As part of a research paper entitled “Legitimacy, Particularism and Employee Commitment and Justice” and published in the Journal of Business Ethics, journal 4* NEOMA (Rang 1 FNEGE, Rang2 CNRS), Helena González-Gómez, Professor in the People & Organizations department, in collaboration with Sarah Hudson and Cyrlene Claasen (Rennes School of Business), examine the practice of corporate patronage and its impact on employee engagement.
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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