16 research outputs found

    (Mis)Using employee volunteering for public relations: implications for corporate volunteers' organizational commitment

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    International audienceThis study examines the conditions under which corporate volunteering initiatives can result in work outcomes. We posit that employees participating in company-supported volunteering activities (corporate volunteers) respond attitudinally to company support for employee volunteering (CSEV) based on the attributions they make about the company's purpose in implementing the volunteering program. Specifically, we examine the moderating role of corporate volunteers' attributions concerning the public relations motives underlying companies' employee volunteering programs. A sequential mixed methodology design is used for this study, consisting of two distinct phases: qualitative followed by quantitative. Results show that attributions of public relations motives undermine the positive effects of CSEV on corporate volunteers' perceptions of company prosocial identity, and subsequently, on corporate volunteers' affective company commitment. We discuss implications for theory and practic

    La proactivité de carrière: un processus d'anticipation ou de planification d'événements ?

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    International audienceResearches on career proactivity face difficulties due to the reluctance of individuals to plan for their professional future. Career planning seems to be an obligation that employees meet more or less consentingly, in order to satisfy managerial expectations. This initial observation led us to present an alternative conceptualization of career proactivity. Beside the usual perspective, which mainly considers proactivity as a planning process, another perspective consists in presenting proactivity mainly as an anticipatory process (Grant et Ashford, 2008 ; Bindl et Parker, 2010 ; Fuller et al., 2012). Based on these two conceptual approaches and on interviews with a sample of twenty-five engineers, this paper aims to deeper understand proactive career behaviors. This qualitative study, drawing on the critical incident method, leads to a better understanding of the proactive anticipation process. The results show that, in an unstable and unpredictable professional world, this “anticipatory approach” is probably more workable that the planning approach.L’étude de la « proactivité de carrière », en tant qu’objet de recherche, se heurte à la réalité du terrain, c’est à dire à la difficulté et à la réticence des individus à se projeter dans leur avenir professionnel. Le plan de carrière semble être un exercice obligé auquel les salariés se prêtent de manière plus ou moins consentante pour correspondre aux exigences managériales. Cette observation initiale nous a amené à proposer deux lectures différentes de la proactivité de carrière, non pas seulement dans son acception habituelle, comme un processus de planification d’objectifs de carrière mais aussi comme un processus d’anticipation d’évènements de carrière, rejoignant en cela les travaux récents sur les comportements proactifs (Grant et Ashford, 2008 ; Bindl et Parker, 2010 ; Fuller et al., 2012). À partir de ces deux approches conceptuelles et d’entretiens menés auprès d’un échantillon de vingt-cinq ingénieurs, cet article vise à mieux comprendre ce qu’est un comportement proactif de carrière. Cette étude qualitative, s’inspirant de la méthode des incidents critiques, nous a permis d’approfondir la connaissance du processus proactif d’anticipation et de montrer que cette démarche « anticipatrice » est sans doute plus réalisable par les salariés que l’approche planificatrice, dans un monde professionnel considéré comme instable et peu prévisible
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