Diplôme et carrière : un lien indéfectible ? Le cas d'une grande entreprise de télécommunication

Recruiting and managing the starting of a career on the basis of people's qualification is a matter of common sense. But it is harder - and sometimes perceived as a source of discrimination - to accept that it continues to play a key role in the career and particularly for having access to exec...

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Published in:Revue management & avenir 2017-03 (92), p.41
Main Authors: Zannad, Hédia, Galindo, Géraldine
Format: Article
Language:fre
Subjects:
Academic degrees
Career advancement
Qualifications
Studies
Telecommunications industry
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Summary:Recruiting and managing the starting of a career on the basis of people's qualification is a matter of common sense. But it is harder - and sometimes perceived as a source of discrimination - to accept that it continues to play a key role in the career and particularly for having access to executive functions when only competencies and performance should be taken into account. If it is very hard to measure the socio-economic impact of a system in which people with the most prestigious degrees have priority in accessing, it is easier to analyze, at the level of the individual, the role played by qualification in employees' trajectories. This is the issue of this article in the context of a French company : Orange. Our case study shows that people don't necessarily react negatively to the privileged access to high positions of people having studied in a "grande école" and that employees who succeed without having first class degrees activate specific compensation mechanisms like specific competencies, geographic mobility or project management.
ISSN:1768-5958
1969-6574