Decent work in France: Context, conceptualization, and assessment

Publication date: Available online 20 October 2019Source: Journal of Vocational BehaviorAuthor(s): Emmanuelle Vignoli, Nathalie Prudhomme, Katia Terriot, Valérie Cohen-Scali, Caroline Arnoux-Nicolas, Jean-Luc Bernaud, Noëlle LallemandAbstractThe first aim of this study was to validate a French version of the Decent Work Scale (DWS) proposed by Duffy, Allan, Blustein, England, Douglass, Ferreira, and Santos (2017). Our second aim was to gain insight into French people's representations of decent work using a qualitative approach. A representative sample of 300 French employees completed the DWS, as well as measures of life satisfaction, work satisfaction, work-family conflict, meaningful work, and withdrawal intentions. Participants also responded to an open-ended question asking them to define decent work. Confirmatory factor analyses, as well as correlation and internal-consistency analyses, indicated satisfactory internal and convergent validity for the French version of the DWS. The qualitative results showed that French representations for decent work only partially overlapped with the initial conceptualizations of decent work in the United States. These findings are discussed in reference to notions of decent work in vocational psychology and to the cultural context of work within French society.
Source: Journal of Vocational Behavior - Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research