of Management, University of Manchester, and co-author of Managing Employment: The New Realities of Work (OUP 2002) and Employer Strategy and the Labour Market (OUP 1994). Hugh Willmott is Diageo Porfessor of Management Studies at the Judge Institute of Management Studies, University of Cambridge.