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Psychological contract profiles among permanent and temporary agency workers
2016
Purpose– Based on the psychological contract (PC) theory, the purpose of this paper is to identify PC profiles, differentiating between permanent and temporary agency workers (TAW). Moreover, the authors analyzed whether different profiles presented different levels of work engagement.Design/methodology/approach– A cross-sectional survey data analysis of 2,867 workers, of whom 1,046 were TAW, was analyzed using latent profile analyses.Findings– Four PC profiles were identified, which differed quantitatively in terms of the overall dimension levels (i.e. balanced, relational and transactional) for PC (i.e. content and fulfillment). ANCOVAs showed that the relational/balanced dominant and tra…
Pokolenie młodych bez pracy jako wyzwanie dla integracji międzypokoleniowej w Unii Europejskiej
2013
Contemporary demographic trends has been leading to the phenomenon of society's ageing in advanced economies, especially in European Union. This problem is one of the most burning issue nowadays and makes a great challenge to the future stability and development of the whole society. The idea of intergenerational integration provides a kind of solution. Unfortunately, because of the economic crisis, the intergenerational contract (which set the rules of aforementioned partnership) is no longer fair. There is a progressive divergence among generations, and the youth is the most affected group. This problem generates conflict between the disillusioned youth and other generations which has a n…
Zero hours contracts: hacia la flexibilidad absoluta del trabajo en la era digital
2018
El objetivo del artículo es analizar los zero hours contracts en el Reino Unido. Son contratos donde el empleador no garantiza un mínimo de trabajo y el que ofrece su fuerza de trabajo puede rechazarlo. Se han extendido para todo tipo de profesiones no configuradas originalmente como freelance. Partiendo del tratamiento legal que es muy limitado, se analiza la calificación contractual de los trabajadores en contratos de cero horas, cuyas categorías en el mundo anglosajón no tienen una correspondencia exacta con el trabajo por cuenta ajena o por cuenta propia de nuestro sistema. Como la fórmula más absoluta de trabajo a demanda son ampliamente utilizados por empresas tradicionales y en empre…
La mesure de l'efficacité scolaire par la méthode de l'enveloppe : test des filières alternatives de recrutement des enseignants dans le cadre du pro…
2009
Data envelopment and school effectiveness: contract teachers' efficiency compared to civil servants in the Education for all process) In the context of EFA process, countries, in general the most depressed LDC, both constrained by scarcity of funding and urgency for expanding school access have set up new tracks for teacher recruitment on annually renewable contracts. Those teachers are often not professionally trained in regards with traditional pedagogical curricula. They receive much lower salaries than regular civil service teachers. This has been a controversial policy, but there is very limited evidence on the effectiveness or failure of contract teachers in improving student learning…
Three existence theorems for weak contractions of Matkowski type
2010
We prove three generalizations of Matkowski’s fixed point theorems for weakly contractions.