Precarious professional work : entrepreneurialism, risk and economic compensation in the knowledge economy

• Main Author: Styhre, Alexander
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Subjects: Precarious employment.; Professional employees.; Knowledge economy.; Entrepreneurship.; Capitalism.; Personnel management.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9783319595665; 9783319595658
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

This book examines the new conditions under which professional work, often referred to as "knowledge-intensive work," is organised and how professional groups who have traditionally been granted jurisdictional discretion now have their work routines renegotiated. In the new economic regime...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction: The New World of Precarious Professional Work
• 2. Investor Capitalism and the Decline of the Public Corporation and the Middle Class
• 3. The New Forms of Professional Work: Entrepreneurialism and Precarious Professional Work
• 4. Conducting and Managing Precarious Professional Work: Hard and Soft Human Resource Management Practices
• 5. The Future of Professionalism: How to Preserve and Justify Jurisdictional Discretion in Investor Capitalism.