The 'need for recognition at work': non-problem or mission impossible?

International audienceWe keep hearing and reading that there is an issue regarding ‘recognition in the workplace’: unrecognized employees suffer terribly from this ‘lack of recognition’ and complain about it, while organizations are unable to meet this ‘need for recognition’ and must work to improve the situation. The question hanging over human resource departments and one which is also asked by trade unions is: how can we respond to the need for employee recognition? What are the best practices to this effect?Yet the issue is poorly worded, which not only prevents us from solving it, but also, to a far more worrying extent, helps to aggravate it. Psychoanalysis, especially Lacanian, can significantly help us find our way. This is what I will attempt to address in this presentation