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- Yvon Martineau
- Michel Tremblay
- Thierry Wils
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The career anchors model proposed by Schein allows to stress the great variety of talents, motivations and values within homogeneous professional groups. However, how to interpret scores obtained in the various anchors does not make unanimity. This model postulates that an individual possesses only a single dominant anchor, which lead numerous researchers to deduct that it is necessary to retain only the career anchor with the highest score to operationalize the concept of dominance. Nevertheless reality seems to indicate that some individuals possess several strong anchors, posing the question of the multiplicity of anchors and of the interpretation of scores. Using a sample of 900 Canadian engineers, this study shows that the multiplicity of anchors, here called undifferenciation, is more frequent than we think, that it is not a pathological phenomenon and that it allows to better identify an unstudied career path, that is to say the hybrid career path. Le modèle des ancres de carrière proposé par Schein a permis de mettre en relief la grande diversité des talents, motivations et valeurs au sein de groupes professionnels homogènes. En revanche, la façon d'interpréter les scores obtenus aux différentes ancres ne fait pas unanimité. Partant d'un postulat sous-jacent à ce modèle selon lequel un individu ne possède qu'une seule ancre dominante, de nombreux chercheurs en déduisent, à partir d'une lecture en filigrane des travaux de Schein, qu'il faut ne retenir que l'ancre de carrière ayant le score le plus élevé pour opérationnaliser le concept de dominance. Pourtant la réalité semble indiquer que certains individus possèdent plusieurs ancres élevées, ce qui pose la question de la multiplicité des ancres et de l'interprétation des scores. S'appuyant sur un échantillon de 900 ingénieurs québécois, cette étude montre que la multiplicité des ancres, ici appelée indifférenciation, est plus fréquente qu'on ne le pense, qu'elle n'est pas un phénomène pathologique et qu'elle permet de mieux cerner un cheminement de carrière mal connu, soit le cheminement hybride.
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