@article{Chiusso_2014, place={Lecce-Brescia (IT)}, title={The Union Trade beyond the competencies}, volume={12}, url={https://ojs.pensamultimedia.it/index.php/siref/article/view/1621}, abstractNote={<p>From the ISFOL-ISTAT survey on the professions, the “craft” of the union<br />leader appears to be similar to the one of the business manager, in which<br />skills as communication and staff management are prevailing.<br />The vocational dimension of this “trade” is nevertheless strong and cannot<br />be neglected: the business model doesn’t seem to be an appropriate term<br />of comparison to this “call” to the social justice.<br />The notion of competency doesn’t similarly appear to be suitable to tell the<br />union “occupation” as ideologically marked in terms of competition and<br />performance, which are not part of the union trade mission.<br />Inserted into the theoretical framework of “human capital”, competency is<br />functional to productivity and profit, but if inserted into the theoretical<br />framework of “human development” instead, it becomes also part of the capability, i.e. the “capacity of social functioning” concerning the existential<br />realization of the subject, beyond the economic component.</p>}, number={4}, journal={Formazione & insegnamento}, author={Chiusso, Cristiano}, year={2014}, month={Dec.}, pages={195–206} }