On a shelf still empty Office throne the thick volume of the Labour Code. Forty-seven years, Stéphane Roussel, loaded from little to orchestrate the human resources of Vivendi, always warning a copy under the hand. Because this HRD, claiming not to be a technician, consulted him repeatedly. At Xerox, where entered in 1985 for a graduate internship, he was given responsibilities increasing twelve years. In Carrefour, where he was one of the architects of a national, then global human resources policy. In SFR. Finally, where, became General Manager of human resources, it is is rubbed in 2004 to the first setbacks of the high-tech world. His credit: the implementation of the merger between SFR and Neuf Cegetel, the outsourcing of several call centres, or even the use of clever Web to counter a blog angry employees called "SFRencolère."
A chess player who likes challenges
SFR he is also the growth of its diversity and policy initiatives, such as the creation of the Arpejeh association to "Accompany the implementation of the projects of young students and students with disabilities". "Often, I have done something that be simply HRD", says Stéphane Roussel in Vivendi, to "manage subtly a motley group of 44.000 employees in which each company is autonomous and defends its mark". A challenge of chess player was forward to meet: "I need new, ambitious and complex." "Otherwise, I bored quite quickly", says Stéphane Roussel, who is not his language in his pocket. Man whose blue eyes probe interlocutors do not hesitate to put his eloquence at the service of his fancies: combat, for example, the anonymous CV: "If it is believed the richness of diversity, it does not gum identity!" he exclaims. Similarly, he argues for the "assessment Centers" to put a candidate in a professional situation before the recruit.
It is also on this simulation technique that this "shrink", a graduate of the Ecole de Paris practitioner psychologists, wrote his memory. At the time, Stéphane Roussel intended to treat psychotic children. Her internship at Xerox informed him of the virus of the company. But psychology still permeates his daily. Admirer of psychoanalyst Bruno Bettelheim, he advocates a distance with the emotional. "Some laid-off employees feel attacked personally." However this is not them that is at issue, but their function. "Should never be confused to be and the status", he says. What icing his critics. "It is very effective, says a trade unionist South in SFR.". It is what he says and says what it does. But in "human resources", it means that "resources".
A hardness that relatives reject. "Stéphane is extraordinarily sensitive." He'll never make you something that it does not, tells his friend coach Christine Dodeman. But he has an admirable ability to anticipate the future. As Chinese proverb, the sage shows the Moon of the finger, the fool looks at the finger, but Stéphane, he looks at the moon. "At the end of a career path that led him always above, this father of three children does not declare himself:"I have a good star who has never left me"