Employability and Industrial Mutations - Between Individual Trajectories and Organizational Strategic Planning, Volume 4

Industrial, economic and organizational mutations are creating a transformation in employment, skills and work. Developing the employability of the workforce is one response to these challenges. However, the link between mutations and employability is not obvious: it must be constructed and implemented in order to ensure that employees are able to reach satisfying professional situations.
 
Employability and Industrial Mutations presents a definition of employability and the associated challenges for public authorities, organizations and employees: managing unemployment, successful change and employee empowerment. It then examines several worker profiles to better understand what "being employable" means. It goes on to analyze several examples of management systems for employability at different stages of an individual's career, and finally explores the issue of developing or maintaining employability in real-life situations and contexts.
 
This book brings together researchers and practitioners from a range of different fields in order to shed light on the complex relationship between mutations and employability.

List of contents

Foreword by Patrick Gilbert xiii
Patrick GILBERT
 
Foreword by IPSI xv
Xavier LE COQ, Jacques LAUVERGNE and Emmanuelle CHAPELIER
 
Introduction xix
Florent NOËL
 
Part 1 Towards a General Theory of Employability 1
 
Introduction to Part 1 3
Bernard GAZIER
 
Chapter 1. Employability and Public Policy: A Century-long Learning Process and Unfinished Process 7
Bernard GAZIER
 
1.1. One hundred years of trial and error between the individual and the collective: seven operational definitions of employability 8
 
1.1.1. Seven versions in three waves during the 20th century 8
 
1.1.2. From static to dynamic and from unilateral to interactive 12
 
1.2. Current tensions and recompositions 13
 
1.2.1. "Profiling", from contextual calibration to negotiated interaction 13
 
1.2.2. Employability between individual capacity and collective construction 14
 
1.3. Conclusion 16
 
1.4. References 17
 
Chapter 2. Employability as a Managerial Imperative? 19
Florent NOËL and Géraldine SCHMIDT
 
2.1. Employability and change: the migration of a concept 20
 
2.1.1. Employability, a matter of public policy 21
 
2.1.2. Employability as an employer's responsibility in managing restructuring 21
 
2.1.3. Employability as an individual responsibility 21
 
2.1.4. Employability for the development of organizations and individuals? 22
 
2.2. Employability management practices 25
 
2.2.1. Assessing employability 25
 
2.2.2. Developing employability 27
 
2.3. Conclusion 29
 
2.4. References 31
 
Chapter 3. Capability-based Employability: A Total Organizational Fact 33
Bénédicte ZIMMERMANN
 
3.1. Employability: being able and enabled to 35
 
3.1.1. Qualification, skills and competence: what it means to be capable 36
 
3.1.2. Being able to: a condition for the exercise of responsibility 37
 
3.2. Skill-based employability, capability-based employability 39
 
3.2.1. Employability based on skill maintenance 39
 
3.2.2. Employability based on skill development 39
 
3.2.3. Employability based on capability 40
 
3.3. A total organizational fact 40
 
3.4. The five traits of the capability-enhancing organization 42
 
3.5. Conclusion 44
 
3.6. References 45
 
Part 2. Employability and Individual Trajectories 47
 
Introduction to Part 2 49
Pauline dE BECDELIÈVRE
 
Chapter 4. The "Unemployable": Different Figures, Between Societal Construction and Unconscious Meanings 53
Raymonde FERRANDI
 
4.1. People who are not allowed to work 54
 
4.1.1. Migrants 54
 
4.1.2. Persons reaching the age limit 54
 
4.1.3. People who are still off work or declared unfit by the occupational physician 55
 
4.2. Discriminated audiences 55
 
4.2.1. Situations of discrimination in the texts 56
 
4.2.2. Situations on the ground often ignored or denied 56
 
4.3. Audiences for cognitive remediation 58
 
4.3.1. From the children of the Shoah to the young people of the "neighborhoods" 58
 
4.3.2. Interest and limits of the analysis in terms of "deprivation" 59
 
4.4. People who "suffer" in social work through their work 60
 
4.4.1. The unconscious and the law of repetition - the transference 60
 
4.4.2. Transfer to the social scene and work 61
 
4.4.3. The "opportunities" offered by the context 62
 
4.4.4. A perpetual misunderstanding 62
 
4.5. The generation of refusal 63
 
4.5.1. A self-definition that no longer necessarily involves work 63
 
4.5.2. The ref

About the author

Florent Noel is a Professor at IAE Paris - Sorbonne Business School, France, where he is responsible for the HR and CSR master's degree and the M.A.I. (Mutations, Anticipation and Innovation) chair. His research focuses on employment management in companies and, more broadly, on restructuring practices.

Geraldine Schmidt is a Professor at IAE Paris - Sorbonne Business School, France, and a member of the M.A.I. chair. Her research focuses on restructuring practices in companies and SSE organizations, and the relationship between art and management.

Summary

Industrial, economic and organizational mutations are creating a transformation in employment, skills and work. Developing the employability of the workforce is one response to these challenges. However, the link between mutations and employability is not obvious: it must be constructed and implemented in order to ensure that employees are able to reach satisfying professional situations.

Employability and Industrial Mutations presents a definition of employability and the associated challenges for public authorities, organizations and employees: managing unemployment, successful change and employee empowerment. It then examines several worker profiles to better understand what "being employable" means. It goes on to analyze several examples of management systems for employability at different stages of an individual's career, and finally explores the issue of developing or maintaining employability in real-life situations and contexts.

This book brings together researchers and practitioners from a range of different fields in order to shed light on the complex relationship between mutations and employability.

Product details

• Authors: F Noel, Florent Noel, Geraldine Schmidt
• Assisted by: Florent Noel (Editor), Schmidt (Editor), Geraldine Schmidt (Editor)
• Publisher: Wiley & Sons
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2022
• EAN: 9781786307439
• ISBN: 978-1-78630-743-9
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 163 mm x 239 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 532 g
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Management; Management, Business & management, Wirtschaft u. Management, Spezialthemen Wirtschaft u. Management, Business & Management Special Topics, Small Business & Entrepreneurship, Klein- u. mittelständische Unternehmen u. Existenzgründung, Innovations- u. Kreativitätsmanagement, Creativity & Innovation Management