Projects
Projects FNS
Performance-Information Use in Switzerland: Do Organizational Climate and Cooperation Among Actors Matter?
2019 - 2023 (48 mois)
Applicant : Giauque David
This research is centered on specifying and testing a research model that links whether and how performance-information use is created, to how it is used. Two drivers in the model are organizational climate and cooperation among actors-namely, how they relate to each other, and the extent to which these three groups see their working relationships as being cooperative or not.The main objectives of this research are linked to two important research questions. The first one deals with the relationships among council members, high civil servants, and field civil
servants, and the extent to which these relationships are grounded on a positive climate and cooperative behaviors. The second one is related to the drivers and barriers of performance-information use at the local government level. Previous scientific literature has indicated that the relationships among actors are important to consider when explaining the development and use of performance information in public organizations. Using a mixed methods approach, we will gather quantitative as well as qualitative data to answer the research questions. In the first step, we will compile a data set via a structured survey of elected officials, high civil servants, and field civil servants in samples of Swiss municipalities. This data set will allow us to conduct statistical analyses to estimate the relationships among local government performance-information use and the explanatory variables in the research model. To better understand the mechanisms underlying the causal relationships among the variables, we will proceed with a case study research as well as with the statistical first phase. Thus, the second phase of this research will include a component that uses qualitative case study methods to elaborate on behavioral models of local-government performance-information use in selected local governments to validate the survey-based perceptions and modelbased
linkages.
Professionalisation of sports federations in Switzerland: origins, forms and consequences
2014 - 2018 (48 mois)
Applicant : Emmanuel Bayle
Other partners : Siegfried Nagel et David Giauque
International, national federations and their clubs are non profit organisations whith social and com-mercial activities. They are key actors in the relationships within the sports system as well as with the world outside the system : state, sponsors, media. They are facing actually great challenges : growing competition in top-level sports, the democratisation of sports with "sports for all" and sports as the answer to social problems (integration, education, health, unemployment, etc.). In this context, profes-sionalising sports organisations seems to be an appropriate strategy to solve these challenges and cur-rent problems. In the research project, we define the professionalisation of sports organisations as an organisational process leading towards organizational rationalisation, efficiency and project manage-ment. The recruitment of paid staff in 82 national sports federations in charge of 20 000 clubs is ex-panding rapidly in Switzerland (more than 10% in the last 6 years). This potential for growth in paid staff is also very important for most of the international federations whith headquarters in Switzerland. Within the sport federations, this has led to a profound organizational change, characterized by includ-ing the strengthening of institutional management and the implementation of efficiency-based man-agement instruments in the sport organization. That's why the purpose of the research project is to understand modalities, consequences of professionalisation of national and international sport govern-ing bodies in Switzerland and their dynamics notably during the last decade. Most former researches, mainly in anglo-saxon countries, have not establish a global comprehension and theory about how sport organisations and non-profit organisations professionnalise and with which consequences. That's why, we are interested in the following main research questions:
1) How do (sports non-profit) organisations professionalise? (origins and forms of professionalisa-tion)
2) What are the effects of professiona
Impact study of the new modes of management on the health and satisfaction at work of managers in the French-speaking Switzerland hospital environ
2011 - 2013 (24 mois)
Applicant : Véronique Haberey-Knuessi
Other partners : Jean-Luc Heeb et David Giauque
Is it possible to motivate agents with public service? Test of the public service motivation concept to the Swiss context
2007 - 2010 (36 mois)
Applicant : David Giauque
Other partners : Frédéric Varone et Adrian Ritz
Others projects
Motivating employees and volunteers of International Organizations: Do values matter?
2010 - 2012 (24 mois)
grant-giving organisation : Swiss Network for International Studies (SNIS) (Switzerland)
Applicant : David Giauque
Other partners : Frédéric Varone
Contracts and Mandates
Audit of the office cantonal de l'inspection et des relations du travail
2017 - 2018
grant-giving organisation : Etat de Genève (Switzerland)
Applicant : David Giauque
Assessment of BREF projects funded by the Gebert Rüf Stiftung
2011 - 2012
grant-giving organisation : Gebert Rüf Stiftung (Switzerland)
Applicant : David Giauque
Other partners : Karl Weber
Image of the City of Fribourg by its inhabitants
2010 - 2010
grant-giving organisation : Ville de Fribourg (Switzerland)
Applicant : Laurent Houmard et Jean-Christophe Zuchuat (HEG-Fribourg)
Other partners : David Giauque (UNIL) et Nicolas Babey (HEG-Neuchâtel)
