IRE240H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Inequality Of Bargaining Power, Job Satisfaction, Microfoundations
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Frameworks of interconnected values, beliefs, and assumptions upon which individuals draw in order to assess the functioning and legitimacy of established institutional arrangements and the desirability of reforms (godard, 1992 c. f. Competing perspectives on the employment relationship that arise from individuals" theories about how the world works and people behave. Guide employers, managers, employees, scholars, policymakers, lobbyists, and activists in the identification and evaluation of work/employment problems, and the proposed solutions to those problems. These perspectives precede and predict support for and/or opposition to different approaches to governance of work and the employment relationship, and different employment relations systems within organizations. Theorize that managers" frames shape their desired (sub)organizational employment relations system. But workers have frames and agency, too. So might have mismatched frames in an organization. Map these frames to expected er patterns and outcomes. Neoliberal-egoism: er as market-based transaction between consenting, self- interested agents.