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Who we are
Established in 2007, SALINA is a firm expert in organizations and change management. Present in France and Thailand, our activity is as much oriented to private as public sector.
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What we do
You notice a structural or a cyclical slowing down without understanding the real reason. You identify organizational dysfunctions without been able to solve them.
You want to optimize your organization performance.
Your organization has to face up to mains transformations.
You have to implement a new project.
You want to build an efficient communication network.
We have helped companies to break the deadlock, contributed to maximize their potential, created consensus on ambitious project, and participated to their socioeconomic development.
The firm’s strength is based on the founder’s international expertise, Fabrice BRECHET. Socio-consultant in management, Fabrice has created a matrix allowing turning organizations inside out. Seeing what is hiding behind the organizational chart, it contributes to better manage the necessary changes to develop the companies’ economic performances.
The sociology practice in business is becoming essential in our professional environment. We not only need to be familiar with, but also must control it in taking advice from experimented practitioners. In this context, our role is decisive because it interprets your willingness and defends your position. Since ever, it is in that spirit that SALINA engraves its activity.
The idea of the consulting practice and the duty of our profession require to defend ethic toward clients, colleagues, and others society’s actors. This ethic is based on the total respect of the given trust, the loyalty in the negotiations, and the openness of the relationship.
SALINA is member of theProfessional Association in Business Sociology.
Organizational Audit I Break the deadlock
An organization is a human construct where the actors develop their own strategies, and
structure them in a whole of regular relationship subject to changeable constraints of the
environment, itself in constant movement.
Our organizational audit is fundamentally turned toward the sociology of organizations
comprehension and of its strategic analysis.
To see what is behind the organization chart, our action starts by the information collect on
your formal organization thanks to internal documents, then on your informal organization
thanks to interviews with key actors of the system. These information are next listed on a
matrix cross comparing this double organization, in order to show differences between what
stipulates the management and the staffs daily basis.
Change Management I Create consensus on ambitious projects
The change acceptation is facilitated when staff is integrated into an informal group, which
does not say to the organization. But the groups integration is not enough. He must also accept
the managements objectives. These two conditions are as much fundamentally different as
inseparable.
Since change could not be imposed and could not be reduced to a hierarchical decision, it
must be backed up with the apprenticeship of a new mode of relationship. Hence the interest
to train managers to understand the informal groups sociology in order to better leads a change
management strategy.
Worshop I How an organization is formed and could change
Sociology of organizations can improve the quality of the company's communications system
and from that contribute to its economical development. In this workshop we show that the
dynamism of a group of people does not depend only on the managers personality, the
socioeconomic context, or generous helps, but also from organizational principles.
Thanks to specific case studies and to discussion on your company own problematic, these
organizational principles are more accessible. Also, in addition to these constituents, we ease
the awareness allowing understanding how an organization is formed and could change.
Our solution was... Design a geographic map of all actors in the system and illustrate the communication networks. Decode the formal rules providing a solution to each problem.
Open up the organization’s uncertainty areas in creating spontaneous jobs affinities between working teams. Design individual trainings programs related to the company’s stakes.
Barriers
Problematic... Why our working teams are not cooperating more?
Is the geographic situation that hedging communication?
Our solution was... Reconstruct the mechanism of the goods flow from the sender to the receiver. Understand the role and the stakes of each actor in the system and define their zones of influence.
Reinforce the relation between the commercial and the operational leadership. Change the method of the cargo management in balancing their commercial importance and in giving more flexibility to the shipping’s rhythm.
Conflicting rationality
Problematic... How to prevent a shortage of fret and to satisfy our clients' delivery?
Our solution was... Identify the communications and authorities’ networks and understand their functioning. Assess the impact of the powers’ games on the organization.
Redefine each manager’s tasks. Create reflection and action’s committees by function in defining their operatives’ mode. Give autonomy to committees in giving them specific objectives and in decentralizing some decisions. Manage committees from a distance thanks to a management tool’s implementation, checking the alignment between actions and company’s objectives.
Organization chart
Problematic... How to have homogeneous teams and to reduce the number of meetings and emails to manage?
Our solution was... Determine the employees’ needs and motivations as well as the relationship modes between working groups. Check the employees’ social integration in the working groups and situate their concrete actions in the company.
Make a better interaction between employees and working groups, and allow everyone seizing the maximum of opportunities to improve the company’s productivity.
Slowing down
Problematic... Why deadlines are regularly deferred?
Clients
Anantara
Ascott
Auchan
Bedsupperclub
Burasari
Château d’Artigny
Centre Hospitalier Regional et Universitaire de Tours
Evason
Grand Circle Corporation
Hutchinson
Ibis
Lameloise
Landmark
Regional council
Sheraton
Sofitel
Spotmark
Taylor's University College
Partners
Acting for Life
Association Professionnelle des Sociologues d' Entreprises
Université Paris I
Université Toulouse I
Networks
French Chamber of Commerce in Singapore
Franco-Thai Chamber of Commerce
Linked In
Viadeo
Xing
SALINA PUBLICATION
OTHER PUBLICATION
The portable MBA in Entrepreneurship
William Bygrave & Andrew Zacharakis - Wiley 3rd edition 2004 - 494 pages
Complete coverage of what leading entrepreneur including concrete case studies and what you need to know to run a business effectively
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The ultimate training workshop handbook
Bruce Klatt - Mc Graw Hill edition 1999 - 605 pages
A comprehensive guide to leading successful workshops & training programs
Total Quality Management Blueprint
Barrie Dale & Heather Bunney - Blackwell Business edition 1999 - 275 pages
Project management - a managerial approach
Jack Meredith & Samuel Mantel - Wiley 6th edition 2006 - 666 pages
Learn how to select, initiate, manage risks, operate, and control all types of projects
Including 1 CD - Crystal Ball Professional + 1 CD Microsoft Project Pro 2003
Hotel operations simulation and auditing manual
Patrick Moreo & Gail Sammons - Pearson edition 2007 - 160 pages
Manual audit and practice using Micros/Fidelio - 3 CDs included
Managing implementation development projects
World Bank Institute 2006 - 65 pages - 1CD including 2000 pages materials
A milestone in the discipline of development project implementation. It contains practical learning materials based on decades of use in numerous worldwide projects.
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Main approaches
1
Audit your organization and give you a clear snapshop of your communication channels.
2
Facilitate changes in moving up the invisible part of your organization and integrate all actors to your system.
3
Conduct customized workshops allowing understanding how an organization is formed and could change.
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