Le manager, la pause et le bien-être

If manager have to deal with the cognitive load of their staff, they are also responsible of their own equilibrium for what work investment and working time are concerned. Some have underlined that good managers should first take care of their own well-being ! This paper is about the relation to working time of managers, it takes ground on an American study amongst public administrative managers. It has been shown that pauses are useful because they allow more serenity in decision making, they give opportunity to take care of personal issues, and also because it opens opportunity to a renewed relation with other workers. Culpability is nevertheless a problem for some managers. It could be faced through some forms of rituals, and through external prescriptions.