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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813173203321

Autore

Wellin Michael

Titolo

Managing the psychological contract : using the personal deal to increase business performance / / Michael Wellin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Aldershot, England ; ; Burlington, VT, : Gower, c2007

ISBN

1-315-59366-1

1-317-10135-9

1-317-10134-0

1-281-20796-9

9786611207960

0-7546-8189-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (261 p.)

Disciplina

658.3/14

Soggetti

Personnel management

Performance technology

Organizational behavior

Psychology, Industrial

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction and why the psychological contract matters -- Current use of the psychological contract -- Viewing the psychological contract as a personal deal -- Making and breaking personal deals -- The personal deal process -- Types of personal deal -- How three companies use the psychological contract -- Using the personal deal to improve leadership effectiveness -- Using the personal deal to change organisation culture -- How human resources practitioners manage personal deals -- How to shape your personal deals -- Behavioural view of the personal deal.

Sommario/riassunto

This is the first book which shows how the psychological contract can be used in practice. Michael Wellin reinterprets the psychological contract as something very tangible that exists between people at work and indicates how it can be used to increase business performance, improve employee commitment, and enable employees to realise their



potential. Throughout the book, the author combines the latest organisation behaviour research findings, including those on the psychological contract, with his own and colleagues' experiences, to provide an important and extremely readable book for human re