Teoria das organizações: o poder no pensamento de Michel Foucault, com um olhar na universidade

Abstract

The organization theory involves many facets in our history, a group organized by people with common purposes, which form part of social networks of power, constituting forces of relationships and articulating in forms of visibility with institutional apparatuses. The exercise of power provides the knowledge which becomes the instrument of this power. In this context the thinker and scholar, Michel Foucault, has significant influence on the theory of organizations, revealing the power in organizational analysis. Thus, the present study can be understood as a synthesis and then an analysis of power and organizations. The study is exploratory and qualitative, based on bibliographic and documentary research. The objective of the research describes how Foucault's thought influenced the power of understanding of reflection in organizations and how educational institutions integrate this theory of organizations with educational and social processes in the educational universe. As a resultshareanalysisof education issues, their social functions, their university history, socialization processes and the human element component of society in line with the theories of educational organizations, providing the knowledge construction process.