Foreword

Page 33 to 54

Chapter 1 — When experience means observing the real of work

Page 55 to 76

Looking at organizations from the inside
Advocating for ethnographic research
Laëtitia Laude, Christophe Vignon, Mathias Waelli

Page 77 to 99

Middle managers’ key role in sensemaking
The sensemaking process in the context of organizational change
Nathalie Guilmot, Alain Vas

Chapter 2 — When experience means accepting the real of work

Page 101 to 119

Page 121 to 150

Middle management under pressure
The difficulty of integrating the NPM managerial framework in organizations serving the general interest
François Pichault, Frédéric Schoenaers

Page 151 to 160

Being a leader in spite of yourself
Two case studies of leadership malaise
Martine Brasseur

Chapter 3 — When experience means influencing the real of work

Page 161 to 183

When social innovation is driven by labor entrepreneurship
Benevolence at the heart of the business model, or social business in action
Julie Tixier

Page 185 to 204

Page 205 to 216

The lever of imagination: An example from China
Feedback from a Chinese student
Tian Xing Shi

Chapter 4 — When experience means regulating the real of work

Page 217 to 238

Entrepreneurial coaching
Psychological biases to look out for
Jean-Jacques Pluchart

Page 239 to 250

Does equality work as a lever?
In the context of managerial contractualism
Fabrice Gutnik

Afterword: When managing means “dealing with” the real of work

Page 251 to 273

How to be a manager without losing your soul
When the “real of work” of managers opens the way to alternative and humanistic everyday practices
Catherine Glée, Frederik Mispelblom Beyer

Page 275 to 292

Does managing mean losing your soul?
When the real of work of managers opens the way to deviant everyday practices
Jean-Pierre Dumazert, Benoît Cherré

Publications

Page 293 to 296

Power games in the workplace
How to identify and put an end to them
Mauricio Goldstein, Philip Read

Page 297 to 298

Carl Rogers: How to truly be yourself
A person-centered approach
Geneviève Odier

Page 299

Reviews

Page 301 to 308

The interdisciplinary journal RIPCO aims to contribute to the understanding, explaining, and improvement of teams’ and individuals’ behaviors within organizations. It publishes theoretical or empirical research on organizational behavior, regardless of the type of organization under study (private, state-run, or NGO), the methodology used, and the contexts in which these research papers are written. Read more...

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