Title: An innovative project for equity and mobilisation at work? The case of IRIS project in a French territorial civil service

Authors: Johanna Habib, Olivier Keramidas

Addresses: CESMAP – Public management Institute, University of Paul Cezanne, Aix-Marseille III, 21 rue Gaston de Saporta, 13100 Aix-en-Provence, France. ' CESMAP – Public management Institute, University of Paul Cezanne, Aix-Marseille III, 21 rue Gaston de Saporta, 13100 Aix-en-Provence, France

Abstract: Our main goal is to analyse the concept of equity and its fluctuations during an innovation process, the IRIS project. We analyse and evaluate, by the way of a qualitative methodology, the project impact on the agents| feeling of equity and therefore on their mobilisation level. The results show that the agents| implication in the innovation project proceeds in two distinct phases. One, purely innovative, highlights a feeling of mobilisation in the creative phase that favours a feeling of equity or even of up-equity; and another, a phase of work stabilisation oriented comes unlike with a feeling of sub-equity.

Keywords: equity; innovation; motivation; mobilisation; qualitative research methodology; human resource management; organisational change.

DOI: 10.1504/IJHRDM.2007.012281

International Journal of Human Resources Development and Management, 2007 Vol.7 No.1, pp.4 - 19

Published online: 02 Feb 2007 *

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