Psychological Contract Analysis
Using your placement, you are required to critically analyse the nature of the psychological contract within the workplace and use 2-3 other themes and topics from the module to demonstrate the links between different concepts and issues.
This essay intends to examine the psychological contract and its use at Delcam Plc. It is also going to look in depth at the way in which Delcam approaches the work-life balance, the relationship between managing the work-life balance and the psychological contract and finally the outcomes of satisfying the work-life balance. Delcam is a CADCAM software supplier selling mainly in to the manufacturing industry so the focus of this essay is going to be on the employees at Delcam with an engineering background …show more content…
The majority of academic work that has been written looks at the work-life balance with a feminine perspective or focuses primarily on the increase of females that have entered the workforce. Although Marchington and Wilkinson (2008: 106) that issues concerning work-life are not limited to the female group alone, they do add that issues concerning the subject are categorised as a problem for women. Delcam presents an opposing view as the men that work there are all very much concerned with management of the work-life balance, this is something that features in their psychological contracts and is of much importance to them.
Delcam has already been identified as a primarily male workforce and in the eyes of their employees they seem to be managing the work-life balance, potentially through the psychological contract. Delcam do this so well that employees not only remain with the company for a number of years but, if employees do leave, it has been seen that they are very likely to return within a matter of years. The Department for Trade and Industry (DTI) divide work-life balance practices into the following five categories:
1. Flexibility in the arrangement of
This essay intends to examine the psychological contract and its use at Delcam Plc. It is also going to look in depth at the way in which Delcam approaches the work-life balance, the relationship between managing the work-life balance and the psychological contract and finally the outcomes of satisfying the work-life balance. Delcam is a CADCAM software supplier selling mainly in to the manufacturing industry so the focus of this essay is going to be on the employees at Delcam with an engineering background …show more content…
The majority of academic work that has been written looks at the work-life balance with a feminine perspective or focuses primarily on the increase of females that have entered the workforce. Although Marchington and Wilkinson (2008: 106) that issues concerning work-life are not limited to the female group alone, they do add that issues concerning the subject are categorised as a problem for women. Delcam presents an opposing view as the men that work there are all very much concerned with management of the work-life balance, this is something that features in their psychological contracts and is of much importance to them.
Delcam has already been identified as a primarily male workforce and in the eyes of their employees they seem to be managing the work-life balance, potentially through the psychological contract. Delcam do this so well that employees not only remain with the company for a number of years but, if employees do leave, it has been seen that they are very likely to return within a matter of years. The Department for Trade and Industry (DTI) divide work-life balance practices into the following five categories:
1. Flexibility in the arrangement of