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DEQUALIFICATION [4 records]

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Record 1 2006-02-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Labour and Employment
CONT

Obsolescence of workers or of their skills.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Travail et emploi
OBS

[...] recherches conduites à l'université de Columbia sur l'obsolescence de la qualification des ingénieurs et des chercheurs [...].

CONT

[...] beaucoup d'étudiants, surtout après la licence, travaillent déjà. En poursuivant leurs études, ils comptent améliorer leur situation. [...] Il y a crainte du chômage ou tout au moins de la déqualification.

Spanish

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Record 2 2006-02-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Personnel and Job Evaluation
  • Working Practices and Conditions
CONT

The "ladder" effect arises when highly skilled workers who do not find a job that matches their skills, accept jobs that were previously occupied by less qualified staff.

CONT

The first computer wave produced negative social effects in the form of dequalification of skilled employees.

OBS

qualification ... any quality, skill, knowledge, experience, etc. that fits a person for a position, office, profession, etc.; requisite.

OBS

Do not say: "despecialization" or "despecialisation".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Évaluation du personnel et des emplois
  • Régimes et conditions de travail
DEF

Fait pour un travailleur de passer d'un emploi qualifié à un emploi non qualifié.

OBS

Ne pas dire : «banalisation» ou «déspécialisation».

Key term(s)
  • perte de qualification

Spanish

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Record 3 1998-07-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Personnel and Job Evaluation
  • Working Practices and Conditions
OBS

Deskilling: proposal on the model of "to deskill", defined below.

OBS

Deskill: to reduce (a job or operation) to simple parts requiring no skill, especially through automation and specialization: Many crafts have in fact become deskilled (New Scientist).

Key term(s)
  • de-skilling

French

Domaine(s)
  • Évaluation du personnel et des emplois
  • Régimes et conditions de travail
DEF

Abaissement du niveau de compétence, de formation professionnelle ou d'habitude technique acquise pour l'exercice d'un poste de travail.

OBS

La déqualification résulte soit de la décomposition du travail par un bureau des méthodes, soit de l'introduction de machines d'un degré supérieur d'automation.

Spanish

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Record 4 1994-09-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Personnel and Job Evaluation
  • Working Practices and Conditions

French

Domaine(s)
  • Évaluation du personnel et des emplois
  • Régimes et conditions de travail
DEF

Abaissement du niveau de formation, d'aptitude et de pratique requis pour une activité donnée.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Evaluación del personal y los cargos
  • Prácticas y condiciones de trabajo
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