The Conditions for Apprenticeship in a Work Situation: Margins of Maneuver and Resources to be Changed by the Individual, the Group and the Organization

Abstract

An ergonomic analysis of the learning conditions and strategies in two types of occupations demonstrates the existence of various degrees of use and construction of organizational, human and material resources. These strategies are individual and collective, and focus on an increase in the margin of maneuver for doing and learning how to do the work in an efficient way. They play a major role but are developed and implemented under conditions that often make them costly because they are limited by the margin of maneuver imposed by the companies.