. "Sant\u00E9 publique -- M\u00E9decins cadres" . "The aim of this research was to measure the contribution of activity analysis to the development of self-efficacy in the workplace. Our population was comprised of public health executives and managers in training at the French School of Public Health. The research question focused on how to articulate the notion of critical competencies, notoriously difficult to acquire, with cognitive theory and the theory of conceptualization in action. These different but complementary theoretical approaches lead to the idea that activity analysis and agency may contribute explicitly to establishing a model of critical competencies training. Three sources of information data have been exploited. The first characterizes critical competencies in the field of public health management. The second results from measures of the level of job-related self efficacy (697 trainees from the EHESP). The third demonstrates how a system of activity analysis pertaining to managerial decision-making contributes to an increase in self efficacy. This result is particularly significant for those trainees with an initially low level of self efficacy. These results indicate that in all cases in which an increase in self efficacy has occurred, irrespective of whether the individuals concerned have benefited or not from established modes of training, activity analysis or self-conducted activity analysis has been the most determining factor in promoting an increase in self efficacy. Thus, this research strengthens the hypothesis that activity analysis and agency represent two major conditions for the formation of critical competencies, i.e. of effective adaptation of the professional to his work environment." . . "2008" . . . "Sciences de l'\u00E9ducation" . . . "Text" . . . "L\u2019objet de cette recherche est de mesurer la contribution de l\u2019analyse de l\u2019activit\u00E9 au d\u00E9veloppement de l\u2019auto-efficacit\u00E9 au travail. Notre population est constitu\u00E9e de cadres et de dirigeants de la sant\u00E9 publique en formation \u00E0 l\u2019\u00C9cole des hautes \u00E9tudes en sant\u00E9 publique. La probl\u00E9matique vise \u00E0 articuler la notion de comp\u00E9tences critiques, comp\u00E9tences si difficiles \u00E0 acqu\u00E9rir, avec la th\u00E9orie sociocognitive et la th\u00E9orie de la conceptualisation dans l\u2019action. La convergence sur quelques objets essentiels de ces deux ensembles th\u00E9oriques est un premier r\u00E9sultat : l\u2019analyse de l\u2019activit\u00E9 et l\u2019agentivit\u00E9 contribuent explicitement \u00E0 un mod\u00E8le de la formation des comp\u00E9tences critiques. Trois s\u00E9ries de donn\u00E9es sont constitu\u00E9es. La premi\u00E8re identifie des comp\u00E9tences critiques dans le champ du management de la sant\u00E9 publique. La seconde est issue de la mesure du niveau d\u2019auto-efficacit\u00E9 de 697 \u00E9l\u00E8ves de l\u2019\u00C9HESP. La troisi\u00E8me montre qu\u2019un dispositif d\u2019analyse d\u2019une activit\u00E9 de d\u00E9cision manag\u00E9riale contribue \u00E0 l\u2019augmentation de l\u2019auto-efficacit\u00E9. Ce r\u00E9sultat est particuli\u00E8rement significatif pour les personnes qui disposaient d\u2019un faible niveau initial d\u2019auto-efficacit\u00E9. Les analyses indiquent que dans tous les cas d\u2019augmentation de l\u2019auto-efficacit\u00E9, que les individus aient b\u00E9n\u00E9fici\u00E9 ou non d\u2019un dispositif institu\u00E9 ou non, l\u2019analyse de l'activit\u00E9, ou l\u2019auto-analyse de l\u2019activit\u00E9, est le facteur le plus d\u00E9terminant. Ainsi, cette recherche renforce l\u2019hypoth\u00E8se suivant laquelle l\u2019analyse de l\u2019activit\u00E9 et l\u2019agentivit\u00E9 constituent deux conditions majeures \u00E0 la formation des comp\u00E9tences critiques, c\u2019est-\u00E0-dire de l\u2019adaptation performante de l\u2019homme \u00E0 son environnement professionnel." . . . "Activity analysis and the development of self-efficacy, A contribution to an agentic theory for the development of critical competencies in public health executives and managers" . "Analyse de l\u2019activit\u00E9 et d\u00E9veloppement de l\u2019auto-efficacit\u00E9, Contribution \u00E0 une th\u00E9orie agentique de la formation des comp\u00E9tences critiques des cadres et dirigeants de la sant\u00E9 publique" . "Formation professionnelle -- Enseignement sup\u00E9rieur" . . "Th\u00E8ses et \u00E9crits acad\u00E9miques" . . "Analyse de l\u2019activit\u00E9 et d\u00E9veloppement de l\u2019auto-efficacit\u00E9, Contribution \u00E0 une th\u00E9orie agentique de la formation des comp\u00E9tences critiques des cadres et dirigeants de la sant\u00E9 publique" . . . "Professionnalisme" . .