Intervenir dans l’entreprise pour soutenir la discussion sur le travail comme moyen de transformation

• Main Authors: Christophe Massot, Pascal Simonet
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Institut de Recherche Robert-Sauvé en Santé et en Sécurité du Travail (IRSST) 2017-01-01
• Series: Perspectives Interdisciplinaires sur le Travail et la Santé
• Subjects: intervention; activity clinic; management; CHSCT; psychology of work
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/pistes/5491

Many authors in the social sciences argue that the joint efforts needed to regulate work are currently diminishing. First, there seems to be a growing lack of discussion between managers and employees, and second, the CHSCT (France’s national OHS committee) is failing to create new discussion environments at work to rectify the situation. This paper presents an experimental, activity-clinic intervention used to encourage dialogical debates about work dilemmas. The conclusion emphasizes the proposition that these discussions can be reinstated on the condition that managers and employee representatives transform their own established activities and the CHSCT transforms its own mode of operation by getting involved in professional controversies.