From workers’ capabilities for professional
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Description: From workers capabilities for professional development to capabilityenhancing organizations Revisiting the Capright project ten years later Bénédicte Zimmermann EHESS Paris and Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin HDCA Webinar Thematic group on
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From workers’ capabilities for professional development to capability-enhancing organizations Revisiting the Capright project ten years later Bénédicte Zimmermann EHESS, Paris and Wissenschaftskolleg, Berlin HDCA Webinar, Thematic group on Work and Employment, 21 April 2021 The Capright Project Resources, rights and capabilities: in search of social foundations for Europe Integrated project n°028549 Duration: 48 months : 2007-2010 Project Coordinator: R. SALAIS Continuation of the Eurocap Project: Social dialogue, employment and territories. Towards a European politic of capabilities 2003-2006 (Coord R. Salais & R. Villeneuve) 26 Partners - 5 Research WPs WP 2: Theoretical framework: Social justice, resources and capabilities Coord: Bernard Friot (IDHE, Nanterre, France) & Robert Salais (IDHE, Cachan, France) WP 3: Individual working lives: Collective resources and employment quality Coord: Joan Miquel Verd (Autnonous university of Barcelona) & Josiane Vero (Céreq, Marseille, France) WP 4: Between nations and localities: Coordinating agencies and policy instruments Coord: Jean-Michel Bonvin (HES-SO, Switzerland) & Noel Whiteside (Univ. Warwick, England) WP 5: Social dialogue, rights and capabilities. New insights on the European public action Coord: Claude Didry (IDHE, Cachan, France) & Jean De Munck (UCL, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium) WP 6: Political perspectives on deliberative social democracy Coord: Mihai Jigau (ISE, Romania) Jürgen Kaedtler (SOFI, Germany) & Serafino Negrelli (Fondaziona Seveso, Italy) Professional Development as a cross-cutting axis Coord: Bénédicte Zimmermann (EHESS, Paris) Aims of WP3 Study the relationship between resources - conversion factors - capabilities in the sphere of employment and the workplace Assess their effects on individuals’ pathways, professional development and employability Analyse how lifelong learning, the labour market, employment and social protection policies combine in terms of personal experience Analyse whether resources available at key points are sufficient to sustain or extend capability when factors provoking risk or discontinuity impede personal and professional development Methodology: A multi-level approach A multi-level approach Individuals’ agency and scope of choice in professional development matters (biographical interviews) Organizational level (companies monographies) Identify what makes a capability-enhancing organization Examination of the opportunity and process aspects of capabilities Company policies and practices The opportunities and resources they provided The conversion processes involved in order to reach valuable achievements Institutional level (legislation, collective agreements, labour markets…) How institutional frameworks contribute to shape or impede professional development capabilities and outcomes A mixed-method analysis Quantitative inquiry Labour market analysis A typology of firms based on their training and human resource policies Qualitative inquiry Ethnographical fieldwork in companies Biographical interviews with workers from
