Call for Papers – Management Revue
Special Issue
Work in Progress – new perspectives on the quality of working life
Rationale for Special Issue and Issue scope:
The European Union aimed „to become the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world, capable of sustainable economic growth with more and better jobs and greater social cohesion“ (Strategic goal for 2010 at the Lisbon European Council, 2000). Time to have a close look at improvements in the quality of working life (QWL), at new developments in the work-relationship and related challenges for the HR management.
QWL is widely investigated in the last decades, but nowadays the issue still deserves attention for two reasons. First, most studies on QWL have not sufficiently accounted for ongoing structural changes in the workplace like the diversification of workforce and the improved flexibility in work arrangements, the increased numbers of dual-earner couples, the ongoing shift towards a knowledge economy, and the increase in alternative work arrangements. Second, the evidence concerning the importance of job quality for employees and organisations alike has prompted several legal and policy reforms to promote QWL but surprisingly little is known about organisational policies that may promote QWL.
The objective of the present special issue is to publish different perspectives on new insights of QWL. We welcome papers from a range of disciplinary and methodological approaches.
Deadline: Full papers by 31.08. 2010
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