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Employment Relationships in Dairy Farming - Psychological Contracts Reconsidered

Labour, Employment and Work in New Zealand

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Title Employment Relationships in Dairy Farming - Psychological Contracts Reconsidered
 
Creator Tipples, Rupert
Verwood, Nona
 
Description The essence of psychological contracting (in the contest of employment) is meeting mutual expectations. The common denominator between legal contracting and psychological contracting is that both are designed to express expectations of the self and of the other. Legal expectations lead to outcomes that are observable, measureable and usually quantifiable. Psychological expectations are usually invisible but nonetheless very real.This paper expresses the need for greater attentions to psychological contracting in a dairy sector going through substantial structural changes involving the replacement of self-employed farmers by hired managers and contract milkers and the widespread adoption of once-a-day milking.
 
Publisher Victoria University of Wellington
 
Date 2006-02-08
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier https://ojs.victoria.ac.nz/LEW/article/view/1311
10.26686/lew.v0i0.1311
 
Source Labour, Employment and Work in New Zealand; 2006: Labour, Employment and Work in New Zealand
2463-2600
 
Language eng
 
Relation https://ojs.victoria.ac.nz/LEW/article/view/1311/1171