What Is Idiosyncratic?

Idiosyncratic deals (Ideals) are job design as a process in which employees and individual managers jointly negotiate the types of tasks employees complete at work. I-deals serve the interests of both employers and employees. Personalized work arrangements of a nonstandard nature that employees and their employers negotiate for mutual benefit. Even though i-deals can be an effective tool for employers to motivate individual workers (i-dealers), they always have a risk to demotivate coworkers by raising the problems of legitimacy and injustice due to differential treatment (Hornung, Rousseau & Glaser, 2008). The relationship between idiosyncratic deals and effective organizational commitment was stronger for those managers who had low core self-evaluations.

Reference:
M., & Kim, T. (2004).Idiosyncratic deals: How negotiating their own employment conditions affects workers’ relationships with an employer. Unpublished manuscript, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA.

Hornung, S., Rousseau, D. M., & Glaser, J. (2008). Creating flexible work arrangements through idiosyncratic deals. Journal of Applied Psychology, 93,