What makes work better or worse? An analytical framework

Gregor Murray, Dalia Gesualdi-Fecteau, Christian Lévesque and Nicolas Roby
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Gregor Murray: École de relations industrielles (ÉRIUM) and Interuniversity Research Centre on Globalization and Work (CRIMT), Université de Montréal, Canada
Dalia Gesualdi-Fecteau: École de relations industrielles (ÉRIUM) and Interuniversity Research Centre on Globalization and Work (CRIMT), Université de Montréal, Canada
Christian Lévesque: Département de gestion des ressources humaines and Interuniversity Research Centre on Globalization and Work (CRIMT), HEC Montréal, Canada
Nicolas Roby: Interuniversity Research Centre on Globalization and Work (CRIMT), Université de Montréal, Canada

Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, 2023, vol. 29, issue 3, 305-322

Abstract: This article seeks to advance our thinking about better and worse work by developing a novel framework for assessing the quality of work and its implications. It does so in terms of the wider literature on job quality, while addressing the need to embrace a broader agenda and a more dynamic understanding of how to make worse work better. To this end it presents a three-dimensional framework: risk, autonomy and expressiveness. The framework assesses better and worse work and the ways in which workers navigate between these different dimensions of their lives at work. We explore implications for actor strategies and for researchers to take a better-work agenda forward.

Keywords: Better work; job quality; decent work; meaning of work; experimentation; work organisation; employee voice; participation; democracy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1177/10242589231207967

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