L'organisation du travail en exploitation d'élevage : analyse de 630 Bilans Travail réalisés dans huit filières animales

Cournut, Sylvie; Chauvat, Sophie

doi:10.20870/productions-animales.2012.25.2.3201

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“…Like other work times, the variability of CTA is always very high, and this comparison only gives a few elements to look at the margin for progress. However, the numerous studies carried out in France have made it possible to determine empirically thresholds of "livability" for the CTA (Cournut and Chauvat 2012). It has been considered that a CTA of less than 500 h per person of the Basic Group corresponds to difficult situations, from 900 or 1000 h is regarded as more comfortable.…”

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Analyzing work organization on livestock farm by the Work Assessment Method

Cournut

Chauvat

Correa

et al. 2018

Agron. Sustain. Dev.

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All over the world, farmers have to face up to increasing uncertainties (market and climate). They have to adapt their activity to the new contexts and challenges of livestock farming (producing more and better, and satisfying the expectations of society, consumers, and of downstream operators), while at the same time responding to their own expectations in terms of income, quality of life, and working conditions. In order to understand these changes and consider the future, work organization must be taken into account. The Work Assessment Method, developed by French livestock researchers, provides a framework able to capture work organization, taking into account the specifics of the livestock activity. Based on a comparative analysis of nine case studies that used the Work Assessment Method from six contrasted countries, this review (1) gives generic ideas on work organization indicators and their variation; (2) identifies four generic patterns of work organization which are not linked to the local context but marked by the workforce composition; (3) demonstrates that the relevance of the Work Assessment Method to tackle work issues, and its capacities to be adapted to a variety of livestock farming contexts throughout the world, is linked to the properties of its framework, which was developed by combining different disciplinary approaches; (4) highlights the principal limits of the method: lack of coordination with other dimensions of work (labor productivity; sense of the job), and limited characterization of the work organization flexibility; and (5) proposes some possibilities of change to better respond to the diversity of work situations and questions about work, and take better into account the evolutions of livestock farming systems.

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Section: Flexibility Assessmentmentioning

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Analyzing work organization on livestock farm by the Work Assessment Method

Cournut

Chauvat

Correa

et al. 2018

Agron. Sustain. Dev.

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“…More than 600 analyses of this type carried out in France in 2009 produced 'working times' benchmarks in eight herbivorous and seed-eating animal sectors (Cournut and Chauvat 2012). These benchmarks and the Work Assessment tool are used for individual advice, but their development has remained relatively modest compared to the extent of the problems.…”

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Advice and advisory roles about work on farms. A review

Dockès

Chauvat

Correa³

et al. 2018

Agron. Sustain. Dev.

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The organization of work and changes in patterns of working life is of increasing concern to farmers worldwide. This creates challenges for advisors, who do not always know (i) how to recognize farmers' or their own needs for knowledge and new approaches to farm work organization or (ii) how to assess different methods of advice to tackle this issue. How are advisors responding to this concern and what are the implications for advisory roles and the advisory situation? In this paper, we review the situation of farm work organization changes and advisory responses. We describe a conceptual framework integrating different foundations relating to work organization on farms, the farmer-advisor relationship and methods of advice. Applying this framework to farm work organization and advisory responses in Australia, Belgium, France and Uruguay, our findings are as follows: (i) the specific characteristics of work are a source of difficulties for both farmers and advisors; (ii) for the farmers, work is a very personal subject linked to identity; (iii) for the advisors, it requires different methods of advisory practice and skills; (iv) success of advisory roles in the context of farm work requires the control of various 'role statements'; and (v) the organizational framework in which advisors carry out their activity, as well as specific training, can make it easier to identify and organize the skills.

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“…nationaux en 1996 (Jordan et al 1996) et la construction de référentiels inclus dans les modélisations de systèmes publiées sous forme de «cas-type». Avec la création du RMT Travail et la prise en compte des élevages granivores, sept filières animales (bovins lait et viande, ovins lait et viande, caprins, porcs et volailles) sont maintenant concernées par des références sur les temps de travaux (Cournut et Chauvat 2012).…”

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Vingt ans de recherche-développement sur le travail en élevage : acquis et perspectives

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2012

INRA Prod. Anim.

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Les mutations du travail en élevage sont structurelles car les tailles des exploitations augmentent continuellement. Elles sont aussi sociologiques car les éleveurs souhaitent de meilleures conditions de vie au travail. Elles sont également liées aux innovations technologiques visant une plus grande efficience des pratiques. Les éleveurs intègrent l’ensemble de ces mutations en adaptant les conduites des troupeaux et des surfaces ainsi que les autres éléments de l’organisation du travail (la main-d’oeuvre, les équipements). Pour décrire et qualifier les formes d'organisation du travail en élevage, évaluer leur efficience et leur flexibilité, les zootechniciens des systèmes d’élevage ont proposé, avec des emprunts à l'économie, à l’ergonomie et à l'agronomie, des modèles qui considèrent que ni les travaux,ni les travailleurs, ni les périodes de l'année ne sont équivalents. Ils visent à mettre en relation les différentes facettes de l’agriculteur, à la fois manager technico-économique, organisateur du travail et travailleur sensible. Ces propositions reprises par les conseillers en France et à l'étranger contribuent à la constitution d'une communauté de recherche, formation et développement autour de ce thème stratégique pour l'avenir de l'élevage.

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L'organisation du travail en exploitation d'élevage : analyse de 630 Bilans Travail réalisés dans huit filières animales

Cited by 8 publications

References 14 publications

Analyzing work organization on livestock farm by the Work Assessment Method

Analyzing work organization on livestock farm by the Work Assessment Method

Advice and advisory roles about work on farms. A review

Vingt ans de recherche-développement sur le travail en élevage : acquis et perspectives

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