The macroeconomic effects of unemployment benefits: a theoretical approach.

Summary In the current context of the development of part-time work, the clear desire to engage in part-time work raises questions on the part of managers about the quality of the link between the employee and the company that employs him. The problematic of this research lies in the analysis of the influence of part-time work on organizational commitment. The conceptual development traces the state of knowledge on the context of the development of part-time work, the comparison of attitudes and behaviors of part-timers and full-timers, the change in attitudes and behaviors following a work time arrangement, the work-out relationship and the effects of organizational support policies on organizational commitment. The experimental empirical research of the before-and-after type (119 employees) proposes an analysis of the motivation and involvement profiles before the switch to part-time work and of the changes that occurred over the period, as well as numerous relationships of the variables of attitude change. On the one hand, this study offers a two-period validation of scales never before used in France. The main methodological contribution is the use of a method of synthetic measurement of change, as well as a confirmatory factorial analysis procedure of change. On the other hand, this research contributes to a better knowledge of the motivations towards part-time work, of their follow-up and of their effects on organizational commitment. It assesses the mechanisms and process of change in involvement by analyzing numerous relationships of attitudinal change variables.