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Déterminants du recours au travail atypique : Une étude des travailleurs à statut précaire dans les organisations québécoises

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  • Patricia Bielman
  • Denis Chênevert
  • Gilles Simard
  • Michel Tremblay

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The purpose of this study was to examine the factors that influence the use of contingent wokers. More than 250 Canadian organizations participed to the survey. Three class of determinants have been tested: environmental factors, work-force costs factors, and organizational flexibility factors. The model explained 19% of variance in intensity of use of contingent workers. The results suggest that the strategy of externalization of work is motivated much more by cost control considerations, and less by the research of organizational flexibility or by the nature of competitive environment and the structure of ownership. Cette étude, réalisée auprès de 250 entreprises privées québécoises, a pour objectif d'identifier les facteurs qui permettent d'expliquer l'intensité du recours à des contrats atypiques, et d'une façon plus particulière, à des travailleurs à statut précaire. Trois catégories de déterminants ont été testées : les facteurs environnementaux, les facteurs internes reliés aux coûts de0501n-d'oeuvre et les facteurs internes reliés à la flexibilité organisationnelle. Les variables du modèle ont permis d'expliquer 19 % de la variance de l'intensité du recours au statut précaire. Les résultats de notre étude suggèrent que le recours à des travailleurs à statut précaire peut être expliqué davantage par des raisons liées aux coûts de0501n-d'oeuvre que par des motifs liés à la flexibilité organisationnelle ou à l'environnement concurrentiel.

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  • Patricia Bielman & Denis Chênevert & Gilles Simard & Michel Tremblay, 1999. "Déterminants du recours au travail atypique : Une étude des travailleurs à statut précaire dans les organisations québécoises," CIRANO Working Papers 99s-36, CIRANO.
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