Images of Organization: Executive Edition - Brossura

Morgan, Gareth

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0761917527 ISBN 13: 9780761917526

Casa editrice: Sage Pubns, 1998

Riassunto

This pioneering work has now been abridged and revised to increase its accessibility and usefulness for today's practicing managers. It shows how managers can broaden and deepen their understanding of organization and organizational problems, and use powerful new metaphors to shape new ways of working.

This new Executive Edition retains all the vitality of the original and has been updated to integrate significant research of the last decade. It provides the kind of organizational "radar" system managers need to negotiate the demands of the twenty-first century.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Gareth Morgan is well known for his creative contributions to management. He is the author of seven books, including Images of Organization, Creative Organization Theory, Imaginization and Riding the Waves of Change. He acts as consultant and seminar leader to numerous organizations throughout Europe and North America, and is Distinguished Research Professor at York University in Toronto. He has sat on the editorial boards of the Academy of Management, and Organization Studies; and is a Life Fellow of the International Academy of Management. Born in Wales, he now lives in Toronto with his wife, Karen and their children Evan and Heather.

Contenuti:

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

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Sage Pubns
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0761917527
• ISBN 13: 9780761917526
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 349