Employability and Industrial Mutations

Introduction to Part 4

In this fourth and final part, employability is approached from a “micro” perspective: employability is played out in work situations, where individuals and groups meet, where new tools and systems are tested in practice. The authors who contributed to this section sought to identify, within organizations, the virtuous principles that allow individuals to increase their personal employability, or on the contrary, the elements that can be blocking the progression in employability.

The different chapters highlight the mechanisms and actors that have a particular role to play in fostering an employability factory, at a micro level in the organization.

Certain actors play a specific role in this perspective. In Chapter 11, Emmanuelle Garbe and Jérémy Vignal look at the role of the HR function, and how it can contribute to maintaining/increasing the employability of operators in the industry subject to the irruption of digital technology. The authors have analyzed the consequences of digital transformations for such operators, and to this end have looked at a specific field, that of the company Safran Aircraft Engines (SAE) belonging to the aeronautics sector. They show that within the same population of operators affected by digital transformation, some will suffer from deskilling, others on the contrary will become “super operators” and others will take refuge in a third way, which they hope will protect them from the impact of digital transformation. In ...