Abstract
This paper aims to investigate a new perspective that can incrementally analyze framework of entrepreneurs’ representations with regards to engineer image. It identifies managers’ attitudes towards the engineer and reveals the real factors that can explain the policy of hiring senior technicians in the Tunisian Cap-Bon industry. The sociological analysis of the representation of the industrial company leader on the issue of executive recruitment engineers had helped to highlight the risks of driving performed changes, the discrepancy between managerial objectives and how implement decisions. The ultimate consequences of this inconsistency can brake recruiting new engineers. Results highlight the influence of the entrepreneurs’ representations on the employment issue. Analysis of attitudes demonstrates that mind of leader towards framework engineer seems irrational, as long as, leader integrates technical uncertainties related to organizational and economic changes. In line with the main study, these social representations of the frame could be made on configurations, opinions, habits, equity positions, varied and often contradictory. If we are willing to embrace the idea that there would be a “change” in entrepreneurs’ representations towards engineers, it might be incrementally achieved through a triple register: cognitive, strategic and ethical.
Highlights
IntroductionThe notion of representation occupies a special place in social psychology
For social representation to be functional, two mechanisms must be put in place: Objectivation consists in reducing, transforming what is conceptual into concrete, and assigning a function to it like considering psychoanalysis as an object
The participatory actions have produced some cultural effects in the life of the enterprises, which brings about the idea that an act of change will not succeed nowadays unless we focus on the involvement of managers and employees through the common achievement of future projects
Summary
The notion of representation occupies a special place in social psychology It was introduced by Durkheim as the notion of collective representations and assigned in his social psychology study. Moscovici, survey of individual readers to know the image they have of psychoanalysis and this by means of interviews. For social representation to be functional, two mechanisms must be put in place: Objectivation consists in reducing, transforming what is conceptual into concrete, and assigning a function to it like considering psychoanalysis as an object. Jodelet (1985) conducted a study in a rural area where mentally ill people were free at home. She was able to show that the representation of mental illness was actualized through particular expressions
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