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Images of Organization
May 2006 | 520 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
"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.
Listen to an interview with author, Gareth Morgan on The Invisible Hand podcast.
Go to http://www.theinvisiblehandpodcast.com/The_Invisible_Hand_Episode_38.mp3
— 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.
Listen to an interview with author, Gareth Morgan on The Invisible Hand podcast.
Go to http://www.theinvisiblehandpodcast.com/The_Invisible_Hand_Episode_38.mp3
Preface
Part I. An Overview
Introduction
Part 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 Realty: 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
Part III. Implications For Practice
10. The Challenge of Metaphor
11. Reading and Shaping Organizational Life
12. Postscript
Bibliographic Notes
Bibliography
An excellent book; this book delivers its content in an easy and very accessible manner, students really engaged with this book and the feedback was positive all round. This book is a must read for anyone looking at the workings of an organization.
Business School, Dublin City University (DCU)
September 3, 2014
It is more appropriate for the doc level class, where we do use it.
Leadership Studies, University Of San Diego
August 25, 2014
Morgan does an elegant job of framing organization theory in vivid language and a series of accessible conceptual frameworks - this is a terrific text for a management class
Grad School Of Public Affairs, Univ Of Colorado-Denver
August 25, 2014
An excellent book very helpful for undergraduate and postgraduate students interested organisational dynamics and change
Strategy & Marketing, University of Huddersfield
February 3, 2014
Th ebook is useful in supplementing knowledge to students who are taking organizational analysis under the HRM selection of courses.
School of Administrative & Financial Services, Saudi Electronic University
March 26, 2013
comprehensive; multiple perspectives
Counseling, Leadership, Adult Education and School Psychology, Texas State University - San Marcos
October 25, 2012
Well structured and interesting. Would though like and appreciate teaching instructions for the book. Some are awailable on internet but would be easier for us training students have more input on each case (metaphor) and how to match these to real life situations.
Entrepreneurship, Management and Organisation, Hanken School of Economics
May 7, 2012
Perfect - me the learning outcomes of the course.
College Of Business, Dallas Baptist University
February 14, 2012
A really good book - but discovered it would be too sophisticated for my students at CSU.
Business Economics Dept, Charleston Southern University
December 8, 2011