From Contract to Status: Perspectives on Employment Seniority*
作者:
Carl Gersuny,
期刊:
Sociological Inquiry
(WILEY Available online 1984)
卷期:
Volume 54,
issue 1
页码: 44-61
ISSN:0038-0245
年代: 1984
DOI:10.1111/j.1475-682X.1984.tb00044.x
出版商: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
Length of service as a criterion governing personnel decisions is a widely applied normative principle. Contractual agreements that provide that employees' status with respect to promotion and layoff be based on seniority serve to limit discrimination and favoritism, remove an element of competition among workers, and provide a form of social insurance against the contingencies of aging. This status variable is sometimes erroneously perceived as “job ownership.” Decline of labor turnover, the aging of the labor force, and growth of pension programs reinforce concern about seniority. Expectations based on seniority have been challenged under the Civil Rights Act by former discriminatees who question the fairness of the rank ordering. In times of declining opportunity seniority as an allocative device assumes greater importance, while in a utopia, where all jobs are equally satisfying and there is full employment, seniority would be irrelev
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