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I-Deals

Idiosyncratic Terms in Employment Relationships

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ID23360798
AuthorsDenise M Rousseau (0000-0003-0712-7189, Carnegie Mellon University), Violet T Ho (Nanyang Technological University), Jerald Greenberg (The Ohio State University)
Year2006
Volume31
Issue4
Pages977-994
Publication date2006-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAcademy of Management Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0363-7425 • E-ISSN: 1930-3807
PublisherAcademy of Management (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.5465/amr.2006.22527470
OpenAlexW2132052290
LanguageEN
Citations received70
References cited40

Idiosyncratic employment arrangements (i-deals) stand to benefit the individual employee as well as his or her employer. However, unless certain conditions apply, coworkers may respond negatively to these arrangements. We distinguish functional i-deals from their dysfunctional counterparts and highlight evidence of i-deals in previous organizational research. We develop propositions specifying both how ideals are formed and how they impact workers and coworkers. Finally, we outline the implications i-deals have for research and for managing contemporary employment relationships.

Business · Dysfunctional family · Economics · Employee morale · Human resource management · Management · Organizational Behavior · Political science · Positive economics · Public relations · Sociology · Work (physics) · Employment and Welfare Studies · Industrial relations · Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior · Labor Movements and Unions · Psychology · Social Psychology

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