Article pp.165-167 du Vol.37 n°214 (2011)

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Editorial

Contributors to this issue

Management: the builders

Bernard Roy and the foundations of decision aiding Albert David, Sébastien Damart

Bernard Roy’s works have founded the european school of multicriteria decision aiding and, more broadly speaking, are a key contribution to the foundation of scientific decision aiding approaches. Aiding. they are based upon several major breakthroughs with regard to traditional operational research and to the works of F.W. Taylor’s successors in management. Roy’s intellectual and scientific biography highlights it well. On many research projects and studies, the limits of classical decision-making models appear – the ones related to the existence of a unique, substantive rationality and to a possible optimization of choices.

Bernard Roy contributed to the birth of a paradigm with three pillars: decision aiding with multiple criteria, robust and satisfying choices rather than optima, and a certain vision of the decision aiding activity focused on value relevant solutions rather than on the search for an optimum.

Role transition: an operating concept for the management of change François Jaujard

Growing economic tensions are likely to reveal that new management approaches to change are required. research in this new field is being carried out at a leading european microelectronics center. these studies highlight the role of transition as an operating concept for management of change. the purpose of this research is both to enrich the theoretical reflections about organizational change and to create new tools for management analysis.

Traffic safety missions of Montreal Police Service.

Strategy analysis and organisatonal dynamics Laurent Carnis

Few investigations in the traffic safety field are related to the role of police organization. However an economic approach of police organization proves that they are important for understanding the implementation of traffic safety public policy. This contribution proposes a strategy analysis with a particular application to the Montreal police service. Its aims are to provide a better understanding of organizational constraints, the influence of environment on the evolution of organization and organizational dynamics.

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File: Management and Health Guest Editor: Mathieu Detchessahar

Management and health Mathieu Detchessahar

Psychosocial stakes in the workplace. From a theoretical framework to the design of the organization

Jean-Claude Sardas, Cédric Dalmasso, Philippe Lefebvre

The article proposes both to analyze psychosocial stakes at the workplace and to explore health curative or preventive actions at the organizational level. We first delineate our understanding of psychosocial stakes and point to the limits of the main explicative models that link work and health regarding their reach in terms of actions on the organization. We then present our approach named

“Design and Dynamics of Organizations”: it articulates a model to diagnose psychic health at work (exploring actors’ global identity dynamics) and a model to (re)design the organization of activities (strategy, processes, structure, resources). We illustrate the approach with an actual case of collaborative research. These two models, when combined with a device to follow the reorganizing process, allow to deal (in a defensive or a curative way) with the psychosocial stakes at work thanks to actions on the organization.

Health at work: Management as a solution?

Mathieu Detchessahar

The numerous transformations that organizations have undergone during the last 20 years have also had a significant effect on work. Employees face a growing numbers of constraints. What effects are these transformations having on the health of employees? The aim of this paper is to look at the role that management plays in dealing with tensions in the workplace. The research highlights that employees are suffering of a lack of management. The research shows indeed how the current transformations have led to managerial staff deserting their day-to-day activities and turning instead to feeding

“management machines”. The research emphasizes at last the difficulties that managers have, in the current context, in managing “discussion areas” about work.

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ICT’s effects on health at work: a case study Pierre-Yves Gomez, Romain Chevallet

This paper examines the influence of ICT on health at work. We observe a growing social demand regarding health in the workplace parallel to an increasingly use of ICT tools – yet regarded as “soft technologies”. Based on literature and previous research, we formulate four heuristic assumptions to clarify this paradox. In an in-deepth empirical analysis of the implementation of voice picking in a logistic platform we find that ICT accelerate the pace of tasks and simplify the content of work. Finally, ICT increase both the feeling and the reality of work hardness.

Health at work. A trip in lean management land Thierry Bertrand, Arnaud Stimec

Reaching lasting performances is a crucial stake in a world facing a stronger complexity and multiple risks. In this context, occupational health is frequently pointed as the sign of non lasting production models like lean management.By studying three firms using lean management, but facing sensible differences regarding occupational health, our purpose is to look for possible causes for these gaps, in terms of management settings. The sight is focused on discussion spaces and intermediate management. Understanding the role and place they play, is a road to action to improve working conditions.

Occupational health and managerial action.

Evidences from two case studies in the industry sector Guy Minguet

Management science is increasingly examining the role of corporate management and organisation as determinants of occupational health, but on the contrary pays little attention to the social processes that can have an impact on these determinants. The aim of this article is to examine the link between employee health and well-being and management methods on two industrial sites. Putting the accent on corporate governance legitimacy is to acknowledge the existence of different work organisation and control methods but also, acceptance of a company project and its choices in human and capital resources management.

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