Dans cet article nous nous interessons aux facteurs qui ont pour effet d'accelerer ou de ralentir la reorganisation du travail dans le secteur public. Notre analyse est fondee sur une revision de la litterature pertinente et sur les propos recueillis lors d'entrevues aupres des gestionnaires du...

La "mobilisation" des employes est une expression qui est tres utilisee dans les ecrits en management, mais qui n'a pas encore ete clairement definie. L'objet de cet article est de proposer une definition de la mobilisation en se basant sur l'opinion de 91 professionnels en ressources humaines...

Depuis quelques annees, la fonction <<ressources humaines> a subi de profondes mutations. Un tel processus de renouvellement aura vraisemblablement dans le future proche, un impact son seulement sur le contenu de la tache et des role des professionnels en ressources humaines mais aussi sur leur carriere. L'objet de...</<ressources>

While the theoretical literature on Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) focuses largely on movements in capital and firm specific technology, recent empirical evidence emphasizes primarily the local human capital necessary to absorb FDI technology. We examine how human capital affects FDI and add a...

Survey data indicate that different dimensions of health affect the wages of men and women in urban Brazil. Height has a large and significant effect on wages: taller men and women earn more. Body mass index (BMI) is associated with higher wages of males, especially among the less-educated,...

The Canadian Labour Congress believes the Labour Education and Training Research Network is an absolutely vital instrument for addressing the hard questions in training that labour faces.

This paper examines the effects of union membership on completion rates among Canadian apprentices. Previous research by Holmes and Singh indicated that indenture class - among other variables - was an important predictor of completion probabilities of B.C. construction trade apprentices. To...

The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of financial capital markets in influencing demand for children in developing countries. As such it is also important to consider their contributions to current utility through child labour. The incorporation of this aspect provides an alternative...

For SHRM to advance, it must eventually be based on a theory that specifies not only concepts and relationships, but appropriate and high-quality measures to express and test them. For metrics to advance beyond simply a large inventory of potentially-useful indices with no integrating logic or...