Images of Organization
by Gareth Morgan
Published by : Sage Publications (USA) , 1997, , Illustrator: ill. Physical details: 485 pages, 23 cm. ISBN:0-7619-0631-2; 978-0-7619-0631-5; 0-7619-0632-0; 978-0-7619-0632-2; 978-0-7619-0633-9; 0-7619-0634-7; 978-0-7619-0634-6.| Item type | Current location | Shelving location | Classification | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Central Papal Library | GA8L | Applied Sciences العلوم التطبيقية | Available | 62001 |
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.
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