For more than a decade, researchers have studied the phenomenon of affective commitment and of its determinants. To our knowledge, no research has studied the variation of the determinants of affective commitment over time. Our research studies the impact of changes made to three HRM systems on...

Contrary to Schein’s theory of career anchors, which rests on the dominance of a single career anchor, the present study proposes an original career anchor structure that captures multiple dominant anchors. The analysis of data from a sample of 880 Quebec engineers supports this...

In the new information-centered economies, professions related to engineering, information technologies, management of information systems and R&D are becoming increasingly important. It is therefore not surprising that organizations consider these professionals a strategic resource that...