Ergology: understanding human activity to transform it

We think we know everything about human activity and more particularly about work activity. But then, why always so much, even more, damage? Ergology is a multidisciplinary approach that allows us to analyze all human activities, in order to intervene to transform/improve them. In order to do this, it aims at putting into dialogue the traditional academic knowledge (constituted knowledge) elaborated by the different human and social sciences, and the knowledge of the protagonists of these human activities that they acquire and produce by the very fact of their participation in these activities (invested knowledge). For this approach "nothing serious can be said about any human activity independently of those who act". Thus, ergology is situated from the outset at the crossroads of multiple academic knowledges and of the "savoirs-y-faire" of the actors who work in concrete situations. The aim of this book is to offer a basic introduction to this scientifically elaborated approach.