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I-Deals: Idiosyncratic Terms in Employment Relationships

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In this article, the authors distinguish functional i-deals from their dysfunctional counterparts and highlight evidence of i-deal in previous organizational research, and outline the implications of these arrangements for research and for managing contemporary employment relationships.
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Idiosyncratic employment arrangements (i-deals) stand to benefit the individual employee as well as his or her employer. However, unless certain conditions apply, coworkers may respond negatively to these arrangements. We distinguish functional i-deals from their dysfunctional counterparts and highlight evidence of i-deals in previous organizational research. We develop propositions specifying both how ideals are formed and how they impact workers and coworkers. Finally, we outline the implications i-deals have for research and for managing contemporary employment relationships.

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The Relationship Between Perceptions of Organizational Politics and Employee Attitudes, Strain, and Behavior: A Meta-Analytic Examination

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Rat Race Redux: Adverse Selection in the Determination of Work Hours in Law Firms

TL;DR: An organizational setting in which professional employees are required to work inefficiently long hours is described, which leads to a rat-race equilibrium in which associates work too many hours.
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I-deals: Idiosyncratic Deals Employees Bargain for Themselves : Idiosyncratic Deals Employees Bargain for Themselves

TL;DR: I-deals: Idiosyncratic Deals Employees Bargain for Themselves challenges traditional notions that standardization is the way to create workplace justice as discussed by the authors, and shows how such individual arrangements can be made fair and acceptable to coworkers, and beneficial to both the employee and the employer.
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Equality as a decision heuristic.

TL;DR: In this paper, the concept of equality or equal division is used as a heuristic that is used to facilitate decision making in situations involving the allocation of goods and bads, where two or more people who must share resources, responsibilities, or liabilities.
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Psychological contracts in employment : Cross-national perspectives

TL;DR: Rousseau and Schalk as discussed by the authors explored the psychological contract theory in the context of cross-national perspectives on psychological contracts and found that diversity, individualism, and association are important factors in the development of psychological contracts.
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I-deals: Idiosyncratic Deals Employees Bargain for Themselves

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors define I-deal types: six plus ways employees Bargain 6. Coworkers: The I-Deal's Most Interested Third Parties 8. Organizational Perspectives on I-deals as a Human Resource Practice 9. Cross-National Factors and Idiosyncratic Deals 10. Learning from I- Deals Notes about the Author Index
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