Gareth Morgan
Images of Organization - USA Sage Publications 1997 - 485 ill. 23
pt. I. An overview -- 1. Introduction -- 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. The challenge of metaphor -- 11. Reading and shaping organizational life -- 12. Postscript.
A provocative new book on how we can see, understand, and manage organizations in new ways.
0761906312 9780761906315 0761906320 9780761906322 9780761906339 0761906347 9780761906346
1996
96035682
English
Organization
Organizational behavior
Management
Decision Making, Organizational
Organizational Innovation
General
Images of Organization - USA Sage Publications 1997 - 485 ill. 23
pt. I. An overview -- 1. Introduction -- 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. The challenge of metaphor -- 11. Reading and shaping organizational life -- 12. Postscript.
A provocative new book on how we can see, understand, and manage organizations in new ways.
0761906312 9780761906315 0761906320 9780761906322 9780761906339 0761906347 9780761906346
1996
96035682
English
Organization
Organizational behavior
Management
Decision Making, Organizational
Organizational Innovation
General