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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 … priorities. Overall, if the system’s goals are perhaps less “strategic” and if the instrumentation in France is less noticeable … France. As conceptualized by both sides, one may say that, competency management is not yet truly operationalized and is far …
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Visiting and office home care workers' occupational health: An analysis of workplace flexibility and worker insecurity measures associated with emotional and physical health
Zeytinoglu, Isik U.; Denton, Margaret; Davies, Sharon; … - 2009
The home health care sector in Canada experienced major restructuring in the mid-1990s creating a variety of flexibilities for organizations and insecurities for workers. This paper examines the emotional and physical health consequences of employer flexibilities and worker insecurities on home...
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Job satisfaction and coworker pay in Canadian firms
Javdani, Mohsen; Krauth, Brian - 2019
One reason to be concerned about income inequality is the idea that people not only care about their own absolute income, but also their income relative to various reference groups (e.g. co-workers, friends, neighbors, relatives, etc.). We use Canadian linked employer-employee data to estimate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012130547
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Visiting and office home care workers' occupational health : an analysis of workplace flexibility and worker insecurity measures associated with emotional and physical health
Zeytinoǧlu, Işik Urla; Denton, Margaret; Davies, Sharon; … - 2009
The home health care sector in Canada experienced major restructuring in the mid-1990s creating a variety of flexibilities for organizations and insecurities for workers. This paper examines the emotional and physical health consequences of employer flexibilities and worker insecurities on home...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003824223
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Post-injury work outcomes revisited
Baldwin, Marjorie L.; Conway, Karen Smith; Huang, Ju-chin - In: Southern economic journal 76 (2009) 1, pp. 47-66
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Job Satisfaction and Coworker Pay in Canadian Firms
Javdani, Mohsen - 2019
One reason to be concerned about income inequality is the idea that people not only care about their own absolute income, but also their income relative to various reference groups (e.g. co-workers, friends, neighbors, relatives, etc.). We use Canadian linked employer-employee data to estimate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012859735
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Employer Bullying : Implied Duties of Fair Dealing in Canadian Employment Contracts
Doorey, David J. - 2006
There are two approaches to employer bullying in the Canadian common law of employment. One approach treats it as a breach of an implied term of the employment contract requiring fair dealing (repudiation by breach of contract, or RBB). The other treats it as a repudiation of contract without...
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Are Public Services Still Essential in Quebec?
Fontaine, Laurence-Léa - 2010
In the event of a legal strike affecting the provision of some public services and the public and parapublic sectors, the parties in the dispute must ensure that the activity is partly maintained due to its critical nature. In other words, the legislator sometimes compels them to provide...
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An Experimental Canadian Survey that Links Workplace Practices and Employee Outcomes : Why it is Needed and How it Works
Picot, Garnett; Wannell, Ted - 1998
Fundamental changes have taken place in the labor market and among firms in the 1980s and 1990s. In some cases we understand what has occurred, but not why. In other cases the data do not exist to shed light on exactly what is happening, let alone why. Changes in the labor market are often...
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The Effect of Automobile Insurance and Accident Liability Laws on Traffic Fatalities
Cohen, Alma; Dehejia, Rajeev H. - 2005
This paper investigates the incentive effects of automobile insurance, compulsory insurance laws, and no-fault liability laws on driver behavior and traffic fatalities. We analyze a panel of 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia from 1970-1998, a period in which many states adopted...
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