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Career Plateauing : A Case Study in a Quebec Municipality
Lemire, Louise; Rouillard, Christian - 2010
This paper refers to original empirical data to deal with the issue of career plateauing in a large Quebec civic administration following a major reorganization in the mid-1990s. According to several studies on organizational downsizing, subjective career plateauing has major consequences: it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014192119
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Intersecting Reflections on Competency Management in France and in North America
Bouteiller, Dominique; Gilbert, Patrick - 2010
differently, particularly as concerns France and North America. As well, this approach has not yet been well documented from a …. The centrality of performance in the debate and in the instrumentation is also clearly evident in the North American …, then these skills are defined, calibrated, and measured with a view to a certain performance level which is to be attained …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014193667
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Associations between Work Intensification, Stress and Job Satisfaction : The Case of Nurses in Ontario
Zeytinoglu, Isik U.; Denton, Margaret; Davies, Sharon; … - 2010
Health sector reform of the 1990s affected most health care workers in Ontario and in other provinces. As a result of organizational changes, many workers experienced work intensification. This paper examines the associations between work intensification, stress and job satisfaction focusing on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014195055
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The Influence of Human Resource Management Practices on Employee Voluntary Turnover Rates in the Canadian Non Governmental Sector
Haines, Victor Y. - 2010
The authors tested the influence of thirteen human resource management practices on voluntary turnover rates the following year while controlling for workplace size, the presence of a separate human resources management unit, union density, industry, and region. Analysis of data from 4,160...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141543
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Employer downsizing and older workers' health
Gutierrez, Italo A.; Michaud, Pierre-Carl - 2015
We estimate the effects of employer downsizing on older workers' health outcomes using different approaches to control for endogeneity and sample selection. With the exception of the instrumental variables approach, which provides large imprecise estimates, our results suggest that employer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011288529
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Regional Manufacturing Employment Volatility in Canada : The Effects of Specialization and Trade
Baldwin, John R. - 2009
change much more difficult. Finally, the paper shows that increases in export intensity affects the underlying structures of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013159880
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Employer Downsizing and Older Workers' Health
Gutierrez, Italo A. - 2015
We estimate the effects of employer downsizing on older workers' health outcomes using different approaches to control for endogeneity and sample selection. With the exception of the instrumental variables approach, which provides large imprecise estimates, our results suggest that employer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016355
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Divergent Trends in Citizenship Rates Among Immigrants in Canada and the United States
Picot, Garnett; Hou, Feng - 2012
This paper addresses two issues. First: among immigrants, is there a labour market benefit associated with becoming a citizen of the host country, in this case Canada or the United States? Recent international research indicates that there is an economic return to acquiring citizenship. Second:...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014172415
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Organizational redesign, information technologies and workplace productivity
Dostie, Benoît; Jayaraman, Rajshri - 2008
Using a large longitudinal, nationally representative workplace-level dataset, we explore the productivity gains associated with computer use and organizational redesign. The empirical strategy involves the estimation of a production function, augmented to account for technology use and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010357563
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Relationships between Organizational Support, Organizational Commitment and Retention : Evidence from High-Potential Employees
Abraham, Jocelyne - 2018
-Val de Loire Region (France). Statistical analyses were conducted using the Macro MEDIATE developed by Hayes and Preacher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012935991