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| Titre : |
Emotions. The “mad housewife” or “career anchor”, a vector of meaning for the public manager in local authorities |
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| Numéro : |
48 |
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| Année : |
2013 |
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| Volume : |
XIX |
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| Auteur(s) : |
Grégory AVIER |
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| Résumé : |
The “mad housewife” or “career anchor”, a vector of meaning for the public manager in local authorities
To the World of Ideas and the Kingdom of Reason, imagination was long what emotion represents still today in the world of organisations: “the mad housewife” (Malebranche, 1675). With firmness, Malebranche launched a hierarchical call to order, in which the subtitle of his book “where we deal with the Nature of Man’s mind and the use that he must make of it to avoid errors in the Sciences.” leaves no room for ambiguity: Emotions, like imagination are nothing but the cause of errors and falsity” (Pascal 1669) and should be viscerally removed from the path which leads to scientific truth. Creating in the same way, a duality of the body and the mind inherent in the history of sciences and its epistemological movement until the 17th century, this purely Western concept has long dominated the different disciplines of social sciences, and in doing so, has not spared government sciences. Indeed, the managerial sermons common in the fields of management and HR management give pride of place to the emotional investment of the professional activity, treating emotions as the necessary performance levers for achieving employee buy-in, reflecting a true “emotional revolution” (Barsade &alii, 2003). They nevertheless always consider emotions as a management tool and by using or abusing them to achieve goals which form the very core of the ultimate purpose of management, whether this is profitability or cost effectiveness, or at least performance, try to improve the management of employees and their involvement in their work by systematising emotions and humans who experience them as a means and not an end. The aim of this paper is therefore to invigorate the development of a humanist perspective as Montaigne understood it, in management sciences; It will say “I” and start from the subject, placing the values of the human person and the dignity of the individual above all others. Based on a biographical approach by looking at life histories, it will try to showcase the fundamental role of emotions in building the professional identity of the individual in organisations. By focussing on an area recently taken over by private sector management methods, and by the introduction of New Public Management, local authorities must demonstrate the basis of attachment to the work performed by those who are in charge of directing and implementing public policies at the local level, and what are the consequences and methods of mediation in dealing with organisational change. |
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| Pages : |
43 - 71 |
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| Type : |
Research paper |
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| Keywords : |
emotional attachment, psychological contract, emotion, emotional intelligence, public organizations, clinical sociology, biographical approach |
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| Citations : |
4 |
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| CAIRN : |
https://www.cairn.info/revue-internationale-de-psychosociologie-de-gestion-des-comportements-organisationnels-2013-48-page-43.htm |
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