The paper looks behind the formal requirements in-company trainers in German apprenticeship have to fulfil and explores what keeps them actively involved in the training mandate of the firm. Based on accounts of various practitioners within the company context, a complex social dynamic between the management, the trainers and apprentices reveals. When contrasting the findings with a variety of French case studies both within and beyond apprenticeship schemes, surprising similarities appear. The results call for an understanding of workplace training as a social rather than educational practice and stress the relevance of a work culture based on reciprocity and trust for sustaining it. © 2019 Documentation Francaise. All rights reserved.
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