The organizations, the power and Michel Foucault / Las organizaciones, el poder y Michel Foucault

Abstract

Max Weber alleged that power and domination coexist in organizations; and that power is the ability to attain certain resources (economic, force, knowledge, etc.). When an organization is operating -using these resources, e.g., power-, and requires that orders are observed, domination must be applied under the logic of the administrative framework. This assumption attributes, as expected, a very reactionary role to the administration. Foucault rephrases the dilemma using the microphysics of power, relieving the administration of any suspicion of conservatism.

Keywords

• Domination
• power
• epistemology
• administrative framework
• control
• Foucault