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BACKGROUND: There are several characteristics of working in an urban environment that challenge t... more BACKGROUND: There are several characteristics of working in an urban environment that challenge the usual forms of work prescription. OBJECTIVE: This is a case study on the work of gardeners in an urban setting in the north of Paris. This paper develops the notion of territory, which we define as a system that is locally rooted in an open environment through the situated actions of gardeners’ work. As the employees do their work in an outside environment, interactions in real-life situations are beyond the control of work organization. City gardeners’ work is carried out in a green, living and human environment. METHODS: We conducted detailed open observations in a town’s green zones. These were complemented by individual interviews in work situations and by collective interviews within the boundaries of the municipality. RESULTS: We use the notion of territory to highlight the particularity of work within organizations where the work environment cannot be limited to the space insid...
International Journal of Primatology, Oct 1, 1992
Revue D Ecologie-la Terre Et La Vie, 1994
Revue D Ecologie-la Terre Et La Vie, 1994
Molecular Ecology, Sep 1, 2004
La mise en place et la transmission des comportements alimentaires chez la chevre creole est etud... more La mise en place et la transmission des comportements alimentaires chez la chevre creole est etudiee sur les savanes naturelles de la martinique
Work-a Journal of Prevention Assessment & Rehabilitation, 2012
International Journal of Primatology, Jun 1, 1992
Applied Animal Behaviour Science, Aug 1, 1992
Revue D Ecologie-la Terre Et La Vie, 1994
Advances in intelligent systems and computing, Aug 8, 2018
This text discusses the impacts of introducing new work tools that fall within the framework of a... more This text discusses the impacts of introducing new work tools that fall within the framework of a policy of sustainable development on the activity of gardeners in Parisian suburbs. Introduction of new tools without taking into account the gardener’s way of working and the organizational and temporal constraints leads to tensions. The analysis of the gardener’s activity shows that three forms of prescription guide his activity: (1) The hierarchical prescription comes from the work organization, (2) an implicit prescription comes from the residents for whom the gardeners work, (3) an individual prescription form the gardeners themselves with own rules built on personal experience. Oppositions between the directions given by the management, the capacity of the gardener to find a balance to carry out his own work activity and the adjustment between the 3 forms of prescriptions can appear. Tensions in the group of gardeners and with the managements characterize the organization. The lack of debate on how to proceed between the gardeners but also between gardeners and management, leads to contradiction between the three forms of prescriptions. The lack of discussion about methods in using the new tools and how they are integrated in the daily organization is the ground for these tensions. Our ambition here is to defend the need to create the conditions to discuss and deliberate on the forms of prescriptions in work organization with sustainable development issues.
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 1994
Revue d'élevage et de médecine vétérinaire des pays tropicaux, May 1, 1991
Work-a Journal of Prevention Assessment & Rehabilitation, 2012
Revue d'Elevage et de Médecine Vétérinaire des Pays Tropicaux, May 1, 1991
Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe - HAL - memSIC, 1994
Work (Reading, Mass.), 2012
Increased lifespan in western societies causes the increase of hospitalization in the old age, no... more Increased lifespan in western societies causes the increase of hospitalization in the old age, notably for patient showing forms of dementia including Altzheimer disease. These patients relate poorly to care givers and nurses, and cases of maltreatment have repeatedly been reported. To prevent abuse and increase patient's quality of life, Gineste and Pelissier (2007) proposed a philosophy of care based on the Humanitude® concept. Acknowledging that being human is being vertical and related to other humans, the pillars of Humanitude® are gaze, touch, talk, and standing. These modes of relation are systematically developed in care giving techniques derived from the concept. After several studies in geriatric hospitals, to assess psychosocial and ergonomic aspects of work, we present an analysis of the gap between the logic of human care and the logic of hospital organization, impacting employees work conditions and psychological welfare. Care giving is not only a "one to one&...
