Tania Saba

Université de Montréal | UdeM

While government, institutional and community efforts were in full swing to stimulate women’s entrepreneurship, COVID-19 hit the global economy hard. This article focuses on the determinants that stimulate the entrepreneurial optimism among women entrepreneurs and strengthen the capacity of Quebec’s SMEs to survive. Explanatory frameworks from chao...

Résumé L’objectif de cette étude est d’examiner comment le recours généralisé au télétravail durant la pandémie de la COVID-19 a pu créer un contexte de travail spécifique influençant la santé psychologique et la performance des employés. Les résultats des analyses menées sur un échantillon de 3771 télétravailleurs canadiens ont révélé que le trava...

This study extends our knowledge about the management of older employees in the sector of financial services, which faces enormous transformational pressures (e.g., emergence of artificial intelligence, digital services). Based on the black box model of human resource management, we investigate how executives at 16 major financial institutions mana...

La pandémie de Covid-19 a eu des répercussions sans précédent sur de nombreuses entreprises. L’objectif de cet article est d’étudier l’influence de l’optimisme situé sur la capacité de l’entrepreneur à surmonter le stress perçu en période de crise. Notamment, lorsqu’il est pris entre le marteau (problèmes financiers résultants des mesures sanitaire...

Purpose In the context of population aging, retirement has become a central issue in academic, professional and government discourse. A consensus can be seen to be emerging around the idea of postponing retirement in favor of promoting active aging. From this perspective, the purpose of this study, using work-role attachment theory and met expectat...

The covid-19 pandemic crisis presents unprecedented challenges and has profound implications for the way people live and work. Information and communication technologies have been playing a crucial role in ensuring business continuity as lockdown measures have suddenly forced employees from across the globe to telework, often leaving them unprepare...

Different Work Values of Generations: Do They Exist The co-existence of workers from several generations sharing the workplace seems nowadays to cause some difficulties in human resources management. It is argued that generations have different values and expectations that are difficult to reconcile. Older generations are less inclined to retire ea...

St-Onge, S, Ballesteros-Leiva, F., Haines V, Saba T. « La gestion des professionnels âgés dans le secteur de la finance et des assurances » (communication acceptée). 54e Conférence annuelle de l'Association canadienne des relations industrielles (ACRI). 30 mai au 1 juin, Toronto.

Purpose – In response to the conclusions of a meta-analysis of career success studies (Ng et al., 2005), the purpose of this paper is to expand the range of variables being examined as predictors of career success by weaving the person-organization fit and external marketability perspectives into current career success frameworks. Design/methodolo...

Purpose – This study seeks to examine the identity‐relevant stress proposition according to which events occurring in highly‐salient identity domains have a greater impact on psychological well‐being than events occurring in less salient identity domains. The aim of the study is to integrate identity theory into occupational stress research by inve...

We examined the impact of generations on individual work values in Quebec and the United Arab Emirates. We used two convenience samples, encompassing 186 French-speaking Canadians in Quebec and 252 Arabs in the United Arab Emirates. We used an abridged version of Wils, Luncasu and Waxin (2007) work value inventory, including 28 work values arranged...

The purpose of this research is to examine whether differences exist in the work values of several generations among 186 respondents in Quebec and 252 Arab respondents in the United Arab Emirates. We used an abridged version of Wils, Luncasu and Waxin (2007) work value inventory, including 28 work values arranged on four poles: self-enhancement, se...

Les organisations implantent des «systèmes de travail à haut rendement» dans l’espoir d’arriver à une performance supérieure. Selon la théorie de la congruence valorielle, ces systèmes ne sont toutefois viables que s’il est possible de recruter des individus ayant des valeurs au travail qui sont congruentes avec les principes philosophiques sous-ja...

Les organisations implantent des «systèmes de travail à haut rendement» dans l’espoir d’arriver à une performance supérieure. Selon la théorie de la congruence valorielle, ces systèmes ne sont toutefois viables que s’il est possible de recruter des individus ayant des valeurs au travail qui sont congruentes avec les principes philosophiques sous-ja...

The Intergenerational Gap in the Workplace: Cutting Through the Hype Today’s generation of young workers are often seen as having very different expectations of work than older generations. This article explores the reasons that may explain a potential intergenerational gap in the workplace. Then, based on three studies, it attempts to determine th...

RésuméPour répondre à leurs besoins de flexibilité, employeurs et employés sont plus ouverts au travail à temps partiel. Or, les études rapportent des résultats mitigés quant à son incidence sur les comportements au travail. Le concept du contrat psychologique permet d'identifier la nature de la relation d'emploi et constitue un cadre explicatif in...

Purpose – This study aims to explore how the motivational construct of intrinsic motivation for an international assignment relates to variables of interest in international expatriation research. Design/methodology/approach – Questionnaire data from 331 employed business school alumni of a high‐ranking Canadian MBA program was analyzed. The sampl...

This study empirically tests a model of associations between family-domain variables and willingness to accept an international assignment, and applies the general model to sub-samples of men and women to examine gender differences in the pattern of relationships. We further explore these patterns in culturally similar and culturally distant countr...

