Le pouvoir dans les organisations: Les références

by Henry Mintzberg

L'ouvrage de Henry MINTZBERG est une des plongées les plus convaincantes dans les réalités du pouvoir dans les entreprises. Il y met en lumière l'imbrication de l'autorité, de l'idéologie, de la compétence et de la politique pour définir six modèles dominants. Et examine comment ces configurations de pouvoir peuvent évoluer.

Enjeux Les Échos

Depuis sa parution, ce livre fait référence dans le domaine du management et dans celui des sciences sociales et politiques.

Il s'agit du troisième volet de la trilogie de Mintzberg consacrée aux organisations, avec Le manager au quotidien et Structure et dynamique des organisations. Il propose une analyse complète du pouvoir en présentant successivement les acteurs intérieurs et extérieurs, les différentes formes de pouvoir, et comment ces éléments se combinent entre eux de manière dynamique.

Sa grille de lecture est un outil exceptionnel pour comprendre avec finesse les jeux de pouvoir réels dans les organisations. Elle intéressera autant les chercheurs que les praticiens et les étudiants.

689 pages, Kindle Edition

First published February 1, 1983

About the author

Professor Henry Mintzberg, OC , OQ , Ph.D. , D.h.c. , FRSC (born September 2, 1939) is an internationally renowned academic and author on business and management. He is currently the Cleghorn Professor of Management Studies at the Desautels Faculty of Management of McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, where he has been teaching since 1968, after earning his Master's degree in Management and Ph.D. from the MIT Sloan School of Management in 1965 and 1968 respectively.
Henry Mintzberg writes prolifically on the topics of management and business strategy, with more than 140 articles and thirteen books to his name. His seminal book, The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning, criticizes some of the practices of strategic planning today and is considered required reading for anyone who seriously wants to consider taking on a strategy-making role within their organization.

He recently published a book entitled Managers Not MBAs Managers Not MBAswhich outlines what he believes to be wrong with management education today and, rather controversially, singles out prestigious graduate management schools like Harvard Business School and the Wharton Business School at the University of Pennsylvania as examples of how obsession with numbers and an over-zealous attempt at making management into a science actually can damage the discipline of management. He also suggests that a new masters program, targeted at practicing managers (as opposed to younger students with little real world experience), and emphasizing practical issues, may be more suitable.

Ironically, although Professor Mintzberg is quite critical about the strategy consulting business, he has twice won the McKinsey Award for publishing the best article in the Harvard Business Review.

In 1997 he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. In 1998 he was made an Officer of the National Order of Quebec. He is now a member of the Strategic Management Society.