The paper analyses the contemporary organizational restructuring of production and work and derives some salient implications for the labour market. The analysis focuses on the switch from occupational specialization at 'Tayloristic' organizations to multi-tasking at 'holistic' organizations....

The IT revolution generated important changes on society and firms. Under these circumstances, the companies’ management reaches to the five-generation assuring, base on plurality, fast decisions making, and an equal treatment of the employers taking into consideration the high level of their...

We analyze a model with two-dimensional asymmetric information where the employer has better information about the firm's earnings potential and the employee is subject to moral hazard. The employee's contract consists of an annual bonus and stock options. We focus on two issues: how different...

L'auteur demontre que le declin de la remuneration au merite s'explique par l'absence de gestion dynamique des salaires.Or, la remuneration a l'anciennete pourrait etre pratiquee a nouveua dans le cadre de la gestion previsionnelle des salaires.

Ce document presente une vue d'ensemble de l'etude que realise l'auteur. Il s'interesse aux comportements des employeurs (recrutement, promotion, gestion de carriere) face a l'acroissement d'education. Sans remettre en cause les effets de l'offre de diplomes, l'etude vise a comprendre pourquoi...

L'auteur demontre que le developpement des pratiques de gestion de la qualite est negativement asssocie a l'evaluation par les D.R.H., du niveau de mobilisation des ressources humaines. Ainsi le lien entre le developpement de certaines pratiques de gestion de la qualite et la perception qu'ont...

This paper adopts a similar position to French (1987:401) who emphasises the "any differences between engeneers and scientits and the rest of workeforce are differences only in degree and only in certain dimensions". Indeed, it suggests further that the degrees of difference may becomming...

Downsizing has become a daily news phenomenon. This study provides a literature synthesis on the impact of downsizing on the "victims" and the "survivors", and shares the experiences of three large Canadian companies who had gone through the process.

In this paper, we will propose that both Management bu instructions (MBI) and Management by Objectives (MBO) today give notoriously inadequate results. Management by Values (MBV), on the other hand, is emerging as a strategic leadership tool of tremendous potential for practical development, as...

Le but de l'article est de cerner le point de vue des gestionnaires sur la facon de gerer la main-d'oeuvre professionnelle dans leurs organisation. Cette analyse sera effectuee a partir du model-ideal de gestion des professionnels.