Organization

Author: Gareth Morgan
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Publish Date: 2005-03-01
Features: Organizations are machines, organisms, brains, cultures, political systems, mental prisons, instruments of change and transformation, and tools of domination. This is the main argument of the book. As a management scholar with over 20 years of theoretical and practical experience, Gareth breaks free from the constraints of traditional management literature and re-examines modern organizational behavior from an innovative perspective. The metaphorical viewpoints he proposes in this book act like a wide-angle lens and a perspective mirror, not only greatly broadening the horizons of modern managers but also allowing them to clearly see the essential structure of organizational behavior. This classic work provides concrete methods to integrate the strengths of opposing management perspectives while overcoming their weaknesses and has globally influenced the way people think about management. The new edition retains the essence of the original while being updated with important research from the past decade. The book has also been condensed and revised for easier reading and use by today's managers.