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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis PART ONE: MINDSTRETCHERS Flexibility and Intelligence What is This? The Need for a Tool Chest Framing and Reframing Seeing the Same Situation in Different Ways What is This? Using Your `Right Brain¿ We Learn How to See What is a Paintbrush? What is Truth? Different Assumptions and Organizing Principles Generate Different Designs Developing Multiple Interpretations Understanding Different Viewpoints Escaping From Dominant Ideas Interpreting Patterns, Boundaries and Constraints What is an Organization? Viewing Your Organization as if You Are a Visitor from a Foreign Land Where¿s The Customer Some Thought Patterns Today¿s Solutions Shape Tomorrow¿s Problems Mindstretchers -- Ideas and Solutions PART TWO: READINGS, STORIES AND OTHER RESOURCES The Evolution of Organization Theory Max Weber¿s Concept of Bureaucracy Taylor, Schmidt and Scientific Management How to Kill Creativity Working Under Mechanized Systems of Production Computers and the Mechanization of Intellectual Work From Bureaucracies to Networks The Emergence of New Organizational Forms Organization Design An Information Processing Perspective Organizational Technologies Organizational Environments The Emergence of Turbulent Environments The Contingency Approach Analyzing Relations Between Organization and Environment Differentiation and Integration One of the Paradoxes of Management Collective Strategy The Management of Interorganizational Relations Tit for Tat A Strategy for Cooperation and Survival Organization and Environment Adaptation or Selection Do Organizations `Enact¿ Their Environments? Organizational Growth and Development Just in Time Systems of Management Japanese Management The Art of Self-Regulation The Challenger Disaster A Case of Discouraged Feedback? Information and Misinformation Some Unintended Consequences of Performance Controls Collaboration and Control Peopleless Factories Peopleless Offices Team-Based Manufacturing Digital Tries the Bossless System Growing Large While Staying Small Organizational Learning Innovating Organizations The Case of 3M Culture A Complex and Subtle Language Corporate Culture and Core Values Corporate ...
