Daniel Pasquier

A Longitudinal Study of the Impact of an Environmental Action.

In a previous study, we investigated the impact of an awareness-raising campaign on the behaviour of secondary school children in the Centre Region of France, regarding the recycling of used batteries. But, was it a question of pro-environmental behaviour or simply an environmental action? To answer this question, a three-year longitudinal study was carried out, revealing that the awareness-raising campaign had a greater impact on stabilizing the children’s behaviour than on the adoption of sustainable pro-environmental behaviour.

Satisfaction et confort au travail. L’apport de la démarche implicative

Resume De nombreux travaux se sont interesses aux variables psycho-organisationnelles susceptibles de predire la satisfaction au travail mais peu se sont penches sur celles issues du champ de la psychologie environnementale. Notre recherche se propose de reperer l’impact de variables evaluant le confort au travail en les confrontant a des variables organisationnelles dont les liens avec la satisfaction au travail sont actuellement bien connus et d’ordonner les relations entre ces variables dans une sequence quasi-implicative en se basant sur une analyse statistique implicative. Menee aupres de 105 employes du secteur bancaire, elle confirme notre modele theorique en montrant que la satisfaction au travail est implicativement expliquee par les trois autres variables ((Confort/Fonctionnalite => Controle/privacite) => Attachement_au_lieu_de_travail) => satisfaction_au_travail.

Psychosocial variables related to the international professional mobility of Congolese and Moroccan executives

Taking a sociocognitive approach, the aims of our research were to identify the links between Psychosocial variables and the international professional mobility of Moroccan and Congolese executives, and to examine the extent to which this desire can be explained by a hypothetical model, setting the explanatory psychosocial variables and the explained variable in a nomological space. The investigation was conducted through a set of questionnaires completed by 63 Congolese and 128 Moroccan executives. The results identify the executives who are satisfied with their present career and their life in general and who believe in the advantages of a national career, and those who express a desire for change and believe in the advantages of an international career. The former aspire to a sedentary life, while the latter show a tendency towards mobility. The discussion underlines the relevance of this sociocognitive approach and method based on nomological space to explain these results. It also raises management issues regarding the international mobility of African executives in a context of accelerated globalization.