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QPR 2 Charlton 1
Dexter Blackstock struck twice as Paulo Sousa got off the mark as QPR boss and left managerless Charlton marooned in the bottom three of the Coca-Cola Championship.
Therry Racon's first goal in English football looked to have secured the beleaguered Addicks a point when he cancelled out Blackstock's opener.
But the Rangers striker grabbed his ninth goal of the season 10 minutes from full-time to condemn Charlton to another defeat.
Sousa, the sixth man in charge of Rangers in little over a year, received warm applause when he was introduced before kick-off, although Loftus Road's lowest league crowd of the season turned out to greet their new boss.
The ex-Portugal playmaker endured a chastening 3-0 defeat in his opening match in charge at Watford on Saturday, but he was punching the air in delight after 17 minutes of his first home game when Damiano Tommasi ambled down the left wing and crossed for Blackstock to slot past Nicky Weaver.
Charlton caretaker boss Phil Parkinson, at the helm following Saturday's departure of Alan Pardew, handed a debut to veteran Northern Ireland winger Keith Gillespie following his loan move from Sheffield United.
It was the 5-2 home defeat by the Blades which spelt the end for Alan Pardew, and Charlton are now without a win in nine matches and staring at a relegation battle.
Gillespie and teenage Sunderland loanee Martyn Waghorn were at least lively additions to the side, and the latter got their first sight of goal with an angled drive which flew into the side-netting.
Gillespie then sent in a low shot which Radek Cerny comfortably dealt with, before Charlton drew level on the half-hour.
Racon played the ball out to Hamuer Bouazza on the left, and although the winger's initial touch let him down he recovered to ping in a low cross.
Cerny and the Rangers rearguard hesitated to allow Racon, on his return to the side following a broken metatarsal, to sidefoot the equaliser into an empty net.
Waghorn was denied a goal shortly after the break when he latched onto Bouazza's cut-back only for Damien Delaney to whip the ball off his foot with a last-ditch challenge.
Linvoy Primus hit the roof of the net with a volley while, for Rangers, Blackstock headed wide and Patrick Agyemang blazed over.
Charlton captain Mark Hudson should have hit the target but his header from Gillespie's cross flew wide.
And moments later Blackstock stole the points when he headed Hogan Ephraim's deep cross past Weaver.
Teams:
QPR Cerny, Ramage, Stewart, Gorkss, Delaney, Ephraim,Tommasi (Mahon 62), Leigertwood, Parejo (Ledesma 73),Di Carmine (Agyemang 46), Blackstock.
Subs Not Used: Cole, Oastler.
Booked: Leigertwood, Delaney, Ephraim.
Goals: Blackstock 17, 80.
Charlton Weaver, Cranie (Sam 82), Primus, Hudson, Youga,Gillespie, Racon, Semedo, Bouazza, Waghorn (Varney 62), Gray.
Subs Not Used: Elliot, Holland, Fortune.
Booked: Hudson.
Goals: Racon 30.
Att: 12,286
Ref: Keith Stroud (Hampshire).
