Glossary entry

French term or phrase:

dans la rigueur

English translation:

with rigorous standards in place

Added to glossary by Black & White
Nov 15, 2007 20:59
16 yrs ago
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French term

dans la rigueur

French to English Bus/Financial Human Resources
I'm translating an article for an HR newsletter. It describes an integration project. I'm not sure how to translate "dans la rigueur" in one of the companies slogan's used during the project in question to inspire/guide the project's participants. Here's the sentence:


Dès le lancement du processus d’intégration, deux slogans ont donc été choisis pour servir de support de communication interne et donc de « fil rouge » à la démarche engagée , le premier afin d’incarner le modèle à atteindre ***« l’agilité et la flexibilité dans la rigueur »***, le second afin d’incarner la méthode suivie, fondée sur la recherche permanente de l’équilibre : « prendre le meilleur des deux réalités »

They use "rigueur" again later on and contrast it with "agilite" (which I was simply planning to translate as "agility"):

Même si la situation un an après le lancement du projet d’intégration n’est évidemment pas parfaite (ici encore des collaborateurs se plaignant d’une convergence encore imparfaite des outils informatiques, là des collaborateurs pouvant ****avoir l’impression de vivre plus la rigueur industrielle que l’agilité tant vantée par notre slogan****), ils sont des faits tangibles et vérifiables qui permettent de conforter la pertinence de l’approche retenue :

Discussion

Black & White (asker) Nov 15, 2007:
Yes, sorry, two gas companies are being merged into one big one. The focus of this HR article is the integration of staff of the two companies into the new company with shared values, common practices, standardised work contracts, and so on. The focus is definitely on the people here.
Ingeborg Gowans (X) Nov 15, 2007:
can you shed some light on "who is being integrated"? My first thought would have been: show flexibility while adhering to regulations , standards, laws or something like that (rigueur= rigidity), but without any more detals, I am just guessing here

Proposed translations

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speed and flexibility with rigorous standards in place

Hello,

This is my understanding.

dans la rigueur = with rigorous standards

Yes, speed and flexibility are encouraged but rigorous standards do apply.

I hope this helps.
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42 mins

with thoroughness

Axis History Forum :: War crimes of Nationalist forces in the ...... en mesure " d’affronter avec rigueur l’étude de la violence politique, .... to "face with thoroughness the study of the poltic violence, of the terror, ...
forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?t=80488

Termium:
Domaine(s)
  – Recruiting of Personnel
Domaine(s)
  – Recrutement du personnel
 
thoroughness and attention
to details Source

rigueur et minutie Source FÉM

OBS – Source(s) : Lexique des
descriptions de postes et des profils
d'emploi, DSTM [Direction des
services de traduction ministériels]
Statistique Canada. Source

KEY TERM(S)
– thoroughness and attention to detail




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*** it could be then "within a tight (financial)policy"
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and demanding (see below)

The slogan would seem to say that these people are agile, flexible etc. but without sacrificing the attention to precision and detail (to pinch a phrase from Francis' answer). I'd envisage, in the slogan, something with adjectives.... "agile, flexible (if those are the words you want to use) but/and also demanding"
For the second occurrence, I'd use demands - the demands of industry
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11 hrs

tight...

Obviously, it depends how far you can stray from the source text, but something like "A tight ship with an agile, flexible crew" might work for a slogan. If not:

Agility and flexibility within a tight/solid/sturdy framework
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