Evaluation in the sciences, arts and organizations

The aim of this year's seminar was to explore the issue of work assessment in contrasting organizational, market and professional environments.
The various presentations focused on the meaning and plurality of practices for evaluating, valuing, estimating and measuring work, as well as on the objects on which these practices are based : work is understood in turn as a set of observable activities, as the product of human time and effort, or as the result (output) of these activities. The twelve sessions provided an opportunity to address, from different disciplinary perspectives, an ambiguity inherent in the act of assessment : a record of reality, this act is also a producer of standards. And since evaluation shapes the conduct of organizations and individuals, it is likely to produce effects that run counter to the very objectives it set out to achieve.