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Full-time Workers (full-time + worker)
Selected AbstractsMore or Less Unequal?GENDER, WORK & ORGANISATION, Issue 1 2007Evidence on the Pay of Men, Women from the British Birth Cohort Studies Gender pay differences are not merely a problem for women returning to work and part-time employees, but also for those in full-time, continuous careers. In data from cohort studies, the gender wage gap for full-time workers in their early thirties fell between 1978 and 2000. This equalization reflects improvements in women's education and experience rather more than a move towards equal treatment. Indeed, had the typical woman full-timer in 2000 been paid at men's rates she would have actually received higher pay than the typical man. Within one cohort, passing from age 33 to 42, gender inequality increased. This was partly due to differences in the qualifications and experience of the women in employment at those points, but unequal treatment also rose among women employed full time at both ages. [source] Absolute and Relative Consumption of Married U.S. Households in 1960 and 1996: The Cleavers Meet the TaylorsJOURNAL OF CONSUMER AFFAIRS, Issue 1 2002MICHAEL L. WALDENArticle first published online: 3 MAR 200 Consumer Expenditure Survey data for 1960 and 1996 are used to examine the real consumption of single-earner and dual-earner households. Both real consumption quantities and budget shares of consumption categories were found to differ by household earner type. However, both real consumption quantities and budget shares of the majority of consumption categories were more similar for singleearner households and dual-earner households with two full-time workers in 1996 than in 1960. Also, the savings rate of all household earner types improved significantly from 1960 to 1996. [source] Work status and organizational citizenship behavior: a field study of restaurant employeesJOURNAL OF ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR, Issue 5 2001Christina L. Stamper This survey-based field study of 257 service employees developed and tested a model of differences in the organizational citizenship behavior of full-time and part-time employees based on social exchange theory. Questionnaire data from matched pairs of employees and their supervisors demonstrated that part-time employees exhibited less helping organizational citizenship behavior than full-time employees, but there was no difference in their voice behavior. We also predicted that both preferred work status (an individual factor) and organizational culture (a contextual factor) would moderate the relationships between work status and citizenship. For helping, results demonstrated that preferred status mattered more to part-time workers than to full-time. For voice, preferred work status was equally important to part-time and full-time workers, such that voice was high only when actual status matched preferred status. Contrary to our expectations, work status made more of a difference in both helping and voice in less bureaucratic organizations. We discuss the implications of work status for social exchange relationships, differences in the social exchange costs and benefits of helping compared to voice, and ramifications of our findings for future research. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] Why Do Part-time Workers Invest Less in Human Capital than Full-timers?LABOUR, Issue 2009Annemarie Nelen We analyse whether lower investments in human capital of part-time workers are due to workers' characteristics or human resource practices of the firm. We focus on investments in both formal training and informal learning. Using the Dutch Life-Long-Learning Survey 2007, we find that part-time workers have different determinants for formal training and informal learning from full-time workers. The latter benefit from firms' human resource practices such as performance interviews, personal development plans, and feedback. Part-time workers can only partly compensate the lack of firm support when they have a high learning motivation and imagination of their future development. [source] Variation in part-time job quality within the nonprofit human service sectorNONPROFIT MANAGEMENT & LEADERSHIP, Issue 4 2009Anna Haley-Lock This article extends the growing literature on the quality of part-time employment to the domain of nonprofit human services, specifically grassroots organizations in which paid work is itself a relatively new reality. It addresses three central questions: How do part-time and full-time workers differ in their personal and household characteristics? How do part-time jobs differ in access to employment benefits from their full-time counterparts; and finally, How does benefits access vary among part-time job titles? These lines of inquiry are examined using data from the populations of nonprofit domestic violence programs and their employees in a large midwestern metropolitan area. Analyses of worker-level data reveal that part-time workers in these settings disproportionately live with children, are in committed relationships, and report a strong preference for employment that facilitates work-life balance; they are also less likely to be primary household wage earners. Analyses at the level of jobs suggest that employment benefits extended to part-time jobs are minimal compared to their full-time equivalents, but there are also striking variations among different part-time titles. The results offer insights into the nature of part-time work in these nonprofit human service settings and potential challenges for effective management. [source] Modalités de travail à temps plein ou partiel et son influence sur les attitudes et comportements au travail: L'effet médiateur de la violation du contrat psychologiqueCANADIAN JOURNAL OF ADMINISTRATIVE SCIENCES, Issue 4 2006Tania Saba Résumé Pour répondre à leurs besoins de flexibilité, employeurs et employés sont plus ouverts au travail à temps partiel. Or, les études rapportent des résultats mitigés quant à son incidence sur les comportements au travail. Le concept du contrat psychologique permet d'identifier la nature de la relation d'emploi et constitue un cadre explicatif intéressant des différences de comportements entre des employés détenant divers statuts d'emploi. Notre étude, basée sur 275 employés, examine les différences d'influence du travail à temps partiel et à temps plein sur l'intention de quitter, l'engagement organisationnel, la satisfaction et la négligence au travail en notant l'effet médiateur de la perception de violation du contrat psychologique. Abstract Employers and employees are open to part-time work as a way to better respond to the need for flexibility. However, research findings comparing the work attitudes of part-time and full-time workers are inconclusive. The concept of the psychological contract makes it possible to identify the nature of the working relationship and constitutes an interesting explanatory framework for the differences in attitudes and behaviors between these two employment statuses. Our study, based on 275 employees, examines differences in influence of part-time and full-time work on the intention to leave, work satisfaction, organizational commitment, and work negligence by noting the mediator effect of the perception of violation of the psychological contract. [source] ,Full-time is a Given Here': Part-time Versus Full-time Job Quality,BRITISH JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT, Issue 2 2009Paula McDonald This study explores full-time workers' understanding of and assumptions about part-time work against six job quality components identified in recent literature. Forty interviews were conducted with employees in a public sector agency in Australia, a study context where part-time work is ostensibly ,good quality' and is typically long term, voluntary, involving secure contracts (i.e. permanent rather than casual) and having predictable hours distributed evenly over the week and year. Despite strong collective bargaining arrangements as well as substantial legal and industrial obligations, the findings revealed some serious concerns for part-time job quality. These concerns included reduced responsibilities and lesser access to high status roles and projects, a lack of access to promotion opportunities, increased work intensity and poor workplace support. The highly gendered, part-time labour market also means that it is women who disproportionately experience this disadvantage. To foster equity, greater attention needs to focus on monitoring and enhancing job quality, regardless of hours worked. [source] | ||||||||||