Impacts de la reforme du reseau quebecois de la sante et des services sociaux (2003) sur la representation qu'ont les gestionnaires de leur travail

This thesis focuses on the work of Quebec health and social services centre (CSSS) managers following the implementation of this sector's reform in 2003, by the Minister at that time, Philippe Couillard. The re-engineering of the state in which this reform occurred was based on a certain representation of public organizations inspired by the New Public Management (NPM). In concrete terms, the reform has profoundly changed the context in which manager's work in these organisations.;In this context, the objective of this research was to understand the impact of this reform on the nature of the work being performed by health and social services centre (CSSS) managers. Using a micro-sociological approach and by adopting a comprehensive epistemological position, we were interested in examining how managers define their work in terms of the role they play within the organization. Moreover, we attempted to understand whether we are witnessing a change or a consolidation in their work representation following the reform.;Methodologically, we chose to conduct a multiple case study. We selected two CSSS's and we conducted forty-nine semi-structured interviews with managers from these CSSS.;In order to identify the representation managers have of their work two ideal types representing two opposing work representation were created. These ideal types have allowed us to determine that we are witnessing a homogenization of managers' representation of their work. In addition, following the Couillard reform, health and social services centre (CSSS) managers are more likely to adhere to a managerial representation of their role.;Above all, this thesis shows how this change takes place. It appears that the CSSS structure leads to working conditions that promote management work representation to some degree and impede others. Moreover, this new structure and the working conditions that accompany it have pushed the balance of power among managers. In doing so, certain sub-groups see their representations valued, and are able to impose them on their colleagues. If some managers are skeptical about these changes, it appears that very few of them have the means to resist.