Chapter Risorse umane e professioni nell’ufficio per il processo

Abstract

The arrival of clerks to the trial office entails readjustments with respect to the division of labor by questioning the mutual jurisdictions of magistrates and clerical staff, that is, the set of activities that a given profession successfully claims in the division of labor. Drawing on the results of the research conducted as part of the Agile Justice project, the paper highlights the outcomes of this readjustment by enhancing the point of view of the actors directly involved, namely magistrates, administrative staff and clerks. The perspective adopted looks at these professional groups not so much from their prerogatives of role and function, but from the processes of interaction between actors who defend their autonomy and jurisdiction within a dynamic of mutual recognition. Centrality is thus given to what people do in concrete working relationships by looking at the negotiated order within organizations.