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Images of Organization Gareth Morgan
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc

Some time ago I participated an Organization Theory course at University of Jyväskylä. I have copied part of the Introduction below: ------ Organizations are many things at once! Influence differs from authority in having a number of sources in the organization, in being embedded in the actual relationship between groups rather than located in an abstract legal source, and is not fixed but is variable and operates through bargaining, manipulation, exchange and so forth. BOSTON, MASS.—When difficult biological questions are tackled by creative experts in physics, what can result? Gareth Morgan devotes chapter 4 of his insightful study Images of Organization to the conceptualization of organizations as brains. They are complex and multifaceted. This book by Gareth Morgan is my latest reading project. Posted on April 1, 2013 by Derek. The mirror image of the control of rewards may be coercive power. However, the combination of the above assumptions introduces the six different images of the managing organizational change namely: directing, navigating, caretaking, coaching, interpreting and nurturing. One of the ideas presented at the course was Gareth Morgan's Images of Organizations.