Images of Organization has already established itself as a classic that has influenced management thinking throughout
the world. This current edition takes Gareth Morgan�s achievement one step further, providing a rich and comprehensive
resource for exploring the complexity of modern organizations.
In this monumental work, leading-edge theory is translated into leading-edge practice. The second edition of Images
of Organization carefully preserves the qualities and strengths of the original while delivering new insights into
today�s managerial challenges. Gareth Morgan shows managers how to view their organization by using his renowned
creative images and metaphors.
Images of Organization, Second Edition challenges and reshapes how we think about organization and management in
the most fundamental way. In a sequence of path-breaking chapters he demonstrates how we can:
* Mobilize the insights of different metaphors to manage and design organizations in new ways
* Develop novel understandings of the relationships between organization and environment
* Create learning organizations with the intelligence of a living brain
* Explore the intricacies of corporate culture and the politics of organizational life
* Understand the unconscious dimensions of organization
* Translate the new science of chaos and complexity into practical management strategies
* Confront and deal with the negative impacts that organizations often have on society and the natural world
No other management book covers so much ground while developing the implications for management with such force.
Gareth Morgan is a master of the links between theory and practice. He has a gift for stripping complex ideas to
fundamentals and for fusing a kaleidoscope of insights into practical schemes for reading and shaping organizational
life.
Table of Contents
I. An Overview
1. Introduction
II. Some Images of Organization
2. Mechanization Takes Command: Organizations as Machines
3. Nature Intervenes: Organizations as Organisms
4. Learning and Self-Organization: Organizations as Brains
5. Creating Social Reality: Organizations as Cultures
6. Interests, Conflicts, and Power: Organizations as Political Systems
7. Exploring Plato's Cave: Organizations as Psychic Prisons
8. Unfolding Logics of Change: Organization as Flux and Transformation
9. The Ugly Face: Organizations as Instruments of Domination
III. Implications for Practice
10. The Challenge of Metaphor
11. Reading and Shaping Organizational Life
12. Postscript
