ATTITUDES OF FRENCH MANAGERS REGARDING THE ADMINISTRATION OF THEIR FIRMS.

This article presents information on the attitudes of French managers regarding the administration of their firms. The malaise felt by managers has become an important feature of collective sensibility during the past two to three years, at least as it is articulated and disseminated by the mass media. The article investigates what real problems are hidden behind the fashionable clichés and hasty generalizations so readily employed and whether there is a real feeling of malaise. The author refers to the article "Etude Psychologique sur les Attitudes des Cadres Franç ais" published in 1971. This study reveals the existence of a considerable sense of anxiety among French managers and interprets it existentially by pointing to the crisis of civilization this anxiety reflects. The sense of malaise is real and is very widespread. But the perspective taken minimizes an interpretation in terms of a crisis of civilization and to place greater emphasis on the internal problems of companies.