Abstract
Organizations are not only business organizations but include the army, the administration, the education system etc… «Organizations are omnipresent in modern societies. Individuals are born in a health organization, are trained for years in educative organizations, then are employed in professional organizations which pay them salaries which enable them to become clients of diverse market organization or public organizations » wrote Mintzberg.
The worker often appears to be a simple cog in the bureaucratic wheel, who, like Adolf Eichmann or Maurice Papon, contents himself with executing directives taken at a higher level. For example, the Nuremberg Defense stated that the accused were "just following orders" and were therefore not responsible for their crimes. However, the example of the World War II Resistance shows that the individual in the organization keeps a room for manoeuvre and a certain free will. Thus, can we argue that the Organization Man is irresponsible?
