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Author Morgan, Gareth, 1943-

Title Creative organization theory : a resourcebook / Gareth Morgan
Published Newbury Park, Calif. : Sage Publications, 1989
1989

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Description 369 pages : illustrations
Contents Machine derived contents note: 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 Culture -- The Role of Stories -- Transformational Leadership -- The Tandem Corporation -- A Successful Corporate Culture? -- ServiceMaster -- Combining Vision and Control -- Life on the Fast Lane at Datsun -- Apple Computer and the Politics of Change -- Politics at Work -- Some Sources of Organizational Conflict -- A Perspective on Conflict Management -- Decision-Making in Conflict Situations -- Managing Intergroup Conflict -- Rational for Whom? -- Powerless Power? -- Gender and Corporate Politics -- Game-Playing and the Psychodynamics of Organizational Life -- Groupthink -- The Problems of Conformity -- Some Unconscious Aspects of Organization -- The Destructive Side of Technological Development -- Unfolding Contradictions -- The Bhopal Disaster -- ̀Hooked' on Work -- The Not-Enough World of Work -- Part Three: Cases And Exercises -- American Football -- A Case of Mechanistic Organization? -- arlie Chaplin's -- Modern Times -- Eagle Smelting -- A Visit to McDonald's -- Judging the Degree of Fit Between Organization and Environment -- The Paradoxical Twins -- Acme & Omega Electronics -- Scholar Educational Products Inc. -- The Changing Structure of Financial Services -- Organizations Often Obstruct Learning -- Product X -- Arnold -- The Paradox of Creativity -- Understanding the Culture of Your Organization -- Perfection or Bust -- The Creation and Destruction of the Order of Maria Theresa -- Sink or Swim -- Reflections on a Corporate Training Program -- The Nomizu Sake Company -- The University as a Political System -- The Fortress Insurance Company -- Rainbow Financial Services -- Global Inc -- A Roleplay -- How Politicized is Your Organization? -- Pluralist Management -- Meetings, Meetings, Meetings -- The Sunnyvale Youth Centre -- Conflict at Riverside -- The Handgrenade -- Jersey Packers -- The Department of Information Services -- Quality Co-Op -- Who Builds the Dillworth Extension? -- The Lakeside Literary Magazine -- A New Direction for the Upstage Theatre -- Tipdale Engineering -- Visibility, Autonomy, Relevance and Relationships -- Four Factors Shaping Power and Influence -- Final Offer -- Problems in the Machine Shop -- Profit and Organizations -- A Story of Exploitation?
Analysis Evolution of Organization Theory--computers and the mechanization of intellectual work--organizational growth and development--Japanese Management--information and misinformation--performance controls--innovating organizations:The Case of 3M--ServiceMaster--Apple Computer--politics of change--managing intergroup conflict--game-playing--psychodynamics--organizational life--conformity--technological development--Bhopal Disaster--Acme Omega Electronics--Financial Services--Corporate Training Program--Rainbow Financial Services
Bibliography Includes bibliographies
Subject Management.
