The article reviews recent literature on the relationship between sickness absence and the conditions of the economy (i.e., recession or expansion). Two notions, notably the "employer selection" and the "worker disciplinary effect", can be useful in speculating on the relationship. The general...

Advocates of diversity management, replacing the economic differences based on traditional analysis of societies (bourgeois and proletarians, rich and poor, employers and employees) for classifications based on skin colour, gender, religion, aim to get across the idea that in a world without...

This paper attempts to give some hints for human resources management that are founded on a motivation-based economic analysis of incentives and the idea of relational capital. It is argued that cross-fertilization between traditional economic literature on incentives, experimental economics and...

If some European countries started work on age management long ago, several reports confirmed the urgency and the complexity of age management in France. The low participation of French older workers in the labour market was the result of premature exclusion, within a context of high...

This paper focuses on the process whereby an individual at work is singled out and victimised. This phenomenon, named ‘psychological harassment', is defined in terms of four interrelated phases: (1) antecedents interaction, (2) harassment behaviour, (3) responses of the victim and the...