The Employment Relationship: Key Challenges for HR addresses the issues of change within employee relationships resulting from the impact of factors such as international competitive pressures, new forms of work organization and changing individual expectations and behaviours.

The new employment contract is analysed from inside and outside organizations and the issues are addressed from both a human resource management and work psychology perspective. This book:

• Provides an overview of new forms of work organization
  
• Looks at the employment relationship from a labour market perspective
  
• Reviews work by psychologists on the changing psychological contract, trust and job security
  
• Reviews the evidence on an increasing individualization of the employment relationship and considers the challenges presented by a war for talent
  
• Considers the ways in which the individual and organization can remain closely linked and engaged with each other
  
• Addresses the need to understand work-life balance issues
  
• Outlines the challenges to the employment relation created by changes in future employee behaviour