Emotions, are very common words used in both personal and professional contexts. It is a process that it starts with a stimulus leads us to cognitive and physiological responses and then take us to behavior or action tendancies. They may arrive for a variety of reasons and the cause or stimulus is not always obvious. Sometimes it’s a characteristic of the environment that makes us feel emotionally aroused. They also need to be differentiated from related terms like moods, dispositional feelings or affect.
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15ème Prix académique de la recherche en management – Prix Syntec Conseil 2024
Professionals tend to strongly resist breaking from their professions’ core cultural tenets and it is unclear how some may voluntarily break from deeply ingrained views. Through our study of French anesthesiologists who practice hypnosis, we aim to better understand this little-explored phenomenon. Adopting hypnosis, a technique that many anesthesiologists consider subjective, contradicted a core tenet of their profession: the need to only use techniques validated by rigorous scientific-based research. Drawing on interviews and observations, we analyze how these anesthesiologists were able to change their views and reinvent their work. We find that turning inward to oneself (focusing on their own direct experiences of clients) and turning outward to clients (relying on relations with clients) played critical roles in anesthesiologists’ ability to shift their views and adopt hypnosis. Through this process, these anesthesiologists embarked on a voluntary internal transformation, or reboot, whereby they profoundly reassessed their work, onboarded people in adjacent professions to accept their own reinvention, and countered isolation from their peers.
BOURMAULT Nishani - NEOMA Business School |
- Research
- Health Sector Management, Organizational Theory