Abstract
A growing body of research provides evidence that comparable employees working in the same job can have dissimilar working conditions. Idiosyncratic deals (I-deals) are customised employment arrangements negotiated between employees and their employers- an indication of a fundamental shift in the nature of the traditional employment relationship. Despite growing attention to I-deals in the past two decades, the conceptualisation of I-deals in the extant literature remains predominantly static, single-level, and fundamentally fails to capture the dynamic processes shaping I-deals across multiple national contexts. To enhance conceptual and theoretical advancement, we propose a multilevel framework which considers pressures at the macro-national, meso-organisational and micro-individual levels and delineate their dispersive and constitutive impact on I-deals. We argue that our multilevel I-deals framework can serve as a sophisticated heuristic to situate extant findings in the field into a broader framework, yielding a more comprehensive understanding of I-deals. We offer researchable propositions to enhance future conceptualisation and multilevel I-deals research.
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