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...

The career anchors model proposed by Schein allows to stress the great variety of talents, motivations and values within homogeneous professional groups. However, how to interpret scores obtained in the various anchors does not make unanimity. This model postulates that an individual possesses...

Many studies on the effects of new technologies on employment, particularly in the field of electronics, are often either too general, too technical, or both. This paper, which is part of a larger research project, attempts to avoid these pit-falls by presenting a "micro" as well as a "macro"...

[fre] Au Québec — comme dans de nombreux pays — les PME manufacturières ont contribué à atténuer les effets de la crise, en créant des emplois dans les diverses régions. Le développement de l'entrepreneurship local — moins important là où les PME étaient soit sur-représentées...