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Nouvelles formes d’engagement dans le travail : Y-a-t-il une « spécificité jeune » ?

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  • Mircea Vultur
  • Daniel Mercure
  • Charles Fleury

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Do young people today maintain a unique relationship with work? Do they promote new forms of engagement with work, in contrast to those pursued by previous generations? In this article, we aim to answer these questions based on the results of a questionnaire-based study involving a thousand Quebec workers. The analysis focuses on three key dimensions of on-the-job engagement among young people: the centrality of work, its main purpose, and attitudes toward managerial norms. Ultimately, we find no major discrepancies between younger workers and their older counterparts with regard to these three dimensions of engagement. However, younger workers do place less importance on work than their elders, despite being more committed to achieving recognition and self-fulfillment. Young people are also more attached to the norms underlying the new model of production, especially through their widespread acceptance of performance-based remuneration and of individual responsibility for job security and career development. Les jeunes contemporains entretiennent-ils un rapport spécifique au travail ? Sont ils les vecteurs de nouvelles formes d’engagement dans l’activité productive, différentes de celles des anciennes générations ? Pour répondre à ces questions, à partir d’une enquête par questionnaire auprès de mille travailleurs québécois, nous analysons dans cet article trois dimensions essentielles de l’engagement des jeunes au travail : la centralité du travail, sa finalité principale et les attitudes à l’égard des normes managériales. Les résultats des analyses montrent qu’il n’y a pas de hiatus profond entre les jeunes travailleurs et les plus âgés en ce qui a trait aux trois dimensions de l’engagement. Cependant, les jeunes travailleurs accordent une moins grande importance au travail que les plus âgés, tout en étant en plus forte quête de reconnaissance et de réalisation personnelle. On constate également une adhésion plus forte des jeunes aux normes du nouveau modèle productif, notamment l’acceptation en grande proportion de la rémunération au rendement et de la responsabilité individuelle en matière de sécurité d’emploi et d’avenir professionnel.

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  • Mircea Vultur & Daniel Mercure & Charles Fleury, 2020. "Nouvelles formes d’engagement dans le travail : Y-a-t-il une « spécificité jeune » ?," CIRANO Working Papers 2020s-04, CIRANO.
  • Handle: RePEc:cir:cirwor:2020s-04
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