Ergonomic work analysis and professional training

Abstract

The starting point of the study is six research subjects in which ergonomic work analysis is conceived as a 'tool' used to develop professional types of training programmes concerning present or future work activities. All these approaches reveal a tendency for instructors to give priority to the experience of the trainee and interventions designed on the basis of concrete work situations. The question is to know if this is the affirmation of the values of an alternative socio-political project or simply that of a cyclical interest corresponding to increasing concerns regarding the management of labor which accompanied the process of the technical transformation and the shrinkage of the job market. Copyright (C) 1996 Elsevier Science Ltd