TY  - BOOK
AU  - Morgan, Gareth
TI  - Images of organization
SN  - 9781412939799
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Los Angeles ; London ; New Delhi ; Singapore ; Washington DC ; Melbourne 
PB  - SAGE
KW  - HD INDUSTRIES. LAND USE. LABOR
KW  - Organization
KW  - Organizational behavior
N1  - PART I: AN OVERVIEW; 1. INTRODUCTION 3--; PART II: SOME IMAGES OF--; ORGANIZATION--; 2. MECHANIZATION TAKES COMMAND:--; ORGANIZATIONS AS MACHINES 11--; Machines, Mechanical Thinking,--; and the Rise of Bureaucratic Organization 13--; The origins of Mechanistic Organization 15--; Classical Management Theory:--; Designing Bureaucratic Organizations 18--; Scientific Management 22--; Strengths and Limitations of the Machine Metaphor 26--; 3. NATURE INTERVENESS:--; ORGANIZATIONS AS ORGANISMS 33--; Discovering Organizational Needs 34--; Recognizing the Importance of Environment:--; Organizations as Open Systems 38--; Contingency Theory:--; Adapting Organization to Environment 42--; The Variety of the Species 49--; Contingency Theory: Promoting--; organizational Health and Development 54--; Natural Selection: The Population-Ecology--; View of Organizations 59--; Organizational Ecology: The Creation of Shared Futures 62--; Strengths and Limitations of the Organismic Metaphor 64--; 4. LEARNING AND SELF-ORGANIZATION:--; ORGANIZATIONS AS BRAINS 71--; Images of the Brain 72--; Organizations as Information Processing Brains 76--; Creating Learning Organizations 81--; Cybernetics, Learning, and Learning to Learn 81--; Can Organizations Learn to Learn? 84--; Guidelines for ?Learning Organizations? 87--; Organizations as the Holographic Brains 97--; Principles of Holographic Design 99--; Strengths and Limitations of the Brain Metaphor 112--; 5. CREATING SOCIAL REALTY:--; ORGANIZATIONS AS CULTURES 115--; Culture and Organization 116--; Organization as a Cultural Phenomenon 116--; Organization and Cultural Context 118--; Corporate Cultures and Subcultures 125--; Creating Organizational Reality 134--; Culture: Rule Following or Enactment? 134--; Organization: The Enactment of a Shared Reality 137--; Strengths and Limitations of the Culture Metaphor 140--; 6. INTERESTS, CONFLICT, AND POWER:--; ORGANIZATIONS AS POLITICAL SYSTEMS 149--; Organizations as Systems of Government 151--; Organizations as Systems of Political Activity 156--; Analyzing Interests 157--; Understanding Conflict 163--; Exploring Power 166--; Managing Pluralist Organizations 194--; Strengths and Limitations of the Political Metaphor 202--; 7. EXPLORING PLATO?S CAVE:--; ORGANIZATIONS AS PSYCHIC PRISONS 207--; The trap of Favored Ways of Thinking 208--; Organization and the Unconscious 212--; Organization and Repressed Sexuality 212--; Organization and the Patriarchal Family 218--; Organization, Death, and Immortality 219--; Organization and Anxiety 221--; Organization, Dolls, and Teddy Bears 227--; Organization, Shadow, and Archetype 230--; The unconscious: A Creative and Destructive Force 234--; Strengths and Limitations--; of the Psychic Prison Metaphor 235--; 8. UNFOLDING LOGICS OF CHANGE:--; ORGANIZATION AS FLUX AND TRANSFORMATION 241--; Autopoiesis: Rethinking Relations With the Environment 243--; Enactment as a form of Narcissism: Organizations--; Interact with Projections of Themselves 246--; Identity and Closure:--; Egocentricism Versus Systemic Wisdom 248--; Shifting ?Attractors?: The Logic of--; Chaos and Complexity 251--; Managing in the Midst of Complexity 255--; Loops Not Lines: The Logic of Mutual Causality 263--; Contradiction and Crisis: The Logic of Dialectical Change 273--; Dialectical Analysis:--; How Opposing Forces Drive change 275--; The Dialectics of Management 280--; Strengths and Limitations of--; the Flux and Transformation Metaphor 287--; 9. THE UGLY FACE: ORGANIZATIONS AS--; INSTRUMENTS OF DOMINATION 291--; Organization as Domination 293--; How Organizations Use and Exploit their Employees 297--; Organization, Class, and Control 298--; Work Hazards, Occupational Disease,--; and Industrial Accidents 304--; Workaholism and Social and Mental Stress 213--; Organizational Politics and--; the Radicalized Organization 313--; Multinationals and the World Economy 315--; The multinationals as World Powers 319--; Multinationals: A Record of Exploitation? 322--; Strengths and Limitations of the Domination Metaphor 330--; PART III: IMPLICATIONS FOR PRACTICE--; 10. THE CHALLENGE OF METAPHOR 337--; Metaphors Create Ways of--; Seeing and Shaping Organizational Life 338--; Seeing, Thinking, and Acting in New Ways 341--; 11. READING AND SHAPING ORGANIZATIONAL LIFE 345--; The Multicom Case 346--; Interpreting Multicom 349--; Developing a Detailed Reading and ?Storyline? 351--; Multicom from Another View 358--; ?Reading? and Emergent Intelligence 361--; 12. POSTSCRIPT 363--; Bibliographic Notes 423--; 1: Introduction 367--; 2: The Machine Metaphor 369--; 3: The Organismic Metaphor 374--; 4: The Brain Metaphor 379--; 5: The Culture Metaphor 386--; 6: The Political Metaphor 390--; 7: The Psychic Prison Metaphor 395--; 8: The Flux and Transformation Metaphor 401--; 9: The Domination Metaphor 410--; 10: The Challenge of Metaphor 417--; 11: Reading and Shaping Organizational Life 418--; 12: Postscript 421--; Bibliography 423--; Index 000--
N2  - 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 Morgans renowned creative images and metaphors while refreshing the references and tables. The addition of a preface situates this classic theory in todays business environment while the instructors resources (now available on CD) aid classroom teaching.  ;  ; 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
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