Employment Contracts and Well-Being Among European Workers

Nele De Cuyper · Kerstin Isaksson

May 2017 · Routledge

About this ebook

Temporary employment contracts are now commonplace in business. However the move towards such employment structures has a significant, and hitherto little understood impact on 'the psychological contract' between employee and organizations. This book is amongst the first to tackle this problem. With detailed research findings from seven countries: Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, the UK and (for a non-European perspective) Israel, it presents an integrated model of the effects of temporary work. The model incorporates key recent trends, including the expansion of non-permanent employment as a persistent form of employment flexibility, the increasing importance of the psychological contract, and the diversity of the European labour market as a result of state legislation. By presenting the results of an overview of the research literature on this contemporary labour market trend this book is of real value to researchers, practitioners and policy makers.

About the author

Nele De Cuyper is PhD-student at the Research Centre for Stress, Health and Well-being, Department of Psychology, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. Kerstin Isaksson is Associate Professor at the Department of Psychology, Stockholm University, Sweden, and a researcher at the National Institute for Working Life, Stockholm, Sweden. Hans De Witte is Associate Professor in Work Psychology at the Research Centre for Stress, Health and Well-being, Department of Psychology, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium.