Qualifying training for company employees : the experience of higher education institutions

Abstract EN

This research carried out in the context of four companies attempts to describe the evolution of the educational relationship during a transfer of know-how between an Expert: Higher School of managment, and knowledge Receiver: company employees.

The episodes, in number and in cumulative duration, show an evolution towards more reciprocity of exchanges.

The interviews with each of the actors, at the start and end of the transmission, then after the transmission show the evolution of representations on both sides, which are interpreted as on the one hand, an apprenticeship and on the other hand, confirmation of subsidiary motivations.

Paradoxically, this device close to traditional companionship can be part of the panoply of new ways of professionalization advocated by the Qualifying Institution and the Learning Company.