À la recherche de l’organisation capacitante: quelle part de liberté dans le travail salarié ?

Josiane Véro () and Bénédicte Zimmermann ()
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Josiane Véro: CEREQ - Centre d'études et de recherches sur les qualifications - ministère de l'Emploi, cohésion sociale et logement - M.E.N.E.S.R. - Ministère de l'Education nationale, de l’Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche, LEST - Laboratoire d'Economie et de Sociologie du Travail - AMU - Aix Marseille Université - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Bénédicte Zimmermann: EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Centre Georg Simmel - EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: Individual agency is celebrated in France by public policies and companies, as a means of reshaping work and to fulfill requirements of freedom and responsibility. This paper raises the issue of the tools and the framework making it possible to empirically inquiry into employees' freedom to act. The conceptualization of freedom as capability, in line with Amartya Sen's approach, offers a basis to this end. Because a person's capability is not only dependent upon personal qualities but also involves environmental conditions at large, organizational conditions need to be questioned for the analysis of working capabilities. Can a company be capability-friendly? Characterizing organizations through the lens of the capability approach can at least help sketch a moral ideal and provide a normative yardstick against which to assess companies' practices. A capability-friendly company would then present the following features: it would be a pluralist, participatory, developing, fair and responsible organization.

Keywords: Capability; company; capability-friendly organisation; continuing vocational training; freedom; responsibility; Socio-Economie; responsabilité; organisation capacitante; liberté; formation continue; entreprise; Capacité d’agir (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018-07-06
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Published in Savoirs : Revue internationale de recherches en éducation et formation des adultes, 2018, Formation et professionnalisation des ingénieurs : articulations et tensions, 47 (2), pp.131-150. ⟨10.3917/savo.047.0131⟩

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DOI: 10.3917/savo.047.0131

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