Patrick Valéau

Toward a Reassessment of the Role of Rank-and-File Stakeholders in Nonprofit Organizations

This study examines the relationships between the influence of different stakeholders and mission-based strategic planning, community development, and economic effectiveness. Our purpose is to highlight the unique and incremental contribution of rank-and-file stakeholders, that is, stakeholders without any specific grade or status, such as nonboard volunteers or beneficiaries. We analyze reported data from 227 nonprofit organizations (NPOs) using structural equation modeling and bootstrap mediation analysis. Our results show that when rank-and-file stakeholders manage to remain influential, strategic planning tends to be more directly rooted in the mission, which contributes to both perceived community and economic effectiveness. These results are discussed with regard to the utility, legitimacy, and urgency of more direct forms of democratic governance giving rank-and-file stakeholders the power to contribute to mission-based strategic planning.

The management of professional employees: linking progressive HRM practices, cognitive orientations and organizational citizenship behavior

Abstract The present research examines the relationships between progressive HRM practices and the organizational citizenship behaviors (OCB) of professional employees. Drawing on recent HRM literature, our research model includes a perceived organizational support (POS)-commitment mediation hypothesis. Taking into account previous studies on professional employees, a job satisfaction-commitment pathway is also integrated. We tested both mediational pathways as part of a single structural equation model using a sample of 329 professional employees. Our results show that the relationship between recognition and OCB is mediated by the POS-commitment pathway, while the relationships between fairness of rewards, skills development and OCB are mediated by the job satisfaction-commitment pathway. The specificities of the HRM of professional employees related to their multiple cognitive orientations are discussed.

Les effets des activités auto-descriptives sur la clarté du concept de soi : le rôle modérateur des variables sociodémographiques

Resume Cette recherche questionne la possibilite d’induire le developpement de la clarte du concept de soi (CCS) au moyen d’activites auto-descriptives. Le dispositif test-retest mis en place comprenait un groupe neutre (aucune activite intermediaire, n=40), un groupe de controle (activite logico-cognitive, n=47) et un groupe experimental (activite auto-descriptive, n=97). Les resultats montrent que l’activite auto- descriptive genere les effets les plus importants, mais que ces derniers sont plus marques pour les individus presentant un faible niveau de CCS, ceux-ci appartenant generalement aux categories sociodemographiques les moins valorisees. Nous interpretons ces processus en termes de « remediation » et explorons les possibilites de mesurer et de developper en ces termes les apports des bilans de competences.