In this Paper we use data from industrial plants to investigate if seniority-based pay is used as a motivational device for production workers. Alternatively, seniority-based pay could simply be a wage-setting rule not necessarily related to the provision of incentives. Unlike previous papers,...

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...

We investigate whether competition between two firms to hire managers with different abilities might affect the product markets efficiency, when a manager's effort once hired is or her private information. We conclude that competition for managers might lead to an efficiency improvement in the...

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...

The purpose of this study was to expand research on personality and leadership by investigating the relationship between leader personality and firm performance. Drawing from research on the five-factor model of personality ("the Big Fife") leader emotional adjustment (low neuroticism) and...

The present study investigated the degree to which traits from the five-factor model of personality (often termed the "Big five") and cognitive ability were associated with several dimensions of extrinsic (salary, number of promotions, job level) and intrinsic (job satisfaction, life...

La gestion des ressources humaines (GRH) est un domaine où les choses changent actuellement tres vite dans le monde, lui-même en plein changement economique et social, a cause de l'arrivee des nouvelles technologies de l'information et de la communication. Les entreprises sont plongees dans...

Ce texte s'interroge sur la place donnee a la formation au sein des entreprises qui ont signe des ententes de longue duree, notamment en ce qui concerne les processus formels de negociation entre les syndicats et les employeurs. Ces nouvelles ententes que d'aucuns qualifient de convention...

This study decribes the typical effects of the merger process on the people involved and, using the merger between Molson Breweries and Carling O'keefe as an example, identifies the crucial role that human resource professionals must play in ensuring merger success.