Les grandes entreprises françaises et la religion : Proposition d'une grille d'analyse pour décrypter les postures adoptées

Taking a stance toward religious issues has become a complex act of management. To avoid subjectivity and disorder when it comes to manage religious demands, companies try to introduce rationality by providing managers with management tools, including managerial guides on which we will focus in this article. More specifically, we wonder how to interpret the contents of these tools, as revealing postures of French companies dealing with religious claims. On the basis of a literature review and an empirical study we propose an analytical framework to characterize companies' positions and the levels of analysis associated with them : individual, organizational and national. All managerial guides offered by French companies and associations are then analyzed through the lens of our grid. This article enables us to describe the position of large companies committed to the production of one type of tool reacting to the same kinds of religious claims, and to consider the challenges for HRM.