L’implication (ou l’engagement ?) au travail : quoi de neuf ?

Cette contribution théorique examine la rupture progressive de la conceptualisation en trois composantes de l’implication au travail élaborée par Meyer et Allen [1991]. La proposition de Klein, Molloy et Brinsfield en 2012, précédée par celles de Cohen [2007] et de Solinger, Van Olffen et Roe [2008] offre un panaroma des réflexions conceptuelles novatrices de l’implication et de sa mesure. Nous rappelons les travaux fondateurs de Mowday, Porter et Steers [1982] et de Morrow [1983, 1993] pour mieux comprendre les critiques récurrentes portées au modèle de Meyer et Allen et l’apport de l’article de Klein et al. qui remet en question la définition de l’implication en présentant un continuum de liens psychologiques. Ces différents types de liens sont considérés comme des construits distincts et non comme différentes formes d’implication. L’implication au travail est ainsi définie comme un type particulier de lien, applicable à plusieurs cibles, et reflétant le dévouement volontaire et la responsabilité pour une cible. Cette nouvelle conceptualisation facilite l’étude de l’implication multiple mais ne dit rien des profils de salariés caractérisés par des liens multiples à l’égard d’une même cible ou de cibles différentes. Les conséquences des évolutions progressives et de cette récente proposition sur la terminologie utilisée dans la recherche francophone sont également discutées

Grouping or Grounding? Cultural District and Creative Cluster Management in Nantes, France

This study examines the genesis of a cultural and creative cluster (CCC) as a collection of small or very small companies. The authors use the results of a longitudinal case study of the trajectory of a CCC to reflect on the management mechanisms in CCCs based on an analysis of management tools and how they operate to encourage Grounding and/or Grouping dynamics. This six-year study of Quartier de la Creation in Nantes, France, confirms the prevailing view of a CCC as a dynamic organization. The CCC shows distinct stages, each with its own governance and managerial difficulties. It reveals challenges in shaping the role of the support organization and in identifying the competencies to be developed. The governance mechanisms and the cluster practices of some localized groupings of very small creative enterprises require a balancing of Grouping and Grounding approaches, as hybridizing is central to cluster dynamics

The love of money is the root of all evil: Pay satisfaction and cpi as moderators

10.5464.AMBPP.2011.135.aAcademy of Management 2011 Annual Meeting - West Meets East: Enlightening. Balancing. Transcending, AOM 2011

The Love of Money and Pay Level Satisfaction: Measurement and Functional Equivalence in 29 Geopolitical Entities around the World

Demonstrating the equivalence of constructs is a key requirement for crosscultural empirical research. The major purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how to assess measurement and functional equivalence or invariance using the 9-item, 3-factor Love of Money Scale (LOMS, a second-order factor model) and the 4-item, 1-factor Pay Level Satisfaction Scale (PLSS, a first-order factor model) across 29 samples in six continents (N = 5973). In step 1, we tested the configural, metric and scalar invariance of the LOMS and 17 samples achieved measurement invariance. In step 2, we applied the same procedures to the PLSS and nine samples achieved measurement invariance. Five samples (Brazil, China, South Africa, Spain and the USA) passed the measurement invariance criteria for both measures. In step 3, we found that for these two measures, common method variance was non-significant. In step 4, we tested the functional equivalence between the Love of Money Scale and Pay Level Satisfaction Scale. We achieved functional equivalence for these two scales in all five samples. The results of this study suggest the critical importance of evaluating and establishing measurement equivalence in cross-cultural studies. Suggestions for remedying measurement nonequivalence are offered