Employers and employees are open to part-time work as a way to better respond to the need for flexibility. However, research findings comparing the work attitudes of part-time and full-time workers are inconclusive. The concept of the psychological contract makes it possible to identify the nature of the working relationship and constitutes an inte...

Employers and employees are open to part-time work as a way to better respond to the need for flexibility. However research findings comparing the work attitudes of part-time and full-time workers are inconclusive. The concept of the psychological contract makes it possible to identify the nature of the working relationship and constitutes an inter...

Building commitment and preventing costly turnover are key challenges facing organizations today. This paper examines whether the fulfilled elements of the employment relationship that predict commitment and willingness to change companies vary significantly with age. Using a sample of 270 employees working in retail stores, it was found that in co...

Baby boomers in public agencies are getting ready to retire and there are concerns about retaining the existing workforce apart from recruiting younger managers. Recent studies of workplace patterns of older workers have shown that the workforce of older workers should no longer be seen as a unidirectional journey to retirement. Older workers may v...

Succession Planning in the Context of an Ageing Workforce The ageing of the Canadian population, along with that of most industrialized countries, is a largely acknowledged fact. This trend affects succession planning in organizations, which are forced to find solutions to labour shortages and ensure the replacement of their human resources. As the...

In many industries in Quebec and Canada, as well as in other Western countries, labour shortages have now replaced labour surpluses in a context where succession is growing scarce and a real culture of rapid departure has developed as a result of the recent waves of early retirement and the work overload that this has created for the “survivors.”Af...

Dans le contexte actuel de penuries de competences, la fonction ressources humaines — apres avoir encourage les departs anticipes — se voit confrontee au defi de maintenir en emploi les employes vieillissants. Apres avoir passe en revue les principales pratiques de gestion associees a la retention des employes de 50 ans et plus, les auteurs mesuren...

The willingness of executives to accept international postings: a matter of personal profile or incentives? Globalization is making the international mobility of executives increasingly important, because they are the people responsible for international business development. Of the numerous studies that seek to identify the determining factors ass...

Focuses on new trends that have been identified for Canadian human resources (HR): the emergence of new roles for HR; new forms of partnerships, particularly in the labor-management relations; globalizations in daily HR operations; work life issues; programs to tackle the shifting demographics; pressure to effect downsizing and cope with mergers an...

Outsourcing is a fast-growing phenomenon. Outsourcing not only means handing over an activity to a supplier outside the firm, but also entails the examination of the possibility of outsourcing some of its production, taking into account factors such as choice of partners, risks, the type of contract involved and the volume of activities to contract...

Afin de répondre aux pressions économiques, aux vagues de rationalisation et aux nouvelles formes d'organisation du travail, les entreprises considèrent pouvoir améliorer leur efficacité en impartissant certaines fonctions organisationnelles à des fournisseurs dans le but de réduire leurs coûts, d'avoir accès à des services d'experts et de s'attard...

Many events in recent decades have made promotion opportunities increasingly scarce, thus significantly changing the career prospects of a large number of individuals. Feelings of career failure can have negative consequences for both individuals and organizations. Based on a survey of 192 managers and professionals in the Quebec public sector, our...

Because the low participation rate of women in international management is problematic, this study seeks to identify which international mobility policies and practices appear to be most responsive to the needs of women. Based upon 337 responses to a questionnaire survey, the results show significant gender differences on five career-related intern...

Dans le cadre de cet article, nous proposons d'identifier et d'analyser certains des problemes juridiques decoulant de l'expatriation international e du personnel.

With the aging of the baby boomers, demographic trends show that, with the approach of the year 2000, the numbers of employees who will be in their fifties will dramatically increase. Managing older employees with critical skills will become a major challenge to human resource managers striving to contribute to the competitiveness of their organiza...

Dans le cadre du "management" international, une attention particuliere est portee, ces derniers temps, au role de la fonction ressources humaines (fonction RH) comme partenaire strategique pouvant contribuer au succes de l'entreprise sur le plan mondial. Inspire des modeles de gestion americains et europeens, cet article examine le role que doit j...

Le vieillissement est une tendance ineluctable de la main-d'oeuvre. Mais est-il encore possible de mobiliser les travailleurs ages de 50 ans et plus que l'on dit frequemment demobilisee , peu portee a accepter les changements ou a s'investir et que l'on caricature sous les traits de l'employe qui se la coule douce en attendant la retraite?

"Two opposing retirement options--early retirement or prolonged working life--are being presented in the burgeoning literature related to the ineluctable ageing of the work force. Both are allegedly proposed for economic reasons and claim to meet the expectations and needs of ageing workers. But what in reality are the retirement goals of older wor...

RÉSUMÉ Encadrées par une même tendance, celle du vieillissement inéluctable de la population active, deux visions antinomiques de la retraite s'affrontent : la retraite avancée et l'extension de la vie professionnelle. Les deux modèles sont principalement portés par des raisons économiques et prétendent avec la même conviction répondre aux aspirati...

Facteurs explicatifs des intentions de quitter des cadres : l’importance de la carrière

A l'heure du vieillissement de la main d'oeuvre et une gestion des ressources humaines qu se veut toujours plus mobilisatrice, la question des facteurs explicatifs de l'implication des professionnels en fin de carrieres s'avere particulierement pertinente.