Denise M. Rousseau is the H.J. Heinz II Professor of Organizational Behavior and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University and served as president of the Academy of Management in 2004–2005. A graduate of the University of California at Berkeley (AB, MA, PhD), she has been elected Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Society for Industrial/Organizational Psychology, the Academy of Management, and the British Academy of Management, and currently is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Organizational Behavior. Her book Psychological Contracts in Organizations won the Academy of Management’s Terry Award in 1996. Her research examines employment relations and change in start-ups, high-technology firms, hospitals, high-reliability organizations, and nonprofits in many countries.

• Introduction; Chapter 1 What Is an Idiosyncratic Deal?; Chapter 2 Everyday Idiosyncrasy and Its Many Forms; Chapter 3 Shady Deals: What I-deals Are Not; Chapter 4 Signs of I-deals in Organizational Research; Chapter 5 I-deal Types: Six-Plus Ways Employees Bargain; Chapter 6 How Employees Negotiate I-Deals; Chapter 7 Coworkers: The I-deal’s Most Interested Third Part Ies; Chapter 8 Organizational Perspectives on I-deals as a Human Resource Practice; Chapter 9 Cross-National Factors and Idiosyncratic Deals; Chapter 10 Learning from I-deals;

Denise M. Rousseau is the H.J. Heinz II Professor of Organizational Behavior and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University and served as president of the Academy of Management in 2004–2005. A graduate of the University of California at Berkeley (AB, MA, PhD), she has been elected Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Society for Industrial/Organizational Psychology, the Academy of Management, and the British Academy of Management, and currently is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Organizational Behavior. Her book Psychological Contracts in Organizations won the Academy of Management’s Terry Award in 1996. Her research examines employment relations and change in start-ups, high-technology firms, hospitals, high-reliability organizations, and nonprofits in many countries.

• Introduction; Chapter 1 What Is an Idiosyncratic Deal?; Chapter 2 Everyday Idiosyncrasy and Its Many Forms; Chapter 3 Shady Deals: What I-deals Are Not; Chapter 4 Signs of I-deals in Organizational Research; Chapter 5 I-deal Types: Six-Plus Ways Employees Bargain; Chapter 6 How Employees Negotiate I-Deals; Chapter 7 Coworkers: The I-deal’s Most Interested Third Part Ies; Chapter 8 Organizational Perspectives on I-deals as a Human Resource Practice; Chapter 9 Cross-National Factors and Idiosyncratic Deals; Chapter 10 Learning from I-deals;

Denise M. Rousseau is the H.J. Heinz II Professor of Organizational Behavior and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University and served as president of the Academy of Management in 2004–2005. A graduate of the University of California at Berkeley (AB, MA, PhD), she has been elected Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Society for Industrial/Organizational Psychology, the Academy of Management, and the British Academy of Management, and currently is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Organizational Behavior. Her book Psychological Contracts in Organizations won the Academy of Management’s Terry Award in 1996. Her research examines employment relations and change in start-ups, high-technology firms, hospitals, high-reliability organizations, and nonprofits in many countries.

• Introduction; Chapter 1 What Is an Idiosyncratic Deal?; Chapter 2 Everyday Idiosyncrasy and Its Many Forms; Chapter 3 Shady Deals: What I-deals Are Not; Chapter 4 Signs of I-deals in Organizational Research; Chapter 5 I-deal Types: Six-Plus Ways Employees Bargain; Chapter 6 How Employees Negotiate I-Deals; Chapter 7 Coworkers: The I-deal’s Most Interested Third Part Ies; Chapter 8 Organizational Perspectives on I-deals as a Human Resource Practice; Chapter 9 Cross-National Factors and Idiosyncratic Deals; Chapter 10 Learning from I-deals;