Quand le contexte organisationnel d'une entreprise évolue, quelles sont les conséquences sur le rôle des managers ? La littérature traitant du travail managérial a longtemps considéré que le rôle du manager était stable et unique quel que soit l'environnement organisationnel dans lequel il prenait place. Pourtant les recherches en design organisationnel montrent que les évolutions profondes des modes de coordination ont un impact sur la hiérarchie et la chaîne d'encadrement verticale qui la caractérise, donc sur le rôle des managers dans la coordination. On peut alors se demander comment procéder pour faire évoluer les rôles managériaux. Quels leviers peuvent servir à transformer les pratiques des managers ? Pour étudier cette question, nous avons suivi pendant plusieurs années en recherche intervention une administration publique qui a entrepris de transformer ses rôles managériaux suite à une évolution forte de son environnement et de ses missions. Nous avons appliqué une grille d'analyse conçue à partir des travaux sur les dynamiques de rôles des managers qui permet d'étudier le nouveau rôle de manager et la capacité des managers à entrer dans ce rôle. Pour parvenir à jouer leur rôle les managers mobilisent des ressources cognitives, stratégiques et subjectives. Un diagnostic des ressources disponibles individuellement et collectivement est donc nécessaire pour étudier la capacité des managers à entrer dans le nouveau rôle.L'étude de la démarche de professionnalisation des managers mise en place dans cette administration montre la volonté de faire acquérir des compétences aux managers. Or nous démontrons la difficulté à expliciter et à transmettre ces compétences via ce type de formation. D'autre part les managers ne disposent pas collectivement des ressources stratégiques nécessaires pour faire ce qu'on leur demande. Et on constate parfois individuellement des déficits de ressources subjectives. On pourrait donc anticiper un blocage dans la dynamique d'appropriation des rôles.Une étude des évolutions sur plusieurs années permet de constater trois situations où les blocages sont levés :1. les rôles ne sont pas les mêmes pour tous les managers et certains disposent de davantage de ressources que les autres quand l'activité requiert une évolution forte de leur rôle. 2. quand ils ne disposent pas des ressources suffisantes, certains managers s'efforcent d'acquérir de nouvelles ressources 3. ou bien, il arrive que l'organisation évolue vers des situations de management partagé pour prendre en charge une fonction managériale que les managers ne peuvent prendre en charge, faute de ressources individuelles et/ou collectives suffisantes. / When organisational context is evolving, what are the consequences for the role of managers ? Litterature about managerial work considered for a long time that the managerial role was single and steady whatever was its organisational background. Nevertheless, researches in organizational design point that a deep development of organizational configuration impact the company's hierarchy and the managerial role of coordination. How to proceed to change managerial roles ? Which actions can transform managers practices?This thesis adressed this issue on the basis of a several years collaborative research in a public administration. This administration decided to transform managerial roles after a deep change of its environment and its missions. We applied an analytical framework built from a review of managerial identity work litterature. The framework guides us to study the new managerial role and how managers can perform this new role. The study implies a diagnosis of cognitive, strategic and subjective ressources available for managers individually and collectivelly.The case of a procedure of management professionalization, set up in this administration, shows the means used to have managers acquire new competences. This also shows how difficult it is to explicit and to transfer the managerial competences by this type of training. Moreover, managers don't have collectively the required strategic ressources to do what they are supposed to do. Besides, some managers don't have individually the needed subjective ressources. Hence a block of role dynamic could be anticipated.A study of evolutions during severals years allow to show three situations where block are resolved :1. roles are not the same for all managers and some of them have more ressources than others when activity requires a deep role evolution. 2. when ressources are insufficient, some managers tried to acquire new ressources. 3. or, sometimes the organization evolved towards situations of shared management to take charge of the managerial function, which managers can't stand because of a lack of ressources, collectively and/or individually.

