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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]

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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)

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.

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  • Salomon Bernier-Khedache, 2019. "Workforce management: a conventionalist reading of coordination between management control and human ressources [Le pilotage des effectifs : Une lecture conventionnaliste de la coordination entre f," Post-Print hal-02539321, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-02539321
    DOI: 10.3166/rfg.2019.00363
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    staffing; restructuring; conventions; pilotage des effectifs; restructuration; théorie des conventions;
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