Images of Organization

Images of Organization

Book cover
Author	Gareth Morgan
Language	English
Subject	Management, Organizational studies
Genre	Nonfiction
Publisher	Sage Publications
Publication date	originally published in 1986
Publication place	United States
Pages	520
ISBN	978-1-4129-3979-9

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

• 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.
• Örtenblad, Anders; Putnam, Linda L; Trehan, Kiran (2016). "Beyond Morgan's eight metaphors: Adding to and developing organization theory". Human Relations. 69 (4): 875–889. doi:10.1177/0018726715623999. ISSN 0018-7267.

See also

• organizational culture – Customary behaviours in an organization
• organization theory – Sociological study of social organizationsPages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets

External links

• Images of Organization: Table of Contents