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  • Paperback: 368 pages
  • Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc; Abridged - Executive, revised edition (17 Jul 1998)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0761917527
  • ISBN-13: 978-0761917526
  • Product Dimensions: 22.4 x 17.4 x 2.5 cm
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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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4.0 out of 5 stars Comprehensive exposition of organizational theories, 2 Nov 2002
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This is a fundamental reference book on models of organizations. While others try to sell their own pet theory, Morgan presents them all, exposing them to thorough scrutiny.
Any manager or student of management frequently gets confronted with situations that demand an ability to 'read' what is going on, and to generate responding answers and actions. Effective 'reading' needs models. Most of us rely on one or two favoured theories that habitually frame our thinking. However the choice of model is itself a limiting act - think in terms of mechanistic processes and you are limited to machine-based solutions.
Faced with a flavour-of-the-month theory - quality management, knowledge management, chaos theory, whatever - you can turn to this book and understand what type of theory it is - its assumptions, its benefits, its limitations.
Working in the other direction is slightly less comfortable. If you want the latest thinking on a particular perspective, you will find it summarised here, though not always accompanied by comprehensive signposts to follow-on reading.
Altogether quite awesome in its breadth.
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7 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A truely useful and excellent book., 9 Nov 2000
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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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4.0 out of 5 stars A very different approach to understanding what drives an Organization., 30 April 2009
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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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