Private equity buyouts have sparked debates among labor unions and worker representatives on how they affect workers. This chapter provides an overview of academic evidence on how private equity buyouts affect workers. We review the theoretical reasons why employees could be affected and then...

The distribution of job quality across workers and the change in job quality over time can be measured by job-domain indices or single-index job-satisfaction. This paper takes both approaches to establish the evolution of job quality over a period from the mid-1990s to the mid-2010s in 13 OECD...

Part I: Fulfillment -- Chapter 1: How We View Work: A Historical Perspective -- Chapter 2: Soft Skills as a Conscious Choice to Greater Collaboration at Work -- Chapter 3: Meaning at Work: Dimensions, Implications and Recommendations -- Chapter 4: Spiritual Guidance in the Personal Efficacy of...