As managers they only reason not otherwise

The figure of the boss never had a rating of hell with the French employees, but they were not less attached to their own business or administration. Is it only a passage vacuum bound to the brutality of the crisis or a sustainable break In any case, a survey by TNS Sofres a representative sample of 1.005 employees of the private sector, public enterprises and administrations, from 14 to 23 October, reveals that this is no longer the case. "The split between employee and employer is consumed," stresses Xavier Lacoste, General Manager of Altedia, society of human resources for which Council has carried out this survey. The President of the Medef does not believes. Laurence Parisot won't hear divorce between employees and their employers, in any case in the private sector. However, this finding surprised not sociologist labour Michel Lallement (read the interview pages 5 and 6).

The malaise is not just to stress

According to the TNS Sofres Altedia survey, the phenomenon is General: if they are more positive about their relationship with their manager direct, only 42.7 of employees in the private sector reported "confidence in the leadership" of their business. The State employer, it is not better: they are even 29.6 in administration. Worse, only 39 surveyed employees believe that their employer, "the interests of managers and employees will in the same direction" (40.8 in 29.5 in the public and private). And only 38.2 of the employees (40.8 in the private, 29.5 in public) consider the differences in pay between their leaders and themselves justified. As managers, they only reason not otherwise. The only exception is the very small businesses, where 61 of employees say that the interests of their leaders go in their direction.

While the issue of stress has since a few weeks the front of the media scene, the investigation does not show that it is a major concern. Xavier Lacoste saw the sign that "it would be imprudent to summarize the current malaise in enterprises with a simple question of stress and psychosocial risks. For him, "it is at least as much to misunderstandings on the strategic guidelines or the compensation policies".

The relative importance of stress also means that if employees are unhappy (their salaries and the lack of recognition) and concerned (nearly one out of two feels threatened in his job), they "do are not resigned", according to Xavier Lacoste. They appear even in the rather protest survey. In private, they are 46 to discuss the strike and violent 22 of the shares. But it is not so good news for the unions, which disappointed a majority of employees (barely more than 45 them are trust and only 42 in the private sector). "There is an aspiration to any address at the first level with his manager", said Xavier Lacoste, who notes "disinvestment of the collective" to an "individualist retreat." This is all ingredients of a crisis management, which he is perhaps a little early to know if it is merely cyclical, but in any case, which seems deep enough.