Project management used to be described as rational and well structured - a notion that builds on a traditional view that project management is about planning, budgeting and controlling. Nevertheless, it has been questioned if this is a full description. Even though project management techniques were developed for large projects, those techniques and models are used today in small projects of short duration - projects that are quite dissimilar to the large ones. The present study takes a practice perspective to investigate what project managers do when they lead such short projects. Its observations and interviews are used to analyze what happens in the everyday life of project managers. Using classical managerial behaviour studies as a foundation, seen through a practice perspective lens, the study finds that the work of project managers in a software development project is fragmented – their time is filled with formal and informal meetings of different kinds and efforts to resist disturbances in the project. Three challenges were found in the project manager’s work. The first was to Understand: to create meaning. The plans were clearly defined at the start of the project but as the goals were later re-defined, it was scarcely possible to finalize them before delivery. Contrary to the traditional view that plans are inflexible, these plans were discussed, negotiated and interpreted throughout the project. This was the continuous work of creating both meaning in the plans and a common understanding of the project. The second challenge was to Order/coordinate: to manage resources. The project manager reacted to emerging issues rather than acting to prevent things from happening. These reactions led to creative ways of managing and finding solutions to problems. One important way of managing new or changed conditions was to reorganize resources to cover the needs of different teams. The meetings played a central role in this work as arenas for negotiating resources, which became especially evident in times of stress or high workload. The third challenge was to Make it in time: to manage time. Time is a central aspect of project management as projects are temporary organizations; they have a beginning and an end. Previous research has found a point in time, in the middle of a project, when the team starts to feel pressured and stressed about meeting their deadlines. For project managers there is always a struggle to manage time, as dates for delivery are one of the things in a project that are not negotiable. In short-duration projects where projects follow each other seriatim, there is an almost constant feeling of urgency; stress and pressure. The project manager used experiential data to determine and plan the amount of time that would be needed to manage changes in the project, intending that the slack created would enable the project to deliver on time. Although changes and deviations were expected, the project manager rarely knew beforehand what they were or when they would come. The three challenges, previously described as separated from each other, were observed to be all managed simultaneously. The site, the practitioner and the practices influence daily work practice.

Studiens syfte är att frambringa en ökad förståelse kring chefers informationsinsamling under distansarbete genom en jämförelse mellan två chefsgrupper inom olika verksamhetsområden. Chefsgrupperna utgörs av dels chefer inom produktionsledning och chefer i en administrativ ledning. Intentionen med en jämförande studie är att åskådliggöra skillnader i vilka alternativa tillvägagångssätt chefsgrupperna tillämpar i informationsinsamlingen under distansarbete. Tidigare forskning har avhandlat grunderna i chefsarbete samt chefsarbete på distans. Den aktuella studien fokuserar på chefsarbete under distansarbete via en jämförande karaktär där studien identifierat ett aktuellt forskningsgap. En jämförande studie är relevant för att åskådliggöra hur chefsgrupperna agerat vid omställningen mot distansarbete eftersom arbetet vanligtvis inte utförts på distans tidigare. Eftersom cheferna arbetar inom olika verksamhetsområden är det av intresse att belysa vilka skillnader som kan utläsas mellan grupperna. Studien tar sin utgångspunkt i den deduktiva ansatsen via kvalitativa intervjuer utförda med åtta stycken chefer inom olika företag fördelade på två chefsgrupper.  Resultatet påvisar att det existerar skillnader i tillvägagångssätten kring informationsinsamling för de olika cheferna. Från cheferna i produktionsledning kan urskiljas att ett delegerat arbetssätt varit ett genomgående förekommande tillvägagångssätt vilket effektiviserat informationsflödena och informationsinsamlingen inom organisationerna. En tydlig distinktion gentemot chefer inom den administrativa chefsgruppen är att cheferna inom den senare kategorin anammat ett större fokus på att utforma procedurer för att göra den digitala mötesformen mer effektiv och välfungerande. Anledningen är att det digitala formatet utgör det huvudsakliga forumet för att delge och samla in information under distansarbete. Skillnaden i tillvägagångssätt utgörs av de underordnades roll och arbetsuppgifter inom organisationerna. Eftersom de anställda som lyder under produktionsledningen fortsättningsvis behövt befinna sig fysiskt på arbetsplatsen för att upprätthålla verksamheten har cheferna modifierat ett arbetssätt anpassat efter förutsättningarna. Inom den administrativa gruppen har både chefer och anställda möjlighet att bedriva arbetet från distans vilket ställt krav på cheferna att finna