Human Resource Management
Discuss the key factors affecting change in the Psychological Contract.
Name : Flora
Tutor：Jonathan Culbert
06/08/2013
Along with the flourishing development of Human Resource Management, increasingly more enterprises have attached great importance to the relationship between employees and employers, which is, put into professional terms, psychological contract. This concept was first introduced by Argyris in 1960 and has experienced several changes over the subsequent 50 years. However, what are the key factors that affect changes in the psychological contract? Personally, the fierce competition caused by globalisation is more important than the other two factors like higher education level and the feminization in workplace, in terms of causing changes in psychological contract. All of these three factors will be introduced and explained in each paragraph according to the above order. Then there would be a comparison of these factors based on importance.
Initially, globalisation plays a significant role in affecting the changes in psychological contract. As a driving force of economic development, globalisation has bring prosperity to some countries. But it also raises the pressure of competition and imposes heavy burden of unemployment on employees. To pursue more profits, enterprises may lay off some staff under the rat race, and they may have higher expectation on employees. Specifically, employers prefer to recruit those who do not simply do what companies require them to do, but have the consciousness and ability to explore new solutions to the task and create value for their companies. Besides, employers hire more short-term staff than before, like Cooper(2002) points out “most
organisations will have only a small core
Name : Flora
Tutor：Jonathan Culbert
06/08/2013
Along with the flourishing development of Human Resource Management, increasingly more enterprises have attached great importance to the relationship between employees and employers, which is, put into professional terms, psychological contract. This concept was first introduced by Argyris in 1960 and has experienced several changes over the subsequent 50 years. However, what are the key factors that affect changes in the psychological contract? Personally, the fierce competition caused by globalisation is more important than the other two factors like higher education level and the feminization in workplace, in terms of causing changes in psychological contract. All of these three factors will be introduced and explained in each paragraph according to the above order. Then there would be a comparison of these factors based on importance.
Initially, globalisation plays a significant role in affecting the changes in psychological contract. As a driving force of economic development, globalisation has bring prosperity to some countries. But it also raises the pressure of competition and imposes heavy burden of unemployment on employees. To pursue more profits, enterprises may lay off some staff under the rat race, and they may have higher expectation on employees. Specifically, employers prefer to recruit those who do not simply do what companies require them to do, but have the consciousness and ability to explore new solutions to the task and create value for their companies. Besides, employers hire more short-term staff than before, like Cooper(2002) points out “most
organisations will have only a small core
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