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Contributions of the psychodynamic analysis of work situations to the study of organizational crises

Orsay Hospital, Paris

It is well known today that the organization of work has several conse quences on employees' mental health. I will take in this article an inverse approach, i.e. that employees' pain has several consequences on the organi zation or the organizing of work, on organizational crises and on their man agement.

Presenting briefly the field of "Psychodynamic Analysis of Work Situations", and using empirical data collected in the nuclear industry, I will focus in this article on the problems existing between individualism and work de-motivation, and the risk of major industrial crises. In conclusion, I will discuss how this perspective on the organization of work, derived from the analysis of the employees' psychic pain, suggests a number of changes in order to increase the safety of industrial activities.

Organization & Environment, Vol. 7, No. 2, 77-89 (1993)
DOI: 10.1177/108602669300700202


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