Le nom d’Eric Trist (1909-1993) est profondément attaché à celui de l’école socio-technique dont il est, avec Frederick Emery (1925-1997), l’un des principaux fondateurs. Mais ni l’œuvre ni l’homme ne se résume à cette approche. Ses contributions sont plus larges et nous nous efforcerons de cerner l’ensemble de ses apports, notamment aux sciences de gestion et du management. Comme nous le verrons, avec ses collaborateurs, Trist a laissé un héritage important tant sur le plan de la recherch...

Le nom d’Elton Mayo est associé à la fondation de l’école des relations humaines, un mouvement intellectuel qui s’est développé dans le contexte de la crise économique de 1929 et en réaction aux excès du taylorisme. Chez Mayo, le spontané s’oppose au planifié, la chaleur des relations à la froideur du travail prescrit et le petit groupe à l’individu isolé. Un projet réaliste d’organisation doit donc être conçu non seulement en raison d’une logique formelle d’enchaînement d’opérations de pr...

Les organisations sont au centre de nos vies, au cœur de nos sociétés. À l’heure où nous vivons des crises sanitaires et écologiques historiques, il est plus important que jamais de comprendre ce qui se cache derrière le management et ses pratiques. C’est ce à quoi nous convie cet ouvrage, écrit par deux chercheurs en sciences de gestion.À partir de la notion de dispositifs de gestion, ce livre vous amènera à découvrir : les idéologies et pensées sous-jacentes lors d’une réunion de...

Les outils de gestion sont d’habitude considérés comme des objets vils et négligeables. Impensés, ils en deviennent invisibles. Et pourtant, leur influence est considérable.Contre le sens commun, les auteurs soutiennent que la philosophie est fondamentale pour le développement de la théorie des organisations sur laquelle reposent les différentes conceptualisations des outils de gestion. D’une part, les efforts de théorisation reflètent des présupposés philosophiques qui jouent comm...

A dramatic, moving memoir of coming of age amid the chaos and terror of WWII combat by a member of the 87th Infantry Division.Gene Garrison spent a terrifying nineteenth birthday crammed into a muddy foxhole near the German border in the Saar. He listened helplessly to cries of wounded comrades as exploding artillery shells sent deadly shrapnel raining down on them. The date was December 16, 1944, he was a member of a .30-caliber machine gun crew with the 87th Infa...

Technological ChangeTechnological change is exciting as much as it is daunting. The arrival of new digital tools affects consumption patterns, types of employment and working conditions, and can pose challenges to organizations and individuals alike. Indeed, although technological change is a factor for economic growth, it can also be an amplifier, or even a catalyst, of inequality. It is also a social change and interacts in complex ways: technology is bo...

No organization is immune from the influence of management tools. Such tools as norms, indicators, ranking, evaluation grids and management control systems have moved outside the managerial and consultancy realm within which they were first developed to reach public administrations and policy-makers, as well as a range of other governmental and non-governmental organizations. Taking management tools out of the practical and utilitarian contexts to which they are often consigned and approac...

Patrick Petrella is considered something of a curiosity by his fellow police officers. He is the son of a Spanish policeman and an English school mistress. He speaks four languages and is as good at picking fine wines as he is locks. The short stories contained in this volume follow his career as a constable, dealing with burglars, delinquents of various shapes and sizes, bent lawyers, gangs, drugs trafficking and murder. They are classic police procedural stories and show Michael Gilbert ...

Patrick Petrella has been promoted, but is now installed behind a desk, dealing with a mountain of paperwork on diverse subjects ranging from police race relations to allegations of brutality, press harassment and bribery of officers. He is, however, desperate to get out onto the streets again. In a fast moving novel Gilbert has Petrella detecting the patterns of rival gangs at work and uncovering a paedophile ring which operates as far as Amsterdam. He is soon taking on one of the more un...

Promoted to Detective Inspector, Patrick Petrella now finds himself in a London borough close to the Thames. In these short stories he has to deal with arson, blackmail, fraud, forgery and murder. The Thames is a focus for some of the stories, as it is convenient for the dumping of a body and also for arrivals from abroad. Written with Michael Gilbert’s eye for detail and knowledge of police procedures, along with the suspense which is his hallmark, this is a fitting accompaniment to the s...

A critical examination of how pleasure and pain are constructed, represented, and contested within American public culture.Mainstream news and social media often highlight presentations of pain that invite a voyeuristic, pleasurable experience, whether the result of war, disasters, crime, accidents, or other catastrophes. This collection of essays explores pleasurable pains and painful pleasures, showing how they pervade contemporary western public culture...

What do women want? This question has stumped the greatest male minds for centuries. Of course, if you’re married, a much better question is, what does your wife want?As Darrin and Amie Patrick reveal in this profoundly practical and transformational book, God designed your wife with the need to be loved. And that design is an invitation for you to love her deeply, intentionally, and passionately.Practicing ten powerful actions, including listening, pursuing, and serving, w...