The purpose of this study was to examine the factors that influence the use of contingent wokers. More than 250 Canadian organizations participed to the survey. Three class of determinants have been tested: environmental factors, work-force costs factors, and organizational flexibility factors....

In this study, realized with 536 French Canadian employees, we examine the perceived influence of four Human Resource Processes (information-sharing, empowerment, competencies and recognition) on the organizational commitment and the discretionary behaviors, on the one hand, as well as the role...

Many organizations today are concerned with career plateau. Most researchers in this field have chosen either an historical approach based on objective measures, or a psychological approach based on people's perception of being blocked in their career progression. Ettington (1992) shows the...

We might attribute the expanding scope of HRM to the alignment of choices made on other management variables relative to internal contingencies. The data were collected from 602 large organizations in three countries (Great Britain, France, Canada). The study shows that the relationship between...

Human resource practices and especially compensation are the elements most likely to promote attraction and retention of competent workers. However firms can choose between a mix of compensation policies and practices. The existant literature suggests that these choices are influenced by either...

The career anchors model proposed by Schein allows to stress the great variety of talents, motivations and values within homogeneous professional groups. However, how to interpret scores obtained in the various anchors does not make unanimity. This model postulates that an individual possesses...

The purpose of the present study is to verify three main hypothesis with a sample of 252 Canadians organizations: 1) does empowerment bundle and compensation practices bundle individually have an influence on the human resources performance?; 2) does the fit or the synergy between these two...