IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/spr/sprchp/978-3-030-38324-4_55.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

Savall, Henri: Connecting the Dots Between Organization Development and Economic Performance

In: The Palgrave Handbook of Organizational Change Thinkers

Author

Listed:
  • Véronique Zardet

    (University of Jean Moulin)

  • Marc Bonnet

    (University of Jean Moulin)

Abstract

Since the early 1970s, Henri Savall has developed the Socio-Economic Approach to Management. This approach consists of enhancing compatibility between social and economic performance by bringing an economic element to the process of organizational development and change. In his work with colleagues from the Iseor research center, he demonstrated the importance of uncovering huge amounts of hidden costs to spur organizational development processes that enable the conversion of hidden costs into both immediate results and the creation of potential. These hidden costs stem from organizational diseases, called dysfunctions, which resort to the lack of appropriate organizational development processes. Hidden costs can be categorized in six domains: working conditions, work organization, communication-coordination-cooperation, time management, integrated training, and implementation of the strategy. Economic balance of socio-economic projects implemented in many organizations over almost four decades have demonstrated that hidden costs can be converted into value added through socio-economic management tools. Converting hidden costs into value added enables high rates of return on investments, which is different from traditional business approaches where investments do not consider organizational development and human potential.

Suggested Citation

  • Véronique Zardet & Marc Bonnet, 2021. "Savall, Henri: Connecting the Dots Between Organization Development and Economic Performance," Springer Books, in: David B. Szabla (ed.), The Palgrave Handbook of Organizational Change Thinkers, edition 2, chapter 86, pages 1509-1525, Springer.
  • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-030-38324-4_55
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-38324-4_55
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-030-38324-4_55. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.springer.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.