Title: Measure of mobilisation at work: a management by equity: a new philosophy for leadership in public sector organisations

Authors: Olivier Keramidas

Addresses: CESMAP, CEROG Public Management Institute/IAE of Aix-en-Provence, University Paul Cezanne, Aix-Marseille III, 21, rue Gaston de Saporta, Aix-en-Provence 13100, France

Abstract: Numerous concepts try to explain the performance in organisations. From motivation to implication by the way of satisfaction... the question now is: does this really help managers in their decision-making? The concept of mobilisation of staff indicates direct observable processes, taking into account the collective dynamics of the groups. This concept of mobilisation, for an efficient management, is measurable at the level of the organisation, and represents, for the managers of local authorities, a real tool of analysis, which help them in their decision-making. The concept of equity is closely connected to the notion of public decision, in an abstract frame centred on ethics into the organisations. Numerous works state factors of the produced equity and strong links existing between the feeling of equity and human resources management. We focus on its approach to understand how this notion is correlated in the process of staff mobilisation, in public organisations, in order to explain behaviour and performance of individuals at work.

Keywords: mobilisation at work; management by equity; decision processes; management philosophy; management theory; public sector; leadership; decision making; staff mobilisation; employee mobilisation; local authorities; human resource management; HRM; employee motivation.

DOI: 10.1504/IJHRDM.2005.006323

International Journal of Human Resources Development and Management, 2005 Vol.5 No.2, pp.164 - 179

Published online: 20 Feb 2005 *

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