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1955.More information
Professors in Quebec universities are generally committed to their work. However, from 20 to 25% of them revealed having experienced psychological problems related to their work conditions. How can we identify the factors in a professional career that enhance or compromise mental health and commitment? How can we prevent mental health problems or cure them? To answer these questions and gain access to the experiences behind the available statistics, interviews were conducted with 18 groups of faculty members who accepted to lift the veil on their situations. The article presents a portion of the data emerging from this study, paying particular attention to research and its excesses. Fatigue, disillusion, and distress were experienced when the researchers had to conform to a single performance model and to the senseless productivity demands that are imposed on them.
Keywords: stress professionnel, détresse psychologique, université, corps professoral, évaluation de la recherche, occupational stress, psychological distress, university academic staff, research evaluation, estrés laboral, angustia psicológica, universidad, cuerpo profesoral, evaluación de la investigación
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1956.More information
Within the context of the geography of globalization, it seems interesting to study conference tourism, an activity which is essentially based on human, economic, scientific and cultural flows. But, due to many problems linked to terminology and the lack of coherent statistics protocols, the subject is a rather delicate one. This paper proposes, on one hand, to clarify definitions and terminology, as well as to characterize sources of information. On the other hand, we will examine the distribution of international meetings in order both to reveal continental and state dynamics and to analyze the network of cities Worldwide.
Keywords: tourisme, congrès, réunions, méthodologie, terminologie, statistiques, villes, mondialisation, tourism, conference, methodology, terminology, statistics, cities, globalization
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1959.More information
This article examines the extent to which the right to liberty, as guaranteed under section 7 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, provides protection to dependant workers, de facto subjected to forms of unfree labour. The analysis is focussed on the live-in requirement, acting as a specific mechanism of liberty deprivation. The authors argue that following a consistent case law tendency of the Supreme Court, the right to liberty of the person does not protect the right to work or the right to employment, but it does not preclude certain provisions of labour rights (the regulation of the relations between workers and employers) from its scope of protection. In this regard, the right to not be submitted to forced labour, to quit a job and an employer, to not live in the house or on the property of the employer and to be paid for all hours worked, notably, could be protected under section 7 of the Charter. The live-in requirement that is de facto imposed upon farm workers and domestic workers could therefore be challenged on the basis of the right to liberty.
Keywords: Droit à la liberté, travail non libre, obligation de résidence, droit du travail, Programme des aides familiales (PAF), Programme des travailleurs agricoles saisonniers (PTAS), Programme des travailleurs étrangers temporaires (PTET), Right to liberty, unfree labour, live-in requirement, right to work, caregiver program (LICP), domestic workers, Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program (SAWP), Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP)
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1960.More information
This work presents our thoughts on a new definition of the research object at the heart of the research in entrepreneurship. We therefore propose a conceptual model and a key concept which is the “entrepreneurial situation”. An “entrepreneurial situation” is any situation which links a strongly committed individual (use of vital resources: time, money, energy, etc.) to an entrepreneurial action (decisions, behaviours, tasks, etc.) and a project or an organisation. One of the characteristics, or even specificity of our perspective is that we are not looking at just an actor, individual or group, an organisation or company, but rather a subject-object, or individual-project, individual-organisation couple. This couple can not be separated in any scientific approach (observation, analysis) of an “entrepreneurial situation”. We therefore think that an “entrepreneurial situation” can be characterised by a subject-object conjunction, and by a level of proximity or distancing index between the two elements. Under such conditions, an “entrepreneurial situation” could be qualified by the “measuring” of a distance or proximity between subject and object involved in it. The object of research at the heart of entrepreneurship corresponds, we feel, to these “entrepreneurial situations” which need describing, explaining and including in their dynamism and evolution, so that from the scientific knowledge produced, the actions of entrepreneurs and accompanying support structures can be made easier and more efficient.
Keywords: Recherche en entrepreneuriat, Processus entrepreneurial, Situation entrepreneuriale