The new world, which the information age imposes on workers, requires a greater deployment of skills. More than ever, people must be adaptable and flexible. They must show individual responsibility for their skills, work behaviours, motivations and problem-solving abilities. They must find coping strategies to protect their job investment and psychological health at work. In the face of increasing demands and complexity, job obsolescence is a very real possibility. The experience of workers dealing with occupational obsolescence is the subject of this study. Indeed, the goal of this thesis is to better understand the experience of workers facing occupational obsolescence, which manifests itself in a lack of knowledge and skills and a loss of motivation and effectiveness at work. This leads to two specific research questions: 1) What is the multidimensional cognitive, affective, somatic, behavioural, relational, and contextual experience of workers experiencing occupational obsolescence? 2) What coping strategies do workers experiencing occupational obsolescence employ? This study is part of a qualitative-inductive methodological approach of the exploratory type, within an interpretive-constructivist paradigm and based on the phenomenological approach.
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