Gareth Morgan believes that examining organizations and management should be interesting, creative, practical, challenging and directly relevant to the needs of both the organization and the researcher. In an ingenious selection of organizational stories, Morgan presents unique insights drawn from actual corporate (as well as non-profit, public and institutional) experience. These examples illustrate both organizational successes and failures - because we can learn from both. They are interwoven with excerpts from many of the "classics" in organizational literature. His aptly-named "Mindstretchers" entice readers to expand their personal repertoires of approaches to the understanding of, and solutions to, organizational problems and challenges, followed by cases and exercises that challenge us to view organizations in new ways.
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Gareth Morgan is well known for his creative contributions to management. He is the author of seven books, including Images of Organization, Creative Organization Theory, Imaginization and Riding the Waves of Change. He acts as consultant and seminar leader to numerous organizations throughout Europe and North America, and is Distinguished Research Professor at York University in Toronto. He has sat on the editorial boards of the Academy of Management, and Organization Studies; and is a Life Fellow of the International Academy of Management. Born in Wales, he now lives in Toronto with his wife, Karen and their children Evan and Heather.
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I purchased this book for use as a text in a doctoral class in organization and management. It offers a wide mix of ideas that can be used in your own workplace and compliments Morgan's other works quite well.
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Many ideas about organization are like concrete. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
principal departmental, bereavement counselor, bureaucratic school, production foreman, intervening party, executive champion, strategic managers, causal texture Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New York, Mary Cunningham, Bill Agee, General Motors, Design Inc, John Deere, Maria Theresa, Morton Thiokol, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Union Carbide, John Tyler, Steve Jobs, Administrative Science Quarterly, Henry Ford, Steve's Diary, Tipdale Engineering, John Sculley, Marg Johnson, Max Weber, Middle East, Nomizu Sake Company, North America, Sauk Indians New!
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Many ideas about organization are like concrete. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
principal departmental, bereavement counselor, bureaucratic school, production foreman, intervening party, executive champion, strategic managers, causal texture Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New York, Mary Cunningham, Bill Agee, General Motors, Design Inc, John Deere, Maria Theresa, Morton Thiokol, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Union Carbide, John Tyler, Steve Jobs, Administrative Science Quarterly, Henry Ford, Steve's Diary, Tipdale Engineering, John Sculley, Marg Johnson, Max Weber, Middle East, Nomizu Sake Company, North America, Sauk Indians New!
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- In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America's Best-Run Companies (Collins Business Essentials) by Thomas J. Peters on page 25, page 143, and page 144
- Images of Organization by Gareth Morgan in Front Matter, page 78, and Back Matter
- The Management of Innovation by Tom Burns on page 71, and page 73
- Organizational Symbolism / Monographs in Organizational Behavior & Industrial Relations / Vol 1 by Louis R. Pondy on page 96, and page 158
- Corporate Cultures: The Rites and Rituals of Corporate Life by Terry Deal on page 158, and page 166
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- Thinking about Management: Implications of Organizational Debates for Practice by Ian Palmer in Back Matter
- Imaginization (Trade) by Gareth Morgan in Back Matter
- Managing Creativity: The Dynamics of Work and Organization by DAVIS in Back Matter
- Challenging Reality: In Search of the Future Organization by Christopher Barnatt in Back Matter
- Managing Creativity: The Dynamics of Work and Organization by Howard Davis in Back Matter
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