Gareth Morgan 
Images of Organization [EPUB ebook] 

‘What a ‘kick’ I get out of teaching from Images of Organizations. What a head-snapping view of organizations it offers to my MBA students, as well as to the odd client/executive who is disposed to creep out of the practicality of business-as-usual and take in a vibrant thrilling view of organizations.’
— Ariane David, Ph.D.,
Senior Advisor/President, The Veritas Group


Since its first publication over twenty years ago,
Images of Organization has become a classic in the canon of management literature. The book is based on a very simple premise—that all theories of organization and management are based on implicit images or metaphors that stretch our imagination in a way that can create powerful insights, but at the risk of distortion. Gareth Morgan provides a rich and comprehensive resource for exploring the complexity of modern organizations internationally, translating leading-edge theory into leading-edge practice.  



This new
Updated Edition preserves Morgan′s renowned creative images and metaphors while refreshing the references and tables.  The addition of a preface situates this classic theory in today′s business environment while the instructor′s resources (now available on CD) aid classroom teaching.   Please contact SAGE customer service to order your copy.




Images of Organization challenges and reshapes how we think about organization and management in the most fundamental way. The new
Updated Edition makes this monumental work available to a new generation of students and business leaders worldwide.

Зміст

Preface

Part I. An Overview

Introduction

Part II. Some Images of Organization

2. Mechanization Takes Command: Organizations as Machines

Machines, Mechanical Thinking, and the Rise of Bureaucratic Organization

The Origins of Mechanistic Organization

Classical Management Theory: Designing bureaucratic organizations

Scientific Management

Strengths and Limitations of the Machine Metaphor

3. Nature Intervenes: Organizations as Organisms

Discovering Organizational Needs

Recognizing the Importance of Environment: Organizations as Open Systems

Contingency Theory: Adapting Organization to Environment

The Variety of the Species

Contingency Theory: Promoting Organizational Health and Development

Natural Selection: The Population-Ecology View of Organizations

Organizational Ecology: The Creation of Shared Futures

Strengths and Limitations of the Organismic Metaphor

4. Learning and Self-Organization: Organizations as Brains

Images of the Brain

Organizations as Information Processing Brains

Creating Learning Organizations

Cybernetics, Learning, and Learning to Learn

Can Organizations Learn to Learn?

Guidelines for ‘Learning Organizations’

Organizations as Holographic Brains

Principles of Holographic Design

Strengths and Limitations of the Brain Metaphors

5. Creating Social Realty: Organizations as Cultures

Culture and Organization

Organization as a Cultural Phenomenon

Organization and Cultural Context

Corporate Cultures and Subcultures

Creating Organizational Reality

Culture: Rule Following or Enactment?

Organization: The enactment of a Shared Reality

Strengths and Limitations of the Cultural Metaphor

6. Interests, Conflict, and Power: Organizations as Political Systems

Organizations as Systems of Government

Organizations as Systems of Political Activity

Analyzing Interests

Understanding Conflict

Exploring Power

Managing Pluralist Organizations

Strengths and Limitations of the Political Metaphor

7. Exploring Plato′s Cave: Organizations as Psychic Prisons

The Trap of Favored Ways of Thinking

Organization and the Unconscious

Organization and Repressed Sexuality

Organization and the Patriarchal Family

Organization, Death, and Immortality

Organization and Anxiety

Organization, Dolls, and Teddy Bears

Organization, Shadow, and Archetype

The Unconscious: A Creative and Destructive Force

Strengths and Limitations of the Psychic Prison Metaphor

8. Unfolding Logics of Change: Organization as Flux and Transformation

Autopoiesis: Rethinking Relations With the Environment

Enactment as a Form of Narcissism: Organizations Interact With Projections of Themselves

Identity and Closure: Egocentrism Versus Systemic Wisdom

Shifting ‘Attractors’: The Logic of Chaos and Complexity

Managing in the Midst of Complexity

Loops, Not Lines: The Logic of Mutual Causality

Contradiction and Crisis: The Logic of Dialectical Change

Dialectical Analysis: How Opposing Forces Drive Change

The Dialectics of Management

Strengths and Limitations of the Flux and Transformation Metaphor

9. The Ugly Face: Organizations as Instruments of Domination

Organization as Domination

How Organizations Use and Exploit Their Employees

Organization, Class, and Control

Work Hazards, Occupational Disease, and Industrial Accidents

Workaholism and Social and Mental Stress

Organizational Politics and the Radicalized Organization

Multinationals and the World Economy

The Multinationals as World Powers

Multinationals: A Record of Exploitation?

Strengths and Limitations of the Domination Metaphor

Part III. Implications For Practice

10. The Challenge of Metaphor

Metaphors Create Ways of Seeing and Shaping Organizational Life

Seeing, Thinking, and Acting in New Ways

11. Reading and Shaping Organizational Life

The Multicom Case

Interpreting Multicom

Developing and Detailed Reading and ‘Storyline’

Multicom From Another View

‘Reading’ and Emergent Intelligence

12. Postscript

Bibliographic Notes

Introduction

The Machine Metaphor

The Organismic Metaphor

The Brain Metaphor

The Culture Metaphor

The Political Metaphor

The Psychic Prison Metaphor

The Flux and Transformation Metaphor

The Domination Metaphor

The Challenge of Metaphor

Reading and Shaping Organizational Life

Postscript

Bibliography

Про автора

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.