Relations Industrielles/Industrial Relations articles from September 2004

Relations Industrielles/Industrial Relations archives from September 2004

Skill-based pay: antecedents and outcomes/La remuneration basee sur les competences: determinants et incidences.
September 22, 2004... SUMMARY This study investigates skill-based pay systems. Under such systems, pay levels are determined according to the nature, variety or specialized knowledge or skills that employees acquire, demonstrate or apply in the workplace. The...

The relationship between employee involvement and workplace dispute resolution/La relation entre l'implication des salaries et le reglement des mesententes sur les lieux de travail.
September 22, 2004... This paper examines the relationship between employee involvement programs and workplace dispute resolution using data from the Workplace and Employee Survey (WES) conducted by Statistics Canada. The results provide support for a link between...

Do we need to care about professional in order to mobilize them? A data Reanalysis/ Faut-il se soucier de ses professionnels pour les mobiliser? Une reanalyse de donnees.
September 22, 2004... SUMMARY According to Julien (1991), there seems to be a feeling of demobilization among the professionals in Quebec's public service. This feeling is caused, in part, by inappropriate management styles. For instance, professionals tend to...

The determinants of participation in non-mandatory training/Les determinants de la participation a la formation continue volontaire.
September 22, 2004... This article presents an empirical research on the determinants of employees' participation in non-mandatory training offered by their employer. The analysis model identified two groups of determinants, i.e. socio-demographic (age, gender,...

Supporting skill-development through the creation of learning aids over the professional life course/Soutenir le developpement de competences par la conception d'aides a l'apprentissage sur le cours de vie professionnelle.
September 22, 2004... SUMMARY In the transformation context of work and of production methods, training plays a strategic role in the management of work efficiency and safety. However, training and human resource specialists run into a persistent gap between...

"Pulled apart, pushed together" diversity and unity within the Congress of South African Trade Unions/Diversite et unite au sein du Congres des syndicats sud-africains.
September 22, 2004... This is a study of horizontal and vertical solidarity within a national labour movement, based on a nationwide survey of members of affiliated unions of the Congress of South African Trade Unions. On the one hand, the survey reveals relatively...

The Paradox of American Unionism.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... The Paradox of American Unionism by Seymour Martin Lipset and Noah M. Meltz, Ithaca: ILR Press, 2004, 226 pages, ISBN 0-8014-4200-1. This book explores two paradoxes. The central paradox is that Americans approve of unions more than...

International and Comparative Employment Relations: Globalization and the Developed Market Economies.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... International and Comparative Employment Relations: Globalization and the Developed Market Economies edited by Greg J. BAMBER, Russell D. LANSBURY and Nick WAILES, 4th edition, London: Sage, 2004, 454 pages, ISBN 1-4129-0125-1 (pbk). This...

La chaine invisible. Travailler aujourd'hui : flux tendu et servitude volontaire.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... La chaine invisible. Travailler aujourd'hui : flux tendu et servitude volontaire par Jean-Pierre DURAND, Paris : Editions du Seuil, 2004, 387 pages, ISBN 2-02-062881-3. Les changements dans le travail soulevent bien des questions quant a...

L'organisation de la production et du travail : vers un nouveau modele?(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... L'organisation de la production et du travail : vers un nouveau modele ? sous la direction de Gregor MURRAY, Jacques BELANGER, Anthony GILES et Paul-Andre LAPOINTE, Quebec : Les Presses de l'Universite Laval, 2004, 262 pages, ISBN...

Culture and the Labour Market.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Culture and the Labour Market by Siobhan AUSTEN, Northampton, Mass.: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2003, 152 pages, ISBN 1-84376-317-6. Stimulated by the results of psychological and sociological studies, as well as by results of experimental...

Trade Unions in Europe: Meeting the Challenge.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Trade Unions in Europe: Meeting the Challenge edited by Deborah FOSTER and Peter SCOTT, Brussels: P.I.E. Peter Lang, 2003, 200 pages, ISBN 90-5201-959-2. Over the two past decades it has became common to refer to the crisis of European...

Le syndicalisme quebecois : deux siecles d'histoire.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Le syndicalisme quebecois : deux siecles d'histoire par Jacques ROUILLARD, Montreal : Boreal, 2004, 329 pages, ISBN 2-76046-0307-X. Cet ouvrage n'est pas fondamentalement nouveau. Il reprend Histoire du syndicalisme quebecois, publie en...

Le travail dans l'histoire de la pensee occidentale.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Le travail dans l'histoire de la pensee occidentale sous la direction de Daniel MERCURE et Jan SPURK, Quebec : Les Presses de l'Universite Laval, 2003, 310 pages, ISBN 2-7637-7943-3. Cet ouvrage se compose d'un ensemble de onze etudes...

Worked Over: The Corporate Sabotage of an American Community.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Worked Over: The Corporate Sabotage of an American Community by Dimitra Doukas, Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2003, 194 pages, ISBN 0-80148861-3. The rightward turn of politics in the United States, and the seeming inability of...

Recent publications/Publications recentes.
September 22, 2004... * Relations du travail Labour Relations >, Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld and Thomas Kochan, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, vol. 58, no 1, 2004, 3-26. >, Aurora Trif, South East Europe Review, vol. 7, no 2, 2004, 43-64. >, Simon...

Books received/Livres recus.
September 22, 2004... DORE, Ronald, New Forms and Meanings of Work in an Increasingly Globalized World, Geneva, Switzerland: International Institute for Labour Studies, 2003, 73 p. GAZIER, Bernard, Les strategies des ressources humaines, 3e edition, Paris :...

2004 list of referees/Liste des appreciateurs 2004.
September 22, 2004... Les membres du Comite de direction remercient les personnes suivantes pour leur contribution utile a la Revue en evaluant des manuscrits durant la derniere annee se terminant le 30 novembre 2004. The members of the Executive Committee...