Workforce management: a conventionalist reading of coordination between management control and human ressources

Le pilotage des effectifs: Une lecture conventionnaliste de la coordination entre fonctions contrôle de gestion et RH

Salomon Bernier-Khedache ()
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Salomon Bernier-Khedache: IRG - Institut de Recherche en Gestion - UPEM - Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée - UPEC UP12 - Université Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne - Paris 12

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Abstract: To face the economic environment, companies have to adapt their workforce, upward or downward. Through two contrasting cases study, coordination between actors is described, highlighting the existence of a downsizing convention. Driven by financial ratios and their logic, this convention regulates practices' actors in case of a downsizing policy but also when the company needs to recruit, which contributes to brake on development of the growing organization.

Keywords: staffing; restructuring; conventions; pilotage des effectifs; restructuration; théorie des conventions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019-12-16
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Published in Revue Française de Gestion, 2019, Sciences, techniques et pratiques de gestion, 45 (283), pp.31-49. ⟨10.3166/rfg.2019.00363⟩

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DOI: 10.3166/rfg.2019.00363

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