VOLUNTEERS, MANAGERS AND EMPLOYEES FACING THE CHALLENGE OF CHANGE IN A FRENCH FAMILY ASSOCIATION

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Abstract During the last fifty years, many theories and works have dealt with the subject of organisational change. However, very few studies have been devoted to the continuous succession of changes, especially in the voluntary sector. The following analysis focuses on the way the actors in the voluntary field perceive these successive changes. Is the perception identical for the directors, the management team and the employees? Is the traditional division between managers and employees also observed within voluntary management? We will answer these questions by studying two successive changes: the reduction in working time (Aubry Laws 1998 and 2000), followed by a change of the collective agreement (convention collective) in a French family association.