- Paperback: 368 pages
- Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc; Abridged - Executive, revised edition (17 July 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0761917527
- ISBN-13: 978-0761917526
- Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 15.2 x 2.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 167,280 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This pioneering work has now been abridged and revised to increase its accessibility and usefulness for today's practising 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 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 21st century.
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This pioneering work has now been abridged and revised to increase its accessibility and usefulness for today's practising 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 21st century.
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A truely useful and excellent book.,
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This review is from: Images of Organization: Executive Edition: The Executive Edition (Paperback)
This book is extensively used throughout the UKs universities. The text is accessable and easy to understand. If you are a manager this is essential reading.
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4.2 out of 5 stars (12 customer reviews) 19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
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Strengths and limitations of metaphors.,
By Turgay BUGDACIGIL - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Images of Organization: The Executive Edition (Paperback)
"While managing and organizing are challenging in the best times, the difficulties are compounding in today's environment of rapid change. If you want to be the type of leader or professional who helps your organization adapt to the multiple demands of an increasingly turbulent world, you need to become aware of the images and assumptions that are shaping your current thinking and develop the capacity to use new ones. You need to develop competencies that allow you to see, understand, and shape situations in new ways. That is the focus of Images of Organization.It is not a 'quick fix' book. It is not a book that offers a simple recipe for tackling organizational problems...The basic thesis underlying the book is a very simple one: that all organization and management theory and practice is based on images, or metaphors, that lead us to understand situations in powerful yet partial ways. When we realize this, we learn to recognize that our favored ways of managing and organizing often lead us to miss out on other ways of managing and organizing. In addition, we recognize that since every metaphor has limitations as well as strengths, we must always be aware of the inherent blind spots that inevitably undermine our effectiveness" (pp.3-4).In this context, Garet Morgan divides his book into three parts. I- In this part, he focuses on the nature of metaphor and its role in understanding organization and management. Here, he argues that using multiple metaphors to understand organization and management gives us a capacity to tap different dimentions of a situation, showing how different qualities of organization can co-exist, supporting, reinforcing, or contradicting one another: * In approaching the same situation in different ways, metaphors extend insight and suggest actions that may not have been possible before. * The insights generated by different metaphors are not just theoretical. They are incredibly practical. * Metaphors lead to new metaphors, creating a mosaic of competing and complementary insights. II- In this part, he demonstrates how metaphor can be used to develop theories of organization and management. In this sense, he shows strengths and limitations of the following metaphors:machine metaphor, organismic metaphor, brain metaphor, culture metaphor, political metaphor, psychic prison metaphor, flux and transformation metaphor, and dominant metaphor. III- In this part, by using theoretical ideas/metaphors, he presents a practical case study that illustrates how we can use the metaphors presented in this book as practical frameworks for reading and shaping organizations. Finally, he argues that Images of Organization is very different from most management books. It has a clear point of view: that metaphor is central to the way we read, understand, and shape organizational life. But at no point will you find that view being brought down to advocacy of a single perspective. There are no right or wrong theories in management in an absolute sense, for every theory illuminates and hides. Highly recommended. 9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
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An outstanding and unique commentary on organizations,
By wattsgmp@tpgi.com.au - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Images of Organization: Executive Edition: The Executive Edition (Paperback)
What makes this book special is the approach. Morgan considers organizations using different metaphors such as organisations as brains. Each metaphors expands the reader's insight and understanding, and leads to ways of surviving organizational life. This book is a must read text for those studying management or organizational behaviour. All the chapters contain quality references to other work and are backed up by extensive research.
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Absolutely fantastic.,
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This review is from: Images of Organization: Executive Edition: The Executive Edition (Paperback)
This book allows the reader to formulate his/her own opinion on each type of organization structure. Morgan brings in depth insights into the various forms of organizations through discussions of theories and examples. The book is concise and easy to understand, at the same it challenges readers by asking them to thoroughly exame each concept included in the book. Absolutely fantastic - a great leisure time book for the intelligent.
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