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Book SynopsisThis timely book explores the psychological repercussions of Brexit in the workplace. Illustrating the mental and emotional impact of the Brexit process, interdisciplinary chapters demonstrate its effect on the wellbeing of workers and its implications for the welfare of the workforce in the future.
Bringing together international contributors from a range of disciplines, this topical book focuses on key areas of workplace functioning, including higher education institutions, corporate social responsibility and the emerging experiences of businesses, migrant workers and politicians. The major psychological, political and economic implications for employers, employees and policy-makers are considered, and the importance after Brexit of actions that preserve and build on progress already achieved in the UK workplace are highlighted.
Brexit in the Workplace will appeal to scholars and students of politics, psychology and business, as well as business leaders and policy-makers wishing to gain valuable insights into the range of issues facing the workforce in the current atmosphere of political change and uncertainty around Brexit.
Table of ContentsContents: Preface x 1 A psychology of Brexit 1 Ashley Weinberg 2 Brexit bother: a story of uncertainty and (possibly) resilience 17 Richard Plenty and Terri Morrissey 3 ‘Should we exit before Brexit?’ Experiences and future plans of Hungarian workers in post-Referendum Britain 37 Ivett Bernadett Racz 4 The econometrics of Brexit: science or a means of expressing confirmation bias? 58 Imad A. Moosa 5 The impact of Brexit on health and wellbeing in the workplace: what we know so far 80 Christian van Stolk 6 Brexit and Corporate Social Responsibility: a controversial case 96 Alexander-Stamatios Antoniou and Nikos Drosos 7 Brexit ‘at work’ in Parliament 112 Richard Kwiatkowski 8 The impact of Brexit on higher education institutions and EU students 129 Nikos Drosos and Alexander-Stamatios Antoniou 9 A psychology of survival? 142 Ashley Weinberg Index 158
