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Images of Organization

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Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 1998 - Business & Economics - 349 pages
Images of Organization shows managers how to break free of management fads by understanding the strengths and weaknesses of management metaphors and applying them to organizational life. Instead of looking for the "best theory" or the "best model", managers learn how to mobilize the insights of all dominant metaphors -- of the machine, the living organism, the learning organization, complexity, chaos, and flux -- as a creative force.
  

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User Review  - Britton Bush - Goodreads

Interesting, provocative, and extremely useful method of analyzing organizations. The commentary, analysis, and examples that Morgan uses in 'Images or Organizations' aid perfectly in the presentation ... Read full review

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User Review  - Hafez Shurrab - Goodreads

For better understanding of how organizations may work, I recommend reading this book thoroughly. I started to better understand the theory of organizations when I have read it. It is very helpful for ... Read full review

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Contents

The Promise of Images of Organization
3
The Power of Metaphor in Organization and Management
4
Some Images of Organization
15
Mechanization Takes Command Organizations As Machines
17
Machines Mechanical Thinking and the Rise of Bureaucratic Organization
19
Strengths and Limitations of the Machine Metaphor
31
Nature Intervenes Organizations As Organisms
35
Discovering Organizational Needs
37
Strengths and Limitations of the Political Metaphor
174
Exploring Platos Cave Organizations As Psychic Prisons
181
The Trap of Favored Ways of Thinking
183
Organization and the Unconscious
186
Strengths and Limitations of the Psychic Prison Metaphor
206
Unfolding Logics of Change Organization As Flux and Transformation
213
Four Logics of Change
214
The Logic of SelfReference
215

Organizations As Open Systems
40
Adapting Organization to Environment
44
The Variety of the Species
50
Promoting Organizational Health and Development
52
The Population Ecology View of Organizations
57
The Creation of Shared Futures
61
Strengths and Limitations of the Organismic Metaphor
63
Learning and SelfOrganization Organizations As Brains
69
Images of the Brain
70
Organizations as Information Processing Brains
73
Creating Learning Organizations
76
SelfOrganization and Regeneration
92
Strengths and Limitations of the Brain Metaphor
107
Creating Social Reality Organizations As Cultures
111
Culture and Organization
112
Creating Organizational Reality
132
Strengths and Limitations of the Culture Metaphor
140
Interests Conflict and Power Organizations As Political Systems
147
Organizations As Systems of Government
149
Organizations As Systems of Political Activity
152
The Logic of Chaos and Complexity
222
The Logic of Mutual Causality
234
The Logic of Dialectical Change
242
Strengths and Limitations of the Flux and Transformation Metaphor
254
The Ugly Face Organizations As Instruments of Domination
259
Organization as Domination
261
How Organizations Use and Exploit Their Employees
264
Multinationals and the World Economy
282
Strengths and Limitations of the Domination Metaphor
291
Implications for Practice
297
Reading and Shaping Organizational Life
299
The Multicom Case
300
Reading and Emergent Intelligence
316
Using Metaphor to Manage in a Turbulent World
319
Excerpt from Imaginization New Mindsets for Seeing Organizing and Managing
323
Bibliography
329
Index
334
About the Author
350
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Images of organization
Images of organization
Gareth Morgan
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Images of organization
Gareth Morgan
Snippet view - 1997
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Gareth Morgan
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JSTOR: Images of Organization
Images of Organization, by Gareth Morgan. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage, 1986, 423 pp., $17.95, paper. Reviewed by Douglas R. Austrom, School of Business, ...
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Images of organization (2nd ed.), by Gareth Morgan. (1997 ...
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Organizational Culture Research Article
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Images of Organization — Summary | getabstract
Download the five-page summary of Images of Organization by Gareth Morgan (Berrett-Koehler, 1998). The Executive Edition.
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Metaphors of Organisation - Part 1 by James Lawley
Images of Organization. The central thesis of this book is that all theories of organisation and management are based on implicit metaphor, ...
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Akademika - alt av fagbøker
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About the author (1998)

Gareth Morgan is well known for his creative contributions to management. He is the author of seven books, including Images of Organization, Creative Organization Theory, Imaginization and Riding the Waves of Change. He acts as consultant and seminar leader to numerous organizations throughout Europe and North America, and is Distinguished Research Professor at York University in Toronto. He has sat on the editorial boards of the Academy of Management, and Organization Studies; and is a Life Fellow of the International Academy of Management. Born in Wales, he now lives in Toronto with his wife, Karen and their children Evan and Heather. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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TitleImages of Organization
Berrett-koehler Series
Images of Organization, Gareth Morgan
AuthorGareth Morgan
Editionabridged, illustrated
PublisherBerrett-Koehler Publishers, 1998
ISBN1609941470, 9781609941475
Length349 pages
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Business & Economics / Leadership
Business & Economics / Management
Business & Economics / Structural Adjustment
  
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