Images of Organization

{{Short description|Book by Gareth Morgan}}

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| author = Gareth Morgan

| country = United States

| language = English

| subject = Management, Organizational studies

| genre = Nonfiction

| publisher = Sage Publications

| release_date = originally published in 1986

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| pages = 520

| isbn = 978-1-4129-3979-9

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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.

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

  • [http://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/complicity/article/view/8827/7147 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.
  • {{cite journal | last=Örtenblad | first=Anders | last2=Putnam | first2=Linda L | last3=Trehan | first3=Kiran | title=Beyond Morgan’s eight metaphors: Adding to and developing organization theory | journal=Human Relations | volume=69 | issue=4 | date=2016 | issn=0018-7267 | doi=10.1177/0018726715623999 | pages=875–889| doi-access=free }}

See also

  • {{annotated link|organizational culture}}
  • {{annotated link|organization theory}}