Folia Primatologica, 2004
Work
BACKGROUND: There are several characteristics of working in an urban environment that challenge t... more BACKGROUND: There are several characteristics of working in an urban environment that challenge the usual forms of work prescription. OBJECTIVE: This is a case study on the work of gardeners in an urban setting in the north of Paris. This paper develops the notion of territory, which we define as a system that is locally rooted in an open environment through the situated actions of gardeners’ work. As the employees do their work in an outside environment, interactions in real-life situations are beyond the control of work organization. City gardeners’ work is carried out in a green, living and human environment. METHODS: We conducted detailed open observations in a town’s green zones. These were complemented by individual interviews in work situations and by collective interviews within the boundaries of the municipality. RESULTS: We use the notion of territory to highlight the particularity of work within organizations where the work environment cannot be limited to the space insid...
International Journal of Primatology, Oct 1, 1992
Revue D Ecologie-la Terre Et La Vie, 1994
Revue D Ecologie-la Terre Et La Vie, 1994
Molecular Ecology, Sep 1, 2004
La mise en place et la transmission des comportements alimentaires chez la chevre creole est etud... more La mise en place et la transmission des comportements alimentaires chez la chevre creole est etudiee sur les savanes naturelles de la martinique
Work-a Journal of Prevention Assessment & Rehabilitation, 2012
International Journal of Primatology, Jun 1, 1992
Applied Animal Behaviour Science, Aug 1, 1992
Revue D Ecologie-la Terre Et La Vie, 1994
Advances in intelligent systems and computing, Aug 8, 2018
This text discusses the impacts of introducing new work tools that fall within the framework of a... more This text discusses the impacts of introducing new work tools that fall within the framework of a policy of sustainable development on the activity of gardeners in Parisian suburbs. Introduction of new tools without taking into account the gardener’s way of working and the organizational and temporal constraints leads to tensions. The analysis of the gardener’s activity shows that three forms of prescription guide his activity: (1) The hierarchical prescription comes from the work organization, (2) an implicit prescription comes from the residents for whom the gardeners work, (3) an individual prescription form the gardeners themselves with own rules built on personal experience. Oppositions between the directions given by the management, the capacity of the gardener to find a balance to carry out his own work activity and the adjustment between the 3 forms of prescriptions can appear. Tensions in the group of gardeners and with the managements characterize the organization. The lack of debate on how to proceed between the gardeners but also between gardeners and management, leads to contradiction between the three forms of prescriptions. The lack of discussion about methods in using the new tools and how they are integrated in the daily organization is the ground for these tensions. Our ambition here is to defend the need to create the conditions to discuss and deliberate on the forms of prescriptions in work organization with sustainable development issues.
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 1994
Revue d'élevage et de médecine vétérinaire des pays tropicaux, May 1, 1991
Work-a Journal of Prevention Assessment & Rehabilitation, 2012
Revue d'Elevage et de Médecine Vétérinaire des Pays Tropicaux, May 1, 1991
Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe - HAL - memSIC, 1994
Work (Reading, Mass.), 2012
Increased lifespan in western societies causes the increase of hospitalization in the old age, no... more Increased lifespan in western societies causes the increase of hospitalization in the old age, notably for patient showing forms of dementia including Altzheimer disease. These patients relate poorly to care givers and nurses, and cases of maltreatment have repeatedly been reported. To prevent abuse and increase patient's quality of life, Gineste and Pelissier (2007) proposed a philosophy of care based on the Humanitude® concept. Acknowledging that being human is being vertical and related to other humans, the pillars of Humanitude® are gaze, touch, talk, and standing. These modes of relation are systematically developed in care giving techniques derived from the concept. After several studies in geriatric hospitals, to assess psychosocial and ergonomic aspects of work, we present an analysis of the gap between the logic of human care and the logic of hospital organization, impacting employees work conditions and psychological welfare. Care giving is not only a "one to one&...
Folia Primatologica, 2004