Abigail Marks

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the impact of employer flexibility to work-life issues and negative spillover from work to non-work life on the attitudes of software developers and found that even within this industry, where employees are relatively individualistic in orientation, highly marketable and unlikely to show attachment to a single organisation, mutual gains for employee and employer can be attained by an accommodating approach to nonwork commitments which may lead to greater organisational attachment.

TL;DR: In this paper, the psychological contract can be reconceptualized as a construct with multiple foci, and an argument for examining psychological contracts with importance placed on work groups is made.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that interface tensions between the employment relationship, the labour process and organizational governance are inextricably linked to the outcomes of partnership initiatives and argue that while there are positive outcomes to more integrated approaches to partnership, a range of industrial relations issues, notably the ambivalent position of shop-stewards, remains problematic.

Abstract: This paper eradicates some of the myths of software workers as prototypes of the knowledge worker. Based on qualitative and quantitative research conducted in five Information Technology (IT) organisations, it examines how the factors of education, skill level and work role determine the opportunities presented to these workers, and how they are associated with differing levels of organisational identity. At the same time, the data reveal a consistently high professional identity, regardless of work role and qualifications.