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Driving change within the ‘esprit de corps’: the case of firefighters facing smoke toxicity
[Conduire le changement là où règne l’esprit de corps. Le cas des sapeurs-pompiers face à la toxicité des fumées]

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  • Anaïs Saint Jonsson

    (AMU IMPGT - Institut de management public et de gouvernance territoriale - AMU - Aix Marseille Université, CERGAM - Centre d'Études et de Recherche en Gestion d'Aix-Marseille - AMU - Aix Marseille Université - UTLN - Université de Toulon)

  • Philippe Agopian

    (SDIS 30 - Service Départemental d’Incendie et de Secours du Gard)

  • Emil Turc

    (CERGAM - Centre d'Études et de Recherche en Gestion d'Aix-Marseille - AMU - Aix Marseille Université - UTLN - Université de Toulon, AMU IMPGT - Institut de management public et de gouvernance territoriale - AMU - Aix Marseille Université)

Abstract

This article is an exploratory study aiming at understanding how public organizations relating to the sovereign power, where lives an 'esprit de corps' (group spirit), are driven into cultural change regarding occupational hazard. With a case study on smoke toxicity in the firefighter profession, we show the risk prevention stresses fire departments senior management to bring a mediation process to bring change. In this framework, the esprit de corps will help them to gather different actors around the topic of the perception of this specific risk in order to reach a status quo on concrete measures. Moreover, the esprit de corps does not protect the sovereign power from economical logics and societal evolution, that both shape risk perception and measures perception in the profession.

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  • Anaïs Saint Jonsson & Philippe Agopian & Emil Turc, 2019. "Driving change within the ‘esprit de corps’: the case of firefighters facing smoke toxicity [Conduire le changement là où règne l’esprit de corps. Le cas des sapeurs-pompiers face à la toxicité des," Post-Print hal-04365815, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-04365815
    DOI: 10.3166/pmp.36.2019.0023
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