Images of Organization is a bestseller book by Gareth Morgan, professor of organizational behavior and industrial relations at the Schulich School of Business at York University in Toronto, which attempts to unveil organization via a number of metaphors. It was first published in 1986.
 Book cover | |
| Author | Gareth Morgan |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Subject | Management, Organizational studies |
| Genre | Nonfiction |
| Publisher | Sage Publications |
Publication date | originally published in 1986 |
| Pages | 520 |
| ISBN | 978-1-4129-3979-9 |
The book particularly describes the organization metaphorically as (1) machines, (2) organisms, (3) brains, (4) cultures, (5) political systems, (6) psychic prisons, (7) flux and transformation, and (8) instruments of domination.
References edit
- A review of Images of Organization by Matthew J. Lambert III, Complicity: An International Journal of Complexity and Education Volume 6 (2009), Number 2 • pp. 156–158.
- Örtenblad, Anders; Putnam, Linda L; Trehan, Kiran (2016). "Beyond Morgan's eight metaphors: Adding to and developing organization theory". Human Relations. 69 (4): 875–889. doi:10.1177/0018726715623999. ISSN 0018-7267.
See also edit
- organizational culture – Customary behaviours in an organization
- organization theory – Organizational theory
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