Does the Frame of Reference apply, irrespective of the enterprise’s size,

culture and sector of activity? Researching good practices centred on

SMEs

AMAROK Observatory

Florence Guiliani

SMEs are insufficiently theorised

They make up the economic fabric : 99.8% of the 16 millions entreprises of the European

Union are SMEs 99.9% of French entreprises

Stimulus to employment and growth :

SMEs are everywhere, except in the theoretical realm

EU France

Wage earning jobs

66.7% 52%

Added Value 58.6% 49%

GDP 55%

Theoretical constucts of labour and health

Concentration of employees of large entreprises

Little knowledge of employment in SMEs

Very little knowledge of workers who are not

wage-earners

AMAROK

First observatory of the health of SME Managers: shopkeeepers, craft workers and independent

professions

Tobacco

Risks of alcohol and tobacco addiction to be monitored for managers

5

Alcohol

26%smokers

2 x / week on average

Of whom29%

are strongly tobacco

dependent

94%alcohol

> 1 x / month

Of whom18% have

problematic consumption

7% are dependent

17%smokers

Benchmarks middle ranking and senior executives

WORKAHOLISM IN SME MANAGERS?

6

Hours worked

Long working days

7

Number of days worked in the week

9h52on average

per day

52h43on average per week

5,4 days

on average

Difficult reconciliation of working/family life for managers

9

No, not at all

No, generally not

Yes, completely

yes, generally

Difficulties in reconciling work and personal and family commitments

55%Yes

No, not at all

No, generally not

Yes, completely

yet, generally

Benchmarks middle and senior executives

35%Yes

Hours of sleep

Less sleep

10

6h25on average

per day

Difficulties in getting to sleep

13%

Waking too early

42%

Waking in the night

45%

Tired on getting up

43%

(often + all the time)

Sleep, a critical situation compared to that of executives

11

Enough sleep

19%No, not at all

8%No, not at all

Benchmarks middle and senior executives

Medicine taken to aid in sleeping

17%> 1x week

5%> 1x week

Benchmarks cadres MMS

Stimulants, sleeping pills, antidepressants

taken

Some typical phrases

« I’ve no time to be ill »

« I’ve no right to be ill »

I only fall ill when I am on holiday

« I like stress, it keeps me going »

The risk of burnout affects 1 manager in 10

13

0%

5%

10%

15%

20%

25%

30%

35%

40%

45%

1 2 3 4 5 6 7

score BMS

Pro

po

rtio

n

Health subject to time constraint

A strong leadership ideology

Need to come up with a preventive workplace

health for employers

General Conclusion

Does the Reference Framework apply, irrespective of the enterprise’s size, culture and sector of activity ?

Researching good practices centred on SMEs

AMAROK Observatory

Florence Guiliani