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The four-day workweek: Assessing Individual Readiness
Faim, Carolina; Proença, Teresa; Fontinha, RitaThe length of the working week has historically undergone significant changes. In the 19th century, a typical workweek comprised of six days, each lasting ten-hour. By the mid-20th century, this was reduced to eight-hour days (Cross, 1989; Hunnicutt, 1988). The 5/40 model, entailing five workdays of eight hours each, gradually became the standard, introduced by Henry Ford in 1926 (Hunnicutt, 1984). This model w...
Human resource management in triangular employment relationships
Fontinha, RitaThis dissertation concerns the triangular employment relationships of agency workers and outsourced workers. In particular, the aim was to investigate the relationship between employees’ perceptions and attributions of human resource management (HRM) practices and their dual affective organisational commitment, i.e., their commitment towards both the agency/outsourcer and the client organisation. We developed t...