December 5, 2017
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Stéphane Pounchou-Guilhamot, « Preventing job-related psycho-social risks among teachers in public secondary schools », Theses.fr, ID : 10670/1.vqvxjt
Preventing psycho-social risks is a widely-discussed issue in organizations. Teachers are no exception. Even though there have been some actions to tackle this problem among teachers, they have hardly been efficient. Thus, we may wonder what the conditions to set up an efficient primary prevention of psycho-social risks among teachers are. Our study will focus on public secondary school teachers. We aim at suggesting answers to this question. To do so, we have started from literature and analysed the strategies of preventing psycho-social risks among teachers. We have realized that these strategies are mainly individual, that is to say they focus on the teacher as, per se, the explanatory factor of psycho-social risks – taking into account a system narrowed down to the “teacher-students” elements only. From our perspective, this view is simplistic. Our reflection leads us to consider the system through complex thought. Consequently, we suggest a new system in which the teacher is one element among many others.We had to experiment this complex system on the ground. Our investigation, which was mainly qualitative, has consisted in approaching and then analysing the perceptions of the interacting actors. This experiment confirmed that preventing psycho-social risks has to be considered in a complex system which the teacher is part of. We argue that each element of this system has to play an active role in order to achieve an efficient primary prevention of psycho-social risks.