"In Asian societies, work and family issues are only recently beginning to gain attention. The pressure of rapid social change and increasing global competition is compounded by the long hours work culture, especially in the Pan-Confucian societies such as Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan,...

The psychological contract is considered a critical construct in organizational behavior literature because it informs employee emotions, attitudes, and behaviors in the workplace. Although the psychological contract has been explored extensively over the last 50 years, numerous theoretical,...

Mergers & acquisitions in practice : a state-of-art and future directions / Sir Cary L. Cooper, Shlomo Y. Tarba, Riikka M. Sarala, and Mohammad F. Ahammad -- Motives for european mergers and acquisitions : analysis of pre-merger press announcements and post-merger interviews / Agyenim Boateng,...

An economic recession can affect the aggregate well-being of a population. This highly regarded and timely book shows a significant increase in the mean levels of distress and dissatisfaction in the work place in recent years. -- In particular, increasing job demands, intrinsic job insecurity...

pt. I. Negotiating work-life balance at the individual- and familial-level : the Asian perspective -- pt. II. Negotiating work-life balance at the organizational- and societal-level : the Asian perspective -- pt. III. Negotiating work-life balance : the cross-cultural perspective.