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.

This book has been an eye opener, good book to have and use.

• PART ONE: MINDSTRETCHERSFlexibility and IntelligenceWhat is This?The Need for a Tool ChestFraming and ReframingSeeing the Same Situation in Different WaysWhat is This?Using Your `Right Brain′We Learn How to SeeWhat is a Paintbrush?What is Truth?Different Assumptions and Organizing Principles Generate Different DesignsDeveloping Multiple InterpretationsUnderstanding Different ViewpointsEscaping From Dominant IdeasInterpreting Patterns, Boundaries and ConstraintsWhat is an Organization?Viewing Your Organization as if You Are a Visitor from a Foreign LandWhere′s The CustomerSome Thought PatternsToday′s Solutions Shape Tomorrow′s ProblemsMindstretchers -- Ideas and SolutionsPART TWO: READINGS, STORIES AND OTHER RESOURCESThe Evolution of Organization TheoryMax Weber′s Concept of BureaucracyTaylor, Schmidt and Scientific ManagementHow to Kill CreativityWorking Under Mechanized Systems of ProductionComputers and the Mechanization of Intellectual WorkFrom Bureaucracies to NetworksThe Emergence of New Organizational FormsOrganization DesignAn Information Processing PerspectiveOrganizational TechnologiesOrganizational EnvironmentsThe Emergence of Turbulent EnvironmentsThe Contingency ApproachAnalyzing Relations Between Organization and EnvironmentDifferentiation and IntegrationOne of the Paradoxes of ManagementCollective StrategyThe Management of Interorganizational RelationsTit for TatA Strategy for Cooperation and SurvivalOrganization and EnvironmentAdaptation or SelectionDo Organizations `Enact′ Their Environments?Organizational Growth and DevelopmentJust in Time Systems of ManagementJapanese ManagementThe Art of Self-RegulationThe Challenger DisasterA Case of Discouraged Feedback?Information and MisinformationSome Unintended Consequences of Performance ControlsCollaboration and ControlPeopleless FactoriesPeopleless OfficesTeam-Based ManufacturingDigital Tries the Bossless SystemGrowing Large While Staying SmallOrganizational LearningInnovating OrganizationsThe Case of 3MCultureA Complex and Subtle LanguageCorporate Culture and Core ValuesCorporate CultureThe Role of StoriesTransformational LeadershipThe Tandem CorporationA Successful Corporate Culture?ServiceMasterCombining Vision and ControlLife on the Fast Lane at DatsunApple Computer and the Politics of ChangePolitics at WorkSome Sources of Organizational ConflictA Perspective on Conflict ManagementDecision-Making in Conflict SituationsManaging Intergroup ConflictRational for Whom?Powerless Power?Gender and Corporate PoliticsGame-Playing and the Psychodynamics of Organizational LifeGroupthinkThe Problems of ConformitySome Unconscious Aspects of OrganizationThe Destructive Side of Technological DevelopmentUnfolding ContradictionsThe Bhopal Disaster`Hooked′ on WorkThe Not-Enough World of WorkPART THREE: CASES AND EXERCISESAmerican FootballA Case of Mechanistic Organization?arlie Chaplin′sModern TimesEagle SmeltingA Visit to McDonald′sJudging the Degree of Fit Between Organization and EnvironmentThe Paradoxical TwinsAcme & Omega ElectronicsScholar Educational Products Inc.The Changing Structure of Financial ServicesOrganizations Often Obstruct LearningProduct XArnoldThe Paradox of CreativityUnderstanding the Culture of Your OrganizationPerfection or BustThe Creation and Destruction of the Order of Maria TheresaSink or SwimReflections on a Corporate Training ProgramThe Nomizu Sake CompanyThe University as a Political SystemThe Fortress Insurance CompanyRainbow Financial ServicesGlobal IncA RoleplayHow Politicized is Your Organization?Pluralist ManagementMeetings, Meetings, MeetingsThe Sunnyvale Youth CentreConflict at RiversideThe HandgrenadeJersey PackersThe Department of Information ServicesQuality Co-OpWho Builds the Dillworth Extension?The Lakeside Literary MagazineA New Direction for the Upstage TheatreTipdale EngineeringVisibility, Autonomy, Relevance and RelationshipsFour Factors Shaping Power and InfluenceFinal OfferProblems in the Machine ShopProfit and OrganizationsA Story of Exploitation?