effektiva tillvägagångssätt kopplat till digitala kommunikationsverktyg för att skapa förutsättningar att kunna samla in information om verksamheten. / The purpose of the study is to generate an increased understanding of managers' information gathering during telework through a comparison between two management groups in different business areas. The management groups consist of managers within operations management and managers in administrative management. The intention of a compared study is to visualize differences in which alternative approaches the management groups apply in the information gathering during teleworking. Previous research has discussed the premises of managerial work and managerial work during telework. The current study focuses on managerial work during telework via a comparison where the study identified a current research gap. A comparative study is essential to illustrate how the management groups have acted in the transition to telework, as the work has usually not been performed remotely before. Since the managers work in different areas of activity it is interesting to highlight the differences that can be read between the groups. The study is based on the deductive approach via qualitative interviews accomplished with eight managers in different companies divided into two management groups. The results show that there are differences in the approaches to information gathering for the various managers. In operations management it can be distinguished that a delegated method has been a common procedure, which has streamlined the information flows and information gathering within the organizations. An explicit distinction towards managers within the administrative management group is that the managers within the latter category have adopted a considerable focus on forming procedures to make the digital form of meeting more efficient and well-functioning. The reason is that digital communication is the main forum för communicating and gathering information during telework. The difference in approach consists of the role and tasks of the subordinates within the organization. As the employees who are under the operations management continued to need to be physically at the workplace to maintain the business, managers have modified a way of working adapted to the conditions. Within the administrative group both managers and employees have the opportunity to conduct the work remotely, which requires managers to find effective procedures linked to digital communication tools to create conditions for being able to gather information about the organization.

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Bakgrund: Chefers arbetsdagar är fragmenterade eftersom de ofta avbryts med problem som behöver lösas. I många fall är det medarbetare som förmedlar arbetsrelaterade problem i syfte att förbättra verksamheten. Hur chefer påverkas personligen i det dagliga arbetet läggs ingen större vikt vid utan det är oftare deras arbetsuppgifter som diskuteras. Men eftersom de inte kan styra och påverka alla processer som de är involverade i, kan de känna uppgivenhet. Om chefer får ökad kunskap om hur de kan hantera sin fragmenterade arbetssituation kan både deras och organisationens välbefinnande öka. Syfte: Att bidra med fördjupad kunskap om chefers beteende genom att studera deras känslor och agerande vid arbetsrelaterade problem. Metod: Studiens frågeställning har undersökts med de kvalitativa insamlingsmetoderna dagbok och semistrukturerade intervjuer. Totalt har nio respondenter medverkat i studien. Alla respondenter arbetar som chefer med medarbetaransvar. Resultat/Slutsats: Studiens resultat visar att chefer föredrar att hantera vardagliga arbetsrelaterade problem, som medarbetare förmedlar, genom: vägledning, ge stöd, samverkan, intuition, grundligt agerande, defensivt agerande, ultimatum, i förbifarten och skifta fokus. Resultatet visade även att cheferna såg det som en naturlig del av deras arbetsuppgifter att lyssna på medarbetarnas problem dels för medarbetares välmående, dels för företagets utveckling. / Background: Managers' working days are fragmented because they are often interrupted by problems that need to be solved. In many cases, it is employees who mediate work-related problems in order to improve the business. How managers are personally affected in their daily work is not given much importance, but it is more often their tasks that are discussed. But because they can not control and influence all the processes to which they are involved in, they can feel resigned. If managers gain increased knowledge about how they can deal with their fragmented work situation, both their and the organization's well-being can increase. Purpose: Contribute with deeper knowledge of managers’ behaviors by studying their feelings and actions related to problems at work. Method: The study's question has been investigated with the qualitative collection methods diary and semi-structured interviews. A total of nine respondents participated in the study. All respondents work as managers with employee responsibility. Results/Conclusion: The results of the study show that managers prefer to manage everyday work-related problems, which employees convey, through: guidance, providing support, cooperate, intuition, thorough action, defensive action, ultimatum, in passing and shifting focus. The results also showed that managers considered it a natural part of their job tasks to listen to the employees' problems, partly for the well-being of employees, partly for the company's development.

