The Beginnings of the Dissemination of Information to Employees: Award Presentation Speeches in Three French Steel Companies [1934-1977]

Les prémices de la diffusion d'information aux salaries. Les discours des médailles du travail chez trois sidérurgistes français (1934-1977)

Mathieu Floquet and Pierre Labardin ()
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Mathieu Floquet: CEREFIGE - Centre Européen de Recherche en Economie Financière et Gestion des Entreprises - UL - Université de Lorraine
Pierre Labardin: DRM - Dauphine Recherches en Management - Université Paris Dauphine-PSL - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, DRM MOST - DRM - Dauphine Recherches en Management - Université Paris Dauphine-PSL - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: The disclosure of information to workers can take several forms (company journal, meeting with shop stewards, etc). This paper is about a form rarely studied: the boss's speech at the work medal ceremony. These medals were created by the ministry of commerce in France in 1886. The success of this institution explains why these ceremonies have became a professional rite. We study the speeches of three French steel companies between 1934 and 1977. A statistical analysis of these speeches shows the presence of words characteristic of a paternalistic management, but it has changed. Indeed, it represented 40% of the speech between 1934 and 1942 but only 19% between 1960 and 1978. Conversely, the number of words about the economic situation of the companies increased. They are nearly absent in the first period but represent 80% of words used between 1960 and 1978.

Keywords: diffusion d'information aux salariés; histoire; médailles du travail (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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Published in Economies et Sociétés, Série KF, Entreprises et Finance, 2013, 47 (8), pp.1287 - 1314

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