- Activity manager. Teacher-researcher. LEST member.
Humanities and Social Sciences
Campus: Toulon
+ 336 19 67 33 21
The future of social sciences is to create social change
Core business
Engineers design, manufacture and arrange the world around them with their dreams, their techniques and their tools. In a world that is reaching its physical limits, in which our activities and techniques have an impact on biodiversity, climate and social equilibrium, this is an immense task and a great responsibility. And to do this, we need tools adapted to this world, as well as sincere ethical reflection. These questions (tools and engineering ethics) are at the heart of my work as a teacher and researcher.
After studying collective innovation processes as part of my thesis work, I'm now looking at the methods, tools and rules for working together. Over the past 60 years, we've been working together in companies, soccer teams, prisons and hospitals, following some rather bizarre rules known as "Management". Now, I think these rules stem from a slightly outdated vision of the world, a world infinite in resources, a world where man is separated from the living, which it's time to revisit.
Prospective
According to many geologists, we have entered the Anthropocene era. An era in which human activity is the main geological force. For this Anthropocene to be sustainable, for it not to rhyme with the destruction of our own ecological niche, we must conceive our technologies and our uses in a very different way.
I therefore propose to my students to discover totally new tools to imagine and manufacture more responsible, more viable, more sustainable technologies.
On the research side, I develop an alternative corpus to traditional management. This body of work includes management tools inspired by permaculture, and design tools centered on the living.
About me
Doctor in Human and Social Sciences, and graduate of Edhec (1996), I have been interested in innovation processes, management evolutions and the environment for more than 25 years. I am an associate researcher at LEST (Laboratoire d'Economie et de Sociologie du Travail), consultant and trainer.
Areas of expertise
On the methodological side, I am an expert in Action Research theories and methods that promote innovation and transformation of uses and organizations. I use in particular Otto Scharmer's Theory-U, Co-Design, ethnography and Sociology of the Network Actor (SAR).
I am also at the origin of Permanagement, which is a collaborative corpus aiming at developing an alternative to classical management in order to coordinate collective action by taking inspiration from the living (via permaculture tools) and by taking care of the living. The goal of this body of work is to design organizations that fit into the safe and just space of Doughnut Economics.
Finally, I am trained in various behavioral skills development approaches, such as Nonviolent Communication (NVC) and Mindfulness Meditation (I am a meditation teacher in the process of being certified by MMTCP).
My research and expertise are applied in the fields of digital usage design, organizational design, and pedagogical engineering, whenever these uses, organizations or training programs aim at a strong social and/or environmental impact.
Research and development activities
I carry out action research and analysis projects for companies and local authorities, such as (non-exhaustive list):
- The SUD region (creation of the Observatory of the Information Society)
- The Aquitaine region (study on the mobilization of third places in response to the Covid 19 crisis)
- The Apprentis d'Auteuil Foundation (co-design of a training program for young graduates who are far from the school system)
- La Fabulerie (co-design of a support program for women entrepreneurs in the creative industry)
- Gemalto / Thalès (co-design of Human/Machine interfaces for an authentication application)
I participate in collaborative R&D projects, financed by Europe, France or the South Region, in particular on tasks of co-design and analysis of uses.
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Teaching activities
I have designed and directed training programs and masters programs in engineering schools, or for executive programs for managers. I give courses in the Humanities and Social Sciences, at Bachelor's and Master's level, and in particular in the following areas:
- Design of innovative and responsible solutions
- Sociology of Uses
- Theory U of organizational transformation
- Permanagement, alternative management
- Stress Management through Mindfulness
- Non Violent Communication
- Ethics of NICTs
Publications
Guillaume PÉROCHEAU: "Le Permangement" , DOI 0.13140/RG.2.2.12850.50889 (2018) https://www.researchgate.net/publication/322641997_Le_Permanagement
Guillaume PÉROCHEAU, Chistophe SEMPELS, Alexis DURAND: "Entreprise du territoire versus entreprise de territoire: Apport du zonage et de l'analyse des bordures sur le développement socio-économique et écologique des territoires" - Under review (2022)
Guillaume PÉROCHEAU: "Mindfulness in workplaces: could it be more spiritual?"-11thOrganization StudiesWorkShop, Mykonos, Greece, 2016
Alena SHIARHEYEVA & Guillaume PÉROCHEAU: "The ICI LAB experience: designing and running a versatile space to facilitate the implementation of collective learning processes in Higher Education."-IFKAD 2016,International Forum on Knowledge Asset Dynamics, Dresden, Germany; 06/2016
Guillaume PÉROCHEAU: "Using a user centered methodology to drive open data initiatives. Lessons learned from the U-Home Case." IFKAD 2014 International Forum on Knowledge Asset Dynamics, Matera, Italy; 06/2014
OIRYE wan, BIDART Claire, BROCHIER Damien, GARNIER Jacques, GILSON Adeline, LONGO Maria Eugenia, MENDEZ Ariel, MERCIER Delphine, PASCAL Amandine, PEROCHEAU Guillaume and TCHOBANIAN Robert : "Propositions pour un cadre théorique unifié et une méthodologie d'analyse des trajectoires des projets dans les organisations", Management & Avenir, 6 (36), p.84-107. DOI: 10.3917/mav.036.0084.
Guillaume PEROCHEAU, Mario CORREIA: "Les moteurs: principes génératifs du mouvement dans les processus". Processus. Concepts and methods for temporal analysis in the social sciences,Academia, Bruylant, coll. "Intellection", 2010, 260p., EAN: 9782872099849.
Guillaume PEROCHEAU: "What makes the MEMORY process "work"?" Process. Concepts and methods for temporal analysis in the social sciences, Academia, Bruylant, coll. "Intellection", 2010, 260p., EAN: 9782872099849.
Guillaume PEROCHEAU: "How to support collaborative projects in competitive clusters". Management des entreprises innovantes à l'heure des pôles de compétitivité -Les colloques du PESOR, Mar 2007, Sceaux, France