Description
Book SynopsisIdiosyncratic deals (I-deals) are individualized work agreements negotiated between employee and employer. Examples include working from home, shortened work days and/or weeks, and taking on responsibilities not enumerated in the job description. I-deals fulfil unique employee needs that lay outside the employer’s standard offerings, and engender a wide range of positive outcomes for both parties, such as employee well-being, work-life balance, career development, and enhanced job performance and citizenship behaviors. I-deals have the potential to be a strategic HR device for addressing the changing needs and preferences of employees, employers, and the wider society in the post-pandemic era.
This new collection provides a holistic, integrated and interdisciplinary overview of i-deals from leading scholars in the area. In addressing topics such as the sociological impact of i-deals, issues of power, privilege and fairness, and HR differentiation, this volume examines i-deals at the individual, team, organizational, and societal levels. The book will be useful to scholars and practitioners alike by offering a nuanced understanding of i-deals in workgroup settings, extending research on this relevant topic, and offering managerial prescriptions for institutionalizing i-deals as a global strategic human resource management device.
Table of ContentsChapter 1. Requesting and Obtaining Development I-deals: A Career-based Perspective (Sylvie Guerrero, Kathleen Bentein). - Chapter 2. Does What Happen at Work, Stay at Work? Flexibility I-deals and Employee Lives Outside of the Workplace (Mine Afacan Findikli, Mireia Las Heras, Yasin Rofcanin, Can Ererdi). - Chapter 3. I-deal or No I-deal? Lessons for Managers from Economic Theory (Priyanka Sharma, Smriti Anand, Liad Wagman, Pouya Haddadian Nekah). - Chapter 4. Servant or Sinister? A Process Model of Follower Appraisal of Leader-Initiated I-deals (Jeremy D. Meuser, Xiaoyun (Aarn) Cao). - Chapter 5. Idiosyncratic Deals in Workgroups: Social Comparisons and Organizational Justice Perspectives in a Lifecycle Framework (Prajya Vidyarthi, Franziska M. Renz, Sarah J. Villanueva, Smriti Anand). - Chapter 6. Idiosyncratic Deals and Individualization of Human Resource Management Practices: The Growth of HR differentiation (Yasin Rofcanin, Mine Afacan Findikli, Mireia Las Heras, Can Ererdi). - Chapter 7. I-deals as a Human Resource Initiative: Exciting Innovation or Passing Fad? (Arup Varma, Chun-Hsiao Wang, Hyun Mi Park, Parth Patel). - Chapter 8. A Workplace Dignity Perspective on Idiosyncratic Deals at Work (P. Matthijs Bal). - Chapter 9. The Dark Side of Individualization at Work: Idiosyncratic Deal Exploitation and the Creation of Elite Workers (Farooq Mughal, Siqi Wang, Aneesa Zafar). - Chapter 10. I-deals: Not Ideal for Employee Diversity? (Sanjeewa Perera, Yiqiong Li). - Chapter 11. I-deals and Employee Well-being: Examining I-deals from JD-R Perspective (Arnold Bakker, Can Ererdi). - Chapter 12. I-Deals in Context: A Summary and Critical Review of I-Deals Literature around the Globe (S. Arzu Wasti, Nevra Cem Ersoy, Berrin Erdogan). - Chapter 13. I-deals and the Future of Work: A Research Agenda for the Post-Pandemic Age (Smriti Anand, Yasin Rofcanin)
