Human Resources In The Public Sector

Human resources in the public sector is a complex and current topic. In analyzing this topic, the sociologic perspective allows us, starting from the interactions between actors and the system, to identify and analyze new social relations, formation of identities – individual and collective; the practices of actors, the bottlenecks hindering the harmonization of new social factors and the factors favorable to the transformation of the public sector into a dynamic sector. The analysis of the two components in interaction allows us to expand it to the contemporary experience of work, which is the one of permanent tension between actors and work on the one hand and between work and work conditions on the other hand.In different terms, what differentiates or connects actors at work and their conducts as concerns work situations. This tension is generated by the existence of an ambivalent relation between, on the one hand, the independence of actors, work participation and, on the other hand, the oppression and constraint. Work in the industrial age was central and considered the fundamental social relation grounding it. In the postindustrial age, we are witnessing a fundamental mutation of the purpose and value of work, which generates discarding logics at the level of human resources (the rift between actor and system).