{"id":666,"date":"2007-11-22T23:46:21","date_gmt":"2007-11-23T03:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gillesenvrac.ca\/carnet\/2007\/11\/theories-de-lorganisation\/"},"modified":"2007-11-22T23:46:21","modified_gmt":"2007-11-23T03:46:21","slug":"theories-de-lorganisation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gillesenvrac.ca\/carnet\/2007\/11\/theories-de-lorganisation\/","title":{"rendered":"th\u00e9orie des organisations"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you want an excellent introduction to organization theory – I recommend Pfeffer\u2019s New Directions in Organization Theory: Problems and Prospects<\/a>.\u00a0 The book nicely covers key micro-issues, which many org theory\u00a0books don\u2019t do, and more generally the book is an excellent\u00a0lay-of-the-land introduction (for a different angle on the matter – see Peter Abell\u2019s excellent Organisation Theory: An Interdisciplinary Approach<\/a>).\u00a0\u00bb (Via orgtheory.net<\/a>.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Je suis d’accord, tout \u00e0 fait : Pfeffer a produit un petit bouquin tr\u00e8s stimulant. Et Karl Weick en fait ici une bonne pr\u00e9sentation<\/a>. Bon, ce n’est pas un livre r\u00e9cent (1997) mais qui a dit que la th\u00e9orie des organisations \u00e9volue si vite ?<\/p>\n

Je cite ici quelques phrases de la pr\u00e9sentation de Weick, qui me rappellent bien ce qui m’avait plu \u00e0 la lecture de Pfeffer : Reading Pfeffer is a bit like reading a book-length Annual Review of Sociology chapter on organizations.<\/cite><\/p>\n

Translated into the language of the chapters of this book, the field is about understanding the causes of behavior (chap. 2), models of behavior, the effects of composition, mechanisms of social control, the exercise of power and influence, organizational performance, a critical look at managerialism, and new directions. Alternatively, it could be argued that the field is about the five models of behavior discussed in chapter 3: economic, social, retrospective rational, moral, and interpretive.<\/p>\n

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There are some wonderful moments in the book. Chapter 5 on mechanisms of social control – rewards and incentives, commitment and socialization, organizational culture, leadership – and chapter 4 on composition are beautiful, compact summaries of sprawling literatures. He makes explicit the liabilities of housing investigations of organizational studies in business schools (e.g., p. 189). There are eye-catching insights scattered everywhere. Is organizational culture really all that important if the work force consists of part-time or independent contractors (p. 19)? Are charismatic leaders effective in part because they engage the mechanism of insufficient justification (p. 132)? Why does the idea of self-managing teams diffuse so slowly (p. 172)? Why, given the importance of the topic, is work on negotiation so narrow and unhelpful (p. 150)? Isn’t it likely that reorganization reinstates the liability of newness (p. 165)? If an intact organization tries to become more of a learning organization, then that attempted change may re-create its founding, complete with founders who founder.<\/p>\n

We see what high-paradigm topics such as economics and population ecology look like, and we see, in Pfeffer’s criticisms of each, how much a singular consensual focus can miss. Pfeffer is especially insistent that we need to resist economic and rational actor models, which is tough for people housed in business schools. Successful resistance would also seem to necessitate paradigm proliferation as people search for an alternative core focus. It is one thing to steer clear of entrenched, seductive temptations to rely on rational economic models of choice (p. 192). It is quite another to mobilize an alternative that is just as focused, consensual, and persuasive.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Notez que si le bouquin de Pfeffer co\u00fbte 50$ (quoi qu’on doit sans doute le trouver en biblioth\u00e8que), l’autre livre introductif sugg\u00e9r\u00e9 par Teppo Felin, un des blogueurs de ce carnet orgtheory.net, Organisation Theory: An Interdisciplinary Approach<\/a> de Peter Abell, est gratuit lui ! un PDF de 164 pages d’un professeur de la London School of Economics and Political Science. Rien qu’\u00e0 lire la table des mati\u00e8res, on se sent d\u00e9j\u00e0 plus intelligent \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you want an excellent introduction to organization theory – I recommend Pfeffer\u2019s New Directions in Organization Theory: Problems and Prospects.\u00a0 The book nicely covers key micro-issues, which many org theory\u00a0books don\u2019t do, and more generally the book is an excellent\u00a0lay-of-the-land introduction (for a different angle on the matter – see Peter Abell\u2019s excellent Organisation … <\/p>\n

Continuer la lecture de « th\u00e9orie des organisations »<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"atmosphere_disabled":false,"atmosphere_custom_text":"","_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[37,11,20],"class_list":["post-666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-apprendre","tag-developpement","tag-organisation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3433,"url":"https:\/\/gillesenvrac.ca\/carnet\/2010\/10\/revenus\/","url_meta":{"origin":666,"position":0},"title":"revenus de riches et le\u00e7on d’\u00e9conomie","author":"Gilles Beauchamp","date":"3 octobre 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Dans son article le plus r\u00e9cent, le m\u00eame Krugman y va d'une le\u00e7on sur les fondamentaux de l'\u00e9conomie, comparant l'analyse de la situation \u00e9conomique actuelle entre les \u00e9conomistes \"classiques\" et les keyn\u00e9siens (dont il est) : How The Other Half Thinks. 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