Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the scientific standing of the concept of free will and its role and functioning in social and psychological contracts. It updates Rousseau (2012). Design/methodology/approach This is a conceptual paper. Findings Social structures that support the...

The relationship between workers and firms are changing worldwide. Nowhere is this more evident than in the psychological contracts of employment. This book combines the cross-national perspectives of organizational scholars from thirteen countries to examine how societies differ in the nature...

1. Introduction to idiosyncratic deals between employees and organizations : conceptual issues, applications, and the role of coworkers / Matthijs Bal and Denise M. Rousseau -- 3. Individualization of work arrangements : a contextualized perspective on the rise and use of i-deals / Matthijs Bal...

Organizational social practices (e.g., corporate social responsibility and corporate citizenship practices), as well as their costs and the benefits companies accrue from undertaking them, have been widely described and analyzed in the business and society literature. However, the debate over...

Although team composition as an antecedent to team performance has been studied extensively, team composition as a dependent variable has been relatively neglected. Recent studies on team member selection assume that a group or an organization is conducting the process and propose elaborate...