Mélanie Lefrançois
Biographic Data
| ID | 4192889 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mélanie Lefrançois |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mélanie |
| FAMILY NAME | Lefrançois |
| SIGNATURE | LEFRANÇOIS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Université du Québec à Montréal |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9553-8695 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Social Workers' Collective Strategies to Mitigate the Impact of Organizational Constraints on Occupational Wellbeing
In Québec, social workers face numerous psychosocial risk factors affecting their psychological health, owing to staff shortages, work overload, and lack of recognition within the context of ongoing organizational restructuring. This study uses a systemic framework of individual and collective strategies to analyze those that enable social workers to manage the psychosocial risk factors they face and stay at work. In a qualitative exploratory stu…
Ironclad work overload
The role of labour union staffers-as-workers, crucial to the functioning of a union, involves a growing number of increasingly complex demands and requirements. A Quebec union concerned about the health of its members, union counsellors employed by another union, commissioned a study of a prominent psychosocial risk factor: work overload. A case study based on a mixed exploratory participatory design (qual→QUAN; 25 semi-structured interviews, 82 …
How to carry out participatory research that takes account of sex and gender issues
Observing Inequality
Bridging between academia and the workplace
Balancing work and family is a continuous and growing challenge, requiring carefully chosen coping strategies. In spite of the growing amount of research on work-family balance, successful, long term solutions are still not readily available to most workers who are trying to cope with the tensions involved in fulfilling both work and family roles. One possible explanation for this lack of translation of research findings in applied settings may l…
Time control, job execution and information access
Low-wage work and rigid atypical schedules reduce workers' leeway to manage their work/family interface, resulting in high levels of work/family conflict and in health issues. Faced with these inflexible conditions and a lack of formal work/family measures, workers rely primarily on informal practices where relational dynamics with coworkers and managers play an important role. However, low-wage workers with little schedule control are underrepre…
Time control, job execution and information access
Low-wage work and rigid atypical schedules reduce workers' leeway to manage their work/family interface, resulting in high levels of work/family conflict and in health issues. Faced with these inflexible conditions and a lack of formal work/family measures, workers rely primarily on informal practices where relational dynamics with coworkers and managers play an important role. However, low-wage workers with little schedule control are underrepre…
Bridging between academia and the workplace
Balancing work and family is a continuous and growing challenge, requiring carefully chosen coping strategies. In spite of the growing amount of research on work-family balance, successful, long term solutions are still not readily available to most workers who are trying to cope with the tensions involved in fulfilling both work and family roles. One possible explanation for this lack of translation of research findings in applied settings may l…
Time control, job execution and information access
Low-wage work and rigid atypical schedules reduce workers' leeway to manage their work/family interface, resulting in high levels of work/family conflict and in health issues. Faced with these inflexible conditions and a lack of formal work/family measures, workers rely primarily on informal practices where relational dynamics with coworkers and managers play an important role. However, low-wage workers with little schedule control are underrepre…
Bridging between academia and the workplace
Balancing work and family is a continuous and growing challenge, requiring carefully chosen coping strategies. In spite of the growing amount of research on work-family balance, successful, long term solutions are still not readily available to most workers who are trying to cope with the tensions involved in fulfilling both work and family roles. One possible explanation for this lack of translation of research findings in applied settings may l…
Observing Inequality
How to carry out participatory research that takes account of sex and gender issues
Social Workers' Collective Strategies to Mitigate the Impact of Organizational Constraints on Occupational Wellbeing
In Québec, social workers face numerous psychosocial risk factors affecting their psychological health, owing to staff shortages, work overload, and lack of recognition within the context of ongoing organizational restructuring. This study uses a systemic framework of individual and collective strategies to analyze those that enable social workers to manage the psychosocial risk factors they face and stay at work. In a qualitative exploratory stu…
Ironclad work overload
The role of labour union staffers-as-workers, crucial to the functioning of a union, involves a growing number of increasingly complex demands and requirements. A Quebec union concerned about the health of its members, union counsellors employed by another union, commissioned a study of a prominent psychosocial risk factor: work overload. A case study based on a mixed exploratory participatory design (qual→QUAN; 25 semi-structured interviews, 82 …
Psychology (5 works) · Engineering (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Workplace Health and Well-being (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Work (physics (3 works) · Applied Psychology (2 works) · Interpersonal communication (2 works) · Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior (2 works)