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The Empowerment of Employees through the Prism of Job Training: The Unfulfilled Promises of Management Discourse
[El poder de acción de los asalariados bajo el prisma de la formación: las promesas no respetadas de una doctrina empresarial]

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  • Coralie Perez

    (CES - Centre d'économie de la Sorbonne - UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

Abstract

La volonté affichée de donner des capacités d'agir aux salariés s'incarne dans le concept d'" habilitation " (empowerment). Cet article examine comment la formation, en tant que politique conçue et mise en oeuvre par les directions, perçue et vécue par les salariés, participe de leur habilitation en accroissant leur pouvoir d'agir. Le terrain mobilisé est une enquête monographique conduite auprès d'une entreprise de l'agro-alimentaire, filiale française d'un groupe américain, qui a érigé l'habilitation en doctrine managériale. Mise à l'épreuve critique de l'habilitation, la formation révèle les tensions dont cette doctrine est porteuse, au niveau organisationnel comme individuel. Ainsi, dans un régime de gouvernance actionnariale, où la prégnance des objectifs de rentabilité financière s'impose à tous les salariés et où leur représentation collective est faible voire inexistante, la politique d'habilitation ne parvient pas à concrétiser ses ambitions. Elle n'est pas pour autant dépourvue d'effets.

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  • Coralie Perez, 2014. "The Empowerment of Employees through the Prism of Job Training: The Unfulfilled Promises of Management Discourse [El poder de acción de los asalariados bajo el prisma de la formación: las promesas ," Université Paris1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (Post-Print and Working Papers) halshs-00956173, HAL.
  • Handle: RePEc:hal:cesptp:halshs-00956173
    DOI: 10.7202/1024205ar
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