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.

This book has been an eye opener, good book to have and use.

• PART ONE: MINDSTRETCHERSFlexibility and IntelligenceWhat is This?The Need for a Tool ChestFraming and ReframingSeeing the Same Situation in Different WaysWhat is This?Using Your `Right Brain′We Learn How to SeeWhat is a Paintbrush?What is Truth?Different Assumptions and Organizing Principles Generate Different DesignsDeveloping Multiple InterpretationsUnderstanding Different ViewpointsEscaping From Dominant IdeasInterpreting Patterns, Boundaries and ConstraintsWhat is an Organization?Viewing Your Organization as if You Are a Visitor from a Foreign LandWhere′s The CustomerSome Thought PatternsToday′s Solutions Shape Tomorrow′s ProblemsMindstretchers -- Ideas and SolutionsPART TWO: READINGS, STORIES AND OTHER RESOURCESThe Evolution of Organization TheoryMax Weber′s Concept of BureaucracyTaylor, Schmidt and Scientific ManagementHow to Kill CreativityWorking Under Mechanized Systems of ProductionComputers and the Mechanization of Intellectual WorkFrom Bureaucracies to NetworksThe Emergence of New Organizational FormsOrganization DesignAn Information Processing PerspectiveOrganizational TechnologiesOrganizational EnvironmentsThe Emergence of Turbulent EnvironmentsThe Contingency ApproachAnalyzing Relations Between Organization and EnvironmentDifferentiation and IntegrationOne of the Paradoxes of ManagementCollective StrategyThe Management of Interorganizational RelationsTit for TatA Strategy for Cooperation and SurvivalOrganization and EnvironmentAdaptation or SelectionDo Organizations `Enact′ Their Environments?Organizational Growth and DevelopmentJust in Time Systems of ManagementJapanese ManagementThe Art of Self-RegulationThe Challenger DisasterA Case of Discouraged Feedback?Information and MisinformationSome Unintended Consequences of Performance ControlsCollaboration and ControlPeopleless FactoriesPeopleless OfficesTeam-Based ManufacturingDigital Tries the Bossless SystemGrowing Large While Staying SmallOrganizational LearningInnovating OrganizationsThe Case of 3MCultureA Complex and Subtle LanguageCorporate Culture and Core ValuesCorporate CultureThe Role of StoriesTransformational LeadershipThe Tandem CorporationA Successful Corporate Culture?ServiceMasterCombining Vision and ControlLife on the Fast Lane at DatsunApple Computer and the Politics of ChangePolitics at WorkSome Sources of Organizational ConflictA Perspective on Conflict ManagementDecision-Making in Conflict SituationsManaging Intergroup ConflictRational for Whom?Powerless Power?Gender and Corporate PoliticsGame-Playing and the Psychodynamics of Organizational LifeGroupthinkThe Problems of ConformitySome Unconscious Aspects of OrganizationThe Destructive Side of Technological DevelopmentUnfolding ContradictionsThe Bhopal Disaster`Hooked′ on WorkThe Not-Enough World of WorkPART THREE: CASES AND EXERCISESAmerican FootballA Case of Mechanistic Organization?arlie Chaplin′sModern TimesEagle SmeltingA Visit to McDonald′sJudging the Degree of Fit Between Organization and EnvironmentThe Paradoxical TwinsAcme & Omega ElectronicsScholar Educational Products Inc.The Changing Structure of Financial ServicesOrganizations Often Obstruct LearningProduct XArnoldThe Paradox of CreativityUnderstanding the Culture of Your OrganizationPerfection or BustThe Creation and Destruction of the Order of Maria TheresaSink or SwimReflections on a Corporate Training ProgramThe Nomizu Sake CompanyThe University as a Political SystemThe Fortress Insurance CompanyRainbow Financial ServicesGlobal IncA RoleplayHow Politicized is Your Organization?Pluralist ManagementMeetings, Meetings, MeetingsThe Sunnyvale Youth CentreConflict at RiversideThe HandgrenadeJersey PackersThe Department of Information ServicesQuality Co-OpWho Builds the Dillworth Extension?The Lakeside Literary MagazineA New Direction for the Upstage TheatreTipdale EngineeringVisibility, Autonomy, Relevance and RelationshipsFour Factors Shaping Power and InfluenceFinal OfferProblems in the Machine ShopProfit and OrganizationsA Story of Exploitation?