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Titre Les agents contractuels de la fonction publique territoriale française : de la précarité juridique à l'atout managérial ?
Auteur Mmes Isabelle Desbarats, Maître de conférences HDR à l'Université de Toulouse I et Sandrine Kopel, Maître de conférences HDR à l'Université de toulouse III
Mir@bel Revue Revue française d'administration publique
Numéro no 115, décembre 2005 Politiques publiques et innovation sociale
Rubrique / Thématique
Politiques publiques et innovation sociale
 Etudes
Page 481
Résumé anglais Agents under Contract in the Territorial Public Service : Can a Precarious Legal Status Become a Managerial Asset ? The authors try to find the reasons underlying the following paradox : on one hand, by passing a series of measures, public authorities attempt to reduce the number of non-tenured agents, mainly because of their insecure legal status. They describe the precariousness of agents under contract in the territorial civil service, both in terms of their recruitment and career, and of their status, which is vague and incomplete. On the other hand however, the state employer does nothing to modify existing rules and regulations that allow for increased use of these agents, and thus does not seem to wish to relinquish the controlled use of labour that serves the purpose of being an adjustment variable. On the basis of a study of human resource management in a medium-sized commune, the authors show that the selfish interests which, due to their status, dominate the individual strategies of employees on short-term contracts, can serve the collective interest of greater efficiency in the human resource management of territorial staff. From the point of view of public managers, despite its present imperfections, the legal regime of agents under contract in fact allows for a flexibility of management advantageous to administrative reform, in the sense that agents are given more responsibility, competencies are more easily and quickly detected, and salaries better managed. From the agents'point of view, those on an administrative level at least, a certain number of advantages to some extent make up for the precariousness of their status, in particular the negotiation of their salary in terms of their competencies.
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