Skill-induced Mobilization at Work: a Study of an Activist Group

Fabien Hildwein ()

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Abstract: This article explores the way in which skills may mobilize individuals within an organization. To that end, it considers skills rather as mobilizing resources for individuals than strategic resources for the firm. This suggests other ways through which skills can contribute to the firm and HR policies. The theoretical framework of resource mobilization, coming from the sociology of social movements, provides explanations in this regard. The empiric part is based upon a twelve-month ethnographic work among the feminist activist group "La Barbe". This part explores how an organization with few resources can mobilize and retain its members by providing skills that are coherent with their individual paths (especially the search for personal emancipation). Recommendations and the limits for human resources management are discussed to conclude, in particular, on the mobilization of talents.

Date: 2017
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Published in RIMHE : Revue Interdisciplinaire Management, Homme(s) & Entreprise, 2017

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