Baptiste Rappin
The Philosopher's Perspective on Managerial Society
Associate Professor at the University of Lorraine, particularly at the Institute of Administration in Metz, I develop a philosophical and historical approach to management in my research work. To date, I have published 14 books and over 70 articles in scientific journals. I regularly speak in organizations, in various think tanks, and in the media to present the fruits of my reflection. My lectures mainly focus on the philosophical issues of contemporary management problems: definition of management, leadership, motivation, Generation Z, coaching, trust, etc. However, my training as a philosopher also allows me to give lectures on various societal topics: artificial intelligence, deconstruction (wokism), the political crisis, the philosophy of Silicon Valley, the success of Japanese manga in France, etc.
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At the Foundation of Management
In At the Foundation of Management: Theology of Organization (2014), Baptiste Rappin develops a philosophical and genealogical reading of management, very different from classical approaches in management sciences. His project is not to propose tools, but to think of management as a metaphysical and civilizational phenomenon. Rappin starts from an observation: our time is marked by a widespread proliferation of organizations (companies, administrations, schools, hospitals, NGOs…). He calls this the "panorganizational movement," meaning: the becoming-world of organizations and the becoming-organization of the world. In other words, organization becomes the dominant form of structuring all social reality, far beyond the economy. Management is not just a set of effective techniques. It constitutes a technoscience aimed at governing behaviors and increasing performance. It thus tends to transform all human activities into manageable processes, to convert institutions into functional devices, and to reduce humans to their adaptive skills. Rappin identifies cybernetics as the intellectual matrix of contemporary management because it articulates the notions of information, regulation, adaptation, learning, steering, etc., which have become central in management. Management thus inherits an imaginary of systemic mastery of the world, aiming for balance and total regulation. Finally, in the lineage of Taylorism, management aims to produce cooperation rather than conflict, organized harmony rather than individualism or class struggle. It is a project of social engineering intended to reconstruct an order after the ruptures of the industrial revolution.