Le débat sur le travail fondé sur la subsidiarité : un outil pour développer un environnement capacitant

This article is based on a doctoral thesis inscribed in the field of the security of organizations. The research was carried out in an electricity distribution company subject to "organizational silence", where workers are required to no longer report difficulties experienced on the ground or situations with low impact. This research defends the idea that in order to deal with organizational silence, it is necessary to develop the "structured debate on work" - i.e. spaces of debate organized by the principle of subsidiarity - at different levels of the company. As soon as certain conditions have been met, these spaces can contribute to the development of the persons concerned and of the organization itself. At the same time, the structured debate on work makes it possible to develop a more capable environment, that is to say an environment which provides the means to develop the activity. The main objective of this article is to present the contributions and conditions of this approach and show how well it can develop an enabling environment.