O objetivo da pesquisa foi potencializar a explicação da relação da aprendizagem e do trabalho do dirigente da pequena empresa conhecendo objetivamente o estilo e os papéis e compreendendo o seu significado subjetivo. O tema da pesquisa foi estudar o trabalho do dirigente da pequena empresa objetivamente, por meio de um levantamento e subjetivamente por meio da abordagem etnometodológica, juntamente com os estilos de aprendizagem do dirigente. Para isso o trabalho de campo foi realizado em duas fases: na 1ª fase a abordagem foi quantitativa: levantamento sobre os estilos de aprendizagem - por meio do inventário de estilos de aprendizagem de Kolb - e dos papéis do administrador - por meio do questionário utilizado na pesquisa de Oliveira (2010) que foi desenvolvido com base na abordagem dos papéis de Mintzberg (1973); na 2ª fase a abordagem foi qualitativa com estudo de caso etnometodológico e análise da conversação a fim de compreender a percepção dos dirigentes sobre seu estilo de aprendizagem e seu trabalho. Ao final, quantitativamente não foi possível estabelecer uma relação significante entre as variáveis estilo de aprendizagem, trabalho do dirigente e desempenho organizacional, porém, qualitativamente essas relações foram identificadas e explicadas. Também foi realizada uma triangulação dos dados quantitativos e qualitativos a fim de comparar os resultados e identificar a importância de cada técnica. / The aim of the study was to improve the relationship explanation between learning and work manager objectively knowing the style and the roles and understanding their subjective meaning. The theme of the research was to study the small business work manager objectively, through a survey and subjectively through the ethnomethodological approach, along the learning styles of the manager. So the fieldwork was conducted in two phases: the 1st phase was quantitative approach: survey on learning styles - through the Kolb inventory of learning styles - and administrator roles - through the questionnaire used in Oliveira survey (2010) that was developed based on the approach of Mintzberg roles (1973); the 2nd phase was a qualitative approach with ethnomethodological case study and conversation analysis in order to understand the perception of the managers on your learning style and your work. Finally, quantitatively could not establish a significant relationship between the variables learning style, manager work and organizational performance, however, these relationships were qualitatively identified and explained. A triangulation of quantitative and qualitative data was also performed to compare the results and identify the importance of each technique.

O objetivo da pesquisa foi potencializar a explicação da relação da aprendizagem e do trabalho do dirigente da pequena empresa conhecendo objetivamente o estilo e os papéis e compreendendo o seu significado subjetivo. O tema da pesquisa foi estudar o trabalho do dirigente da pequena empresa objetivamente, por meio de um levantamento e subjetivamente por meio da abordagem etnometodológica, juntamente com os estilos de aprendizagem do dirigente. Para isso o trabalho de campo foi realizado em duas fases: na 1ª fase a abordagem foi quantitativa: levantamento sobre os estilos de aprendizagem - por meio do inventário de estilos de aprendizagem de Kolb - e dos papéis do administrador - por meio do questionário utilizado na pesquisa de Oliveira (2010) que foi desenvolvido com base na abordagem dos papéis de Mintzberg (1973); na 2ª fase a abordagem foi qualitativa com estudo de caso etnometodológico e análise da conversação a fim de compreender a percepção dos dirigentes sobre seu estilo de aprendizagem e seu trabalho. Ao final, quantitativamente não foi possível estabelecer uma relação significante entre as variáveis estilo de aprendizagem, trabalho do dirigente e desempenho organizacional, porém, qualitativamente essas relações foram identificadas e explicadas. Também foi realizada uma triangulação dos dados quantitativos e qualitativos a fim de comparar os resultados e identificar a importância de cada técnica. / The aim of the study was to improve the relationship explanation between learning and work manager objectively knowing the style and the roles and understanding their subjective meaning. The theme of the research was to study the small business work manager objectively, through a survey and subjectively through the ethnomethodological approach, along the learning styles of the manager. So the fieldwork was conducted in two phases: the 1st phase was quantitative approach: survey on learning styles - through the Kolb inventory of learning styles - and administrator roles - through the questionnaire used in Oliveira survey (2010) that was developed based on the approach of Mintzberg roles (1973); the 2nd phase was a qualitative approach with ethnomethodological case study and conversation analysis in order to understand the perception of the managers on your learning style and your work. Finally, quantitatively could not establish a significant relationship between the variables learning style, manager work and organizational performance, however, these relationships were qualitatively identified and explained. A triangulation of quantitative and qualitative data was also performed to compare the results and identify the importance of each technique.