RT 25 Travail, organisations, emplois |
Responsable(s) : Jean Pierre Durand Descriptif :
Le RT 25, fondé lors le la création de l'AFS, se veut généraliste dans le champ de la sociologie du travail — dans son acceptation la plus large. Son appellation “Travail, organisations, emploi” marque le souhait de traiter à la fois du travail (soit aussi des activités de travail) et de l’emploi.
Bureau : François Aballéa, Olivier Cousin, Marnix Dressen, Jean-Pierre Durand, Gaëtan Flocco, Sabine Fortino, William Gasparini, Mihai Dinu Gheorghiu, Lionel Jacquot, Laïla Salah-Eddine, Sacha Leduc, Marie-Christine Le Floch, Danièle Linhart, Frédéric Moatty, Clément Ruffier, Guillaume Tiffon. Contact : Jean-Pierre Durand Site internet : pas de site internet RT 25 : Work, Organizations, Employment
Coordinating : Jean Pierre Durand RT 25 Travail, Organisations, Emplois Innovation dans le travail et travail d’innovation Quelle est la place de la création et de l'innovation dans le champ du travail et de l’emploi ? Les modèles standard de la diffusion de l’innovation des produits et des technologies se sont renouvelés en intégrant dans leur processus de structuration les usages ainsi que les imaginaires des concepteurs et des utilisateurs. Dans les organisations, la profusion des outils de gestion introduits par les managers a conduit à brouiller la frontière entre les innovations et un mouvement d’adaptation-imitation permanent, d’autant que les transformations se superposent, se télescopent et restent souvent inabouties. Au niveau de l’activité, les processus d’innovation résultent du travail des acteurs qui à la fois s’approprient et mettent en œuvre l’innovation mais aussi résistent, la contournent, la détournent, voire la transforment en y réinjectant leur visées propres. Au-delà de leur définition de l’innovation, les auteurs sont donc invités à étudier sa mise en œuvre et les transformations du travail concomitantes. Le premier axe traite plutôt du niveau global de construction et d’évolution des marchés. Les deux axes suivants portent sur les processus managériaux d’innovation et sur les réponses des salariés, eux-mêmes acteurs innovants (processus descendants et ascendants de l’innovation). Le quatrième axe, transversal, s’intéresse plus particulièrement aux conditions et aux acteurs de l’innovation. 1 - La fabrique de l’innovation 2 - Le travail à l’épreuve de l’innovation 3 - L’innovation à l’épreuve du travail 4 - Milieux, dispositifs et acteurs de l’innovation ***** Les propositions (2000 signes au maximum) sont à adresser à Jean-Pierre Durand (jpd.duran@gmail.com), à Frédéric Moatty (Frederic.Moatty@cee-recherche.fr) et à François Aballéa (aballea@wanadoo.fr) avant le 5 janvier 2011. Les auteurs seront avisés de l’acceptation par le RT 25 en février et devront adresser leur papier avant le 15 mai 2011. Les auteurs préciseront l’axe dans lequel ils s’inscrivent. Ces propositions, comme les textes définitifs, devront s’attacher à traiter de la création et/ou de l’innovation, en vue de la publication des meilleurs papiers en un ouvrage. *** RT 25 Work, Organisations, Employment Innovation in labour and innovation of labour What role do creation and innovation play in the field of labour and employment? Standard product and technology innovation diffusion models have rejuvenated ever since they started incorporating designers and users’ uses and imaginary into their structuring processes. The profusion of manager-introduced tools in organisations has blurred the borders between innovation and the ongoing adaptation-imitation movement, all the more so given the way in which transformations have been juxtaposed and collided even as they often remain incomplete. At an activity level, innovation processes result from the work being done by actors who both appropriate and implement innovation but also resist, circumvent, re-orient and and even transform it through the personal ambitions they inject into it. Regardless of how innovation is defined, however, authors will be asked to study its implementation and the concomitant transformation of labour. Lastly, labour in its current form has been transformed following a long series of innovations, although there is a question whether this simply refers to a new avatar of production relationships that have remained unchanged for a surprisingly long period of time, or else to deep-seated changes in social phenomena that can only be analysed accurately over the long term. The first sector refers mainly to the global level where markets are constructed and evolve. The next two refer to managerial innovation processes together with responses from employees, who are themselves innovation actors (e.g. descending and ascending innovation processes). The fourth sector, which is transversal in nature, focuses more specifically on innovation conditions and actors. 1 – Manufacturing innovation 2 – Labour in the light of innovation For 20 years now, the world of business (and more generally of organisations) has been under the influence of a multitude of innovations that were either initiated locally or imported from elsewhere. Some were new tools for managing production processes, human resources and socio-professional relationships, while others involved new organisational systems. Based on a case analysis, two kinds of questions can be asked at this level: a) How were these innovations produced or introduced; what drove them; what negotiation procedures did they provoke; what resistence did they encounter; how were they appropriated, etc.? and b) What impact did they have on socio-professional relationships: internal social relationships or collective work relationships; hierarchical relationships; collective identities, etc. ? 3 - Innovation in the light of labour Since the beginning, the sociology of labour has highlighted employees’ inventiveness or creativity. Yet this has not always been recognised by senior management, either because employees wanted it to remain secret, or else because management opposed is. This explains the lack of a direct link between this factor and innovations. Two other questions can be raised at this level: a) Under what conditions will a bottom-up initiative be recognised and institutionalised by senior management ? Does this refer to specific procédures, the development of a social climate that is conducive to innovation, or the advent of a certain type of internal social relationships? b) What are the effects of recognising this creativity or refusing its institutionalisation via socio-professional relationships: a fragilisation or a reinforcement of groups, a relaxation of norms or a subjective mobilisation of employees? Questions might also be raised regarding the innovations carried out by labour organisations: how do they innovate, in what areas and how do these innovations affect professional relationships? 4 – Innovation environments, systems and actors As for innovation actors, what are their positions and trajectories (continuity or rupture) and what impact does this have the innovating experience? Are we dealing with strategies that are distinctive in terms of other members of one’s peer group or else in terms of competitor groups? Is the purpose to reduce the gaps between positions, dispositions and aspirations, or paradoxically to return to unfavourable conditions within an exclusion situation ? ***** Proposals (each containing a maximum of 2,000 characters) should be sent to Jean-Pierre Durand (jpd.duran@gmail.com), Frédéric Moatty (Frederic.Moatty@cee-recherche.fr) and François Aballéa (aballea@wanadoo.fr) before 5 January 2011. Authors will be advised of RT 25’s acceptance in February and should submit their paper before 15 May 2011. Authors should also specify the sector of which they are part. These proposals – like the final texts – must pertain to start-up and/or innovation activities. Note that the best papers are meant to be published in a compilation text.
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