Images of organization /

Morgan, Gareth,

Images of organization / Gareth Morgan. - Executive edition, 1st edition - Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Berrett-Koehler Publishers ; c1998. - xiii, 349 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.


TABLE OF CONTENTS

PART ONE: AN OVERVIEW
The Promise of Images of Organization

PART TWO: SOME IMAGES OF ORGANIZATION
Mechanization Takes Command

Organizations as Machines

Nature Intervenes

Organizations as Organisms

Learning and Self-Organization

Organizations as Brains

Creating Social Reality

Organizations as Cultures

Interests, Conflict and Power

Organizations as Political Systems

Exploring Plato's Cave

Organizations as Psychic Prisons

Unfolding Logics of Change

Organization as Flux and Transformation

The Ugly Face

Organizations as Instruments of Domination

PART THREE: IMPLICATIONS FOR PRACTICE
Reading and Shaping Organizational Life

Using Metaphor To Manage in a Turbulent World

Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-333) and index P. 334-349

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Organization.
Organizational behavior.
Management.

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