STRESS AT THE TOP: THE PRICE OF SUCCESS AMONG FRENCH CORPORATE PRESIDENTS

Abstract

Are top executives stronger and more resistant than the firm's managers they are leading? Is there a human cost in terms of psychic and psychosomatic trouble linked to the successful top manager? Until now, studies related to the top managers were confined to strictly neutral observations; observers did not dare talk about the mental equilibrium of the top executive under stress. It always was the “corporate strategy”, the “implementation of the strategy”, the “as if” approach to management which prevailed. “Organisations” were preferred to managers; in fact these taboos inhabited the corporate shrine. Top managers were individuals specifically to be protected from the “watchful eye” of academic organisational researchers.

Citation

Stora, B. and Cooper, C.L. (1988), "STRESS AT THE TOP: THE PRICE OF SUCCESS AMONG FRENCH CORPORATE PRESIDENTS", Employee Relations, Vol. 10 No. 1, pp. 13-16. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb055114