Research Catalog

Title

Images of organization / Gareth Morgan.

Author

Morgan, Gareth, 1943-

Publication

San Francisco, Calif. : Berrett-Koehler Publishers ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, [1998], ©1998.

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Details

Description

xiii, 349 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

This pioneering work is based on a simple premise with profound implications: All organization and management theories are based on images, or metaphors, with paradoxical effects: they can create profound insights but also great distortions. With this seminal work, Gareth Morgan shows how managers can broaden and deepen their understanding of organization and organizational problems, and use powerful new metaphors to shape new ways of working.

Subjects

• Organizational behavior
• Management
• Organization

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-333) and index.

Contents

Pt. I. An Overview. 1. The Promise of Images of Organization -- Pt. II. Some Images of Organization. 2. Mechanization Takes Command: Organizations As Machines. 3. Nature Intervenes: Organizations As Organisms. 4. Learning and Self-Organization: Organizations As Brains. 5. Creating Social Reality: Organizations As Cultures. 6. Interests, Conflict, and Power: Organizations As Political Systems. 7. Exploring Plato's Cave: Organizations As Psychic Prisons. 8. Unfolding Logics of Change: Organization As Flux and Transformation. 9. The Ugly Face: Organizations As Instruments of Domination -- Pt. III. Implications for Practice. 10. Reading and Shaping Organizational Life. 11. Using Metaphor to Manage in a Turbulent World.

ISBN

• 1576750388 (Berrett-Koehler : trade : alk. paper)
• 0761917527 (Sage: academic : alk.paper)

LCCN

98010390

OCLC

• 38475191
• ocm38475191

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries