If the title of the conference of the former business manager turned psychoanalyst Frédéric Le Boterve (“Managerial benevolence, a utopia ? ») left some doubt about the answer, it didn't last...
Beyond the formula and good intentions, Frédéric Le Boterve invites us to think about the reality of management and life at work. Why so much suffering at work, why this feeling of general exhaustion, what studies and surveys on the subject measure ? Quoted by the speaker, Gallup 2024 State of the World Work Study concludes that, in matters of occupational health, Europe is dead last and, and Europe, it’s France that brings up the rear : 70% of French people questioned point to management as the main cause of their discomfort.
It is in the United States that employees feel the best according to the Gallup survey. No confidence at work without psychological safety. Recipe, to gain this confidence, remains to be invented, concluded Frédéric le Boterve.
