The 20 years of legal change sketched above have been vital for the evolution of perspectives on training in France but it must be stated at the outset that if the state has played a key legislative and directive role then another kind of dynamic has also served to push training to a new level of importance in the minds of French managers. This dynamic corresponds to a continued rise in the importance attributed to social and human resources issues in working life and a more general public and media rediscovery of the firm as a social entity. Its visible manifestations are easy to detect: