Abstract

The notion that some employees cut special deals with their employers in order to advance their own interests will strike a chord with most people. We may know of occasions when we have made such arrangements; more likely, we may suspect others in our workplace have such arrangements. Furthermore, i-deals fit with some evidence and management discourse about the increasing individualization of the employment relationship and proliferation of different types of employment contracts (Bidwell, Briscoe, Fernandez-Mateo, & Sterling, 2013).