thesis

Impacts des démarches de gestion des compétences sur les politiques de rémunération

Defense date:

Jan. 1, 1995

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Paris 1

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Abstract EN:

Taking into account abilities in wages policies is a key condition for the success of management policies based on abilities. This research work analyses the links between abilities management and compensation policies, and proposes five theoretical models for skill based pay systems. Moreover, compensation appears to be very relevant to call in question ideas and practices attached to abilities management identity and objectives. Among others, we evidence that the concept of ability is not as new as it is often said. This focus on the novelty feature of the concept leads to misunderstanding the authentical base of abilities management. In fact, this management tool should be used as to respond to the organisational increasing complexity. We hereby denounce the opposition between abilities and job. The job, whatever characteristics, from the most rigid to the most flexible, represents the foundation of abilities management and the compulsory reference for assessment in order to recognise abilities.

Abstract FR:

La reconnaissance des competences dans les pratiques de remuneration est une condition de la validite des demarches de gestion des competences. Partant de ce constat,la recherche analyse les modalites de la rencontre entre logique competence et systemes de remuneration, en proposant notamment cinq modeles theoriques de remuneration des competences. Par ailleurs, le champ de la remuneration s'est avere un revelateur efficace pour nuancer ou refuter un certain nombre de pratiques et lieux communs relatifs a l'identite et aux enjeux de la logique competence. En particulier, l'importance de l'elaboration conceptuelle autour de la notion de competence a pu etre relativisee. Le fait de parler d'un veritable renouvellement du concept peut devenir source de confusion, en masquant les fondements et l'identite du modele de la competence. Cette instrumentation de gestion doit etre envisagee comme une forme de reponse a un processus de complexification organisationnelle. A ce titre, il convient de refuter l'opposition communement affichee entre competence et emploi : la situation professionnelle, dans toute sa palette de configurations, constitue le socle de la gestion des competences et la reference obligatoire de l'evalution en vue de leur reconnaissance.