L'objet de cet article est de montrer en quoi une méthode mixte permet d’analyser et de comprendre les effets de pratiques organisationnelles caractéristiques de la lean production, sur la satisfaction et la santé au travail et ce, dans le contexte français. Les résultats montrent que...

This chapter explores how national cultural differences between partners involved in a contractual relationship may interfere with the development of trust. This is illustrated through a case study of a management contract signed by a French private company (Promostate) and public Lebanese...

Difficulties linked to the prevention of psychosocial pathologies related to work The actions of management aiming to protect the employees from mental and psychosomatic troubles due to working conditions are still very few, in spite of increasing pressures on employers. The multiciplity of the...

Workplace bullying is often studied using an individual approach that is centred on a pathological “play” between a torturer and a victim. Conversely, this article employs an organisational approach, as our goal is to analyze the organisational antecedents of workplace bullying. Our study is...

International Human Resource Management offers a contemporary and multilayered introduction to international and comparative human resource management for university study. It critically analyses the core issues and emerging trends in the field, with a consistent emphasis on real-world scenarios...

The debate on distance teams, mostly virtual teams, has been especially prominent in the academic literature for the last few years. Among the different concepts that have been studied by researchers, little attention has been paid explicitly to national culture. Although sometimes presented as...