Relations Industrielles/Industrial Relations articles from March 2007

Relations Industrielles/Industrial Relations archives from March 2007

Associations between work intensification, stress and job satisfaction: the case of nurses in Ontario/Les liens entre l'intensification du travail, le stress et la satisfaction au travail : le cas des infirmieres en Ontario/Las asociaciones entre intensificacion del trabajo, estres y satisfaccion del trabajo: el easo de las enfermeras en Ontario.
March 22, 2007... 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...

Determinants of stress in medical practice: evidence from Ontario physicians/Les facteurs de stress dans la pratique medicale: le cas des medecins en Ontario/Determinantes del estres en la practica medica: evidencias a partir de trabajo de los medicos del Ontario.
March 22, 2007... We use data from a unique survey of Ontario physicians to examine the determinants of work and personal stress in physicians with six stress indexes we constructed. We have a number of findings of particular interest. First, we find that males...

Study of the development of the determinants of affective commitment: the role of empowerment, of career plateauing and of organizational justice.
March 22, 2007... SUMMARY For more than a decade, researchers have studied the phenomenon of affective commitment and of its determinants. To our knowledge, no research has studied the variation of the determinants of affective commitment over rime. Our...

Renewal in Canadian public sector unions: neoliberalism and union praxis/ Renouvellement syndical dans le secteur public au Canada : neoliberalisme et action syndicale/Renovacion en los sindicatos del sector publico cananse: neoliberalismo y praxis sindical.
March 22, 2007... Challenges from employers and governments and the limited success of public sector union responses suggest the need for renewal in Canadian public sector unions. This article engages with discussions of union renewal by way of theoretically...

Development and validation of a structural model of work values/Developpement et validation d'un modele de structuration des valeurs au travail/Desarrollo y validacion de un modelo de estructuracion de valores en el trabajo.
March 22, 2007... SUMMARY Several attempts have been made to build instruments for measuring work values. Unfortunately, they tended to lack theoretical support (i.e., empirically driven instruments: Manhardt, 1972), were incomplete (i.e., outdated...

Socially responsible interference in inter-organizational relations/L'ingerence socialement responsable dans les relations interorganisationnelles/La ingerencia socialmente responsable en las relaciones interorganizacionales.
March 22, 2007... SUMMARY The goal of this article is to analyse the influence of the socially responsible instrumentation of key firms on the modes of employment management of their partner businesses. Through examples of International Framework Agreements...

Le droit de l'emploi au Quebec.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Le droit de l'emploi au Quebec, 3e edition, par Fernand Morin, Jean-Yves BRIERE et Dominic Roux, Montreal : Wilson & Lafleur, 2006, 1780 p., ISBN : 2-89127-763-5 Cette troisieme edition du Droit de l'emploi au Quebec est un ouvrage...

Employment Equity and Affirmative Action: An International Comparison.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Employment Equity and Affirmative Action: An International Comparison, by Harish C. JAIN, Peter J. SLOANE and Frank M. HORWITZ, with Simon TAGGAR and Nan WEINER, Armonk, N. Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 2003, 229 pp., ISBN-10: 0-7656-0453-1 and ISBN-13:...

Moving Up in the New Economy: Career Ladders for U.S. Workers.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Moving Up in the New Economy: Career Ladders for U.S. Workers, par Joan FITZGERALD, Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2006, 251 p., ISBN: 0-8014-4413-6 De toutes parts, tant dans la litterature scientifique que dans les ouvrages...

Leviathans : Multinational Corporations and the New Global History.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Leviathans : Multinational Corporations and the New Global History, sous la direction d'Alfred D. CHANDLER, Jr. et Bruce MAZLISH, Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2005, 264 p., ISBN : 0-5215-4993-0 Alors qu'au cours de la derniere...

"If the Workers Took a Notion": The Right to Strike and American Political Development.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... "If the Workers Took a Notion": The Right to Strike and American Political Development, by Josiah B. LAMBERT, Ithaca, N.Y.: ILR Press, 2005, ix, 259 pp., ISBN-10: 0-8014-8945-8 and ISBN-13:978-0-8014-8945-7 This book by political scientist...

Vers une transformation des relations industrielles en Amerique du Nord.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Vers une transformation des relations industrielles en Amerique du Nord, par Jean-Claude BERNATCHEZ, Quebec : Presses de l'Universite du Quebec, 2006, 202 p., ISBN : 2-7605-1388-2 Agreable a lire, formateur, audacieux, voire parfois...

Recent publications/Publications recentes.(Bibliography)
March 22, 2007... Relations du travail Labour Relations Partnership with and without Trade Unions in the UK Financial Services : Filling or Fuelling the Representation Gap? Stephanie Tailby, Mike Richardson, Martin Upchurch, Andy Danford and Paul Stewart,...

Books received/Livres recus.
March 22, 2007... HALL, Richard, edited by, Industrial Relations: A Current Review, Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications, 2006, 137 p. KEUNE, Maarten and Bela GALGOCZI, edited by, Collective Bargaining on Working Team: Recent European Experiences,...