This paper examines the relationship between organization contextual variables and humanresource management (HRM) practices in small firms. The proposed model is based on anintegration of theoretical perspectives, including the resource-based approach, institutionaltheory, transaction cost...

Cet article a pour objet l'évaluation, à travers une étude de cas longitudinale, des apports de la théorie de la structuration dans l'analyse des relations entre stratégie et contrôle et dans la compréhension de leur rôle dans le maintien ou le changement des pratiques sociales d'une...

Le contraste des postures et des propositions de la recherche concernant l'étude du cynisme organisationnel permet d'engager une analyse critique sur la figure moderne du changement organisationnel. Tout d'abord le constat la multiplication d'attitudes et de sentiments négatifs (retrait,...

Cet article a pour objet l'évaluation, à travers une étude de cas longitudinale, des apports de la théorie de la structuration dans l'analyse des relations entre stratégie et contrôle et dans la compréhension de leur rôle dans le maintien ou le changement des pratiques sociales d'une...

We manipulate workers' perceived meaning of a job in a field experiment. Half of the workers are informed that their job is important, the other half are told that their job is of no relevance. Results show that workers exert more effort when meaning is high, corroborating previous findings on...

The performance of a work team commonly depends on the effort exerted by the team members as well as on the division of tasks among them. However, when leaders assign tasks to team members, performance is usually not the only consideration. Favouritism, employees' seniority, employees'...

This paper investigates the optimal design of incentives when agents distort probabilities. We show that the type of probability distortion displayed by the agent and its degree determine whether an incentivecompatible contract can be implemented, the strength of the incentives included in the...

Comparative payment schemes and tournament-style promotion mechanisms are ubiquitous in the work place. We test experimentally whether they have a negative impact on the willingness to cooperate. Participants first perform in a simple task and then participate in a public goods game. The payment...

Baker (2002) has demonstrated theoretically that the quality of performance measures used in compensation contracts hinges on two characteristics: noise and distortion. These criteria, though, will only be useful in practice as long as the noise and distortion of a performance measure can be...