Violence within organizations in the health and medico-social sectors, comparative analysis France-Romania
Violence within organizations in the health and medico-social sectors, comparative analysis France-Romania

Summary/Abstract: Violence at work constitutes a social problem at the international level and,according to WHO (2002), is a global challenge. In the health and medico-social sector, itis increasingly expressed in political, institutional and professional concern. This is thecase in France and Romania. However, the figures which covers this phenomenon in eachof these two countries, are they identical? So that's a comparison we're looking at. The aimof this article is to present the theoretical and methodological framework of thecomparison, specifying the segments studied, after identifying possible nationalparticularities in the way of apprehending violence in the health and medico-social sector.In order to avoid falling into the trap of ethnocentrism, we choose to construct a definitionof violence not from predefined categories, but the experience of the individual, in this casecaregivers, which will be the focus of this comparative research. The thesis of the researchis that the experience of violence of the health professionals is related to the specificities ofthe organization (which requires to study the social relations of work) and the relation ofservice (which leads to analyze the Relations between users and professionals), whosetransformations are specific to each of the national contexts.The first objective of this research is an objective of knowledge: what is the prevalence ofthe phenomenon in each of the two countries selected? How is it reflected in each nationalcontext? What are the patterns of violence from one country to another? Can we identifycommon figures? Do national specificities appear?The second objective is explanatory; We will seek to identify the factors by which theexperience of professional violence varies. We hypothesize that the experience of violence isall the stronger (at the individual level) and more widespread (at the level of a service, aunit or an institution) than the relationship with the profession of caregivers Is distant fromthe conditions of practice on the one hand and institutional expectations on the other. Wehypothesize that the experience of violence varies according to the type of response theorganization gives to violence, the lack of response exacerbating the feeling of violence.Our third hypothesis is that the victim's expression varies in the opposite direction to thesense of institutional and professional recognition of caregivers. In order to understand thecaregivers' experience, and in line with the epistemological approach adopted, we willcarry out a victimization survey asking the respondents what they experience as violence inthe exercise of their profession while collecting data on their profession (work, professionalideology), relations within the service and with users and their families, and data on theorganization (service, unit, establishment) and its functioning.

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