nowadays, organizations to success in global competition, to provide new and qualified products and services and employment of versatile workforce, in context of new public management, have restructured through reengineering, downsizing, and outsourcing processes. however, these developments have caused changes in psychological contracts, employment relationships and transition from permanent e...

This article explores the relationship between the job characteristics underlying the Goldthorpe model of social class (work monitoring difficulty and human asset specificity) and those underlying theories of technological change (routine and analytical tasks) highlighted as key drivers for growing inequality. Analysis of the 2012 British Skills and Employment Survey demonstrate monitoring diff...

INTRODUCTION There is the tendency in occupational health research of approximating the 'changed world of work' with a sole focus on the intrinsic characteristics of the work task, encompassing the job content and working conditions. This is insufficient to explain the mental health risks associated with contemporary paid work as not only the nature of work tasks have changed but also the terms...

New technologies, sustainability policies, protectionism and consumers preferences are pushing for the reorganisation of automotive cluster. The emergence artificial intelligence (AI) has potential to create disruptive effects in employment systems across world. future deployment broad-spectrum algorithms capable being used wide areas application (e.g., industrial robotics, software data commun...

This article examines the changes to and relations between labor policy and labor legislation in the context of China’s market transition with a focus on the 1994 Labor Law and the 2007 Labor Contract Law. The initial impetus to labor policy change came from the unemployment crisis at the end of the 1970s and the early 1980s. Since then, the state has relaxed its control over labor mobility and...