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Images of Organization [Paperback]

Gareth Morgan (Author)
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Publication Date: 27 Jun 2006 | ISBN-10: 1412939798 | ISBN-13: 978-1412939799 | Edition: Updated Edition
In the twenty years since its first publication, Images of Organization has become a classic in the canon of management literature. The book is based on a very simple premise: that all theories of organization and management are based on implicit images or metaphors that lead us to see, understand, and manage organizations in distinctive yet partial ways. Gareth Morgan provides a rich and comprehensive resource for exploring the complexity of modern organizations internationally: he translates leading-edge theory into leading-edge practice.

New to the Updated Edition: the author has revised all references and updated tables; his new preface situates this classic theory in today’s business environment; and instructor’s resources to aid classroom teaching are now available on CD-ROM.

Images of Organization challenges and reshapes how we think about organization and management in the most fundamental way. The new Updated Edition makes this monumental work available to a new generation of students and business leaders worldwide.

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  • Paperback: 520 pages
  • Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc; Updated Edition edition (27 Jun 2006)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1412939798
  • ISBN-13: 978-1412939799
  • Product Dimensions: 15.2 x 3.8 x 22.9 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
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Professor Morgan,

I only recently received a copy of Images of Organization (updated edition) as a desk copy to review for the I/O Psych class that I teach. I just started reading your book I am absolutely blown away by it. I cannot believe that I had missed this marvelous work. My ignorance knows few, if any, limits!

You pull together such a span of ideas and integrate them beautifully with your own angle, stimulating one's thinking. This is the kind of mind opening perspective to which I like to expose my classes. Thank you for condensing it so powerfully. By the way, the bibliographic notes are as exciting a read as is the rest of the book. I look forward to devouring the rest of the book.

James Michael Burke, Ph.D.
Virginia Commonwealth University
L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs
Center for Public Policy (Letter from James Michael Burke, Ph.D. 2006-10-03)

"This is the new updated edition of a classic published over 20 years ago. The book is based on the simple premise that all theories of organization and management are based on implicit images of metaphors that stretch our imagination in a way that can create powerful insights, but at the risk of distortion. The author provides a rich and comprhensive resource for exploring the complexity of modern organizations internationally, translating theory into practice." (APADE 2006-12-05)

“A universe of thanks to you for spearheading the metaphoric, creative thinking about organizations. Your method has essentially electrified my teaching.”

--Mohammad A. Auwal, CSU, Los Angeles

(Mohammad A. Auwal 2007-01-25)

"Let me say that I've loved teaching this course for over 10 years now, in part, because your book (and now the excellent CD) are so well thought out. You deserve a bow. Bravo." (Jim Bonilla 2007-02-26)

"This book is based on the simple premise that all theories of organization and management are based on implicit images of metaphors that stretch our imagination in a way that can create powerful insights, but at the risk of distortion. The author provides a rich and comprehensive resource for exploring the complexity of modern organizations internationally, translating theory into practice." (Abstract of Public Administration Development and Environment 2007-04-16)

About the Author

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.
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4.0 out of 5 stars A very different approach to understanding what drives an Organization. 30 April 2009
By Stan Felstead - Interchange Resources
Format:Paperback
The strong point of this book is that it strengthens your personal radar -the ability to 'read' organizations. Probing what is really going on and the underlying influences. A classic book in its field.

The basis of this book is that you cannot understand complex organizations, in any meaningful way through a single perspective. People in organizations operate on many perspectives. Each view of the world creates its own understanding of the organizational problems, solutions and daily pattern of interaction. The time spent on this book will enable you to far better understand what is going on around you than your peers.

A leading Canadian University running a progamme on Organization design has used this material and also drawn on the following:

* Designing Effective Organizations. This is a UK book from Ashridge. Which contains nine tests of organizational design. A useful and more pragmatic resource, in its style than this book. (See my other reviews)

This book can be complex and hard going in places. This is balanced by the many different insights provided. Many readers might find chapters 7 and 9 a step to far, and skip them.

The core message perhaps is - limit your thinking and you will limit your range of options. Each way of seeing/viewing organizations will produce distinctive insights, with their own pattern of strengths and limatations. The challenge is to integrate the insights and then develop an action strategy that can suit your own purpose.

For an alternative view on organizational politics/dynamics see:

* Who really matters: The core group theory of power, privilege, and success. (See my other reviews)

This was suggested to me by a leading practitioner in the Organization Design/Change Management field from a very large UK organization at a meeting of the Organization Design forum. The key point is that you may have done all the strategy/planning stuff but overlooked the core power base, in which case you could screw up, and you will wonder what went wrong. I have seen this happen several times.

Stan Felstead - Interchange Resources - UK.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Accessable, wide-ranging & comprehensive 19 Mar 2009
By Steve Hearsum
Format:Paperback
This was a set text for a Masters degree I did a couple of years ago. It is one of the books that impressed me the most, as it does an excellent job of identifying and unpicking the different lenses that have been applied to organisations over the years. In particular, the chapters on organisations as psychic prisons and as flux & change I found particularly powerful.

Morgan does an excellent job of analysing the most common metaphors for organisation, and offers the reader both the pros and cons of each, in a way that I found particularly accessible and unlike most books I have read in this area.

Highly recommended, and even if you can only pick up one of the earlier additions, worth having as they do not differ too much.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Morgan Masterpiece! 24 Jan 2013
By Samuel Rolfe
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The different perspectives on an organisation are an interesting outlook and this is delivered with a lot of content including other theorists for further reference. Great read if you have some spare time and an interest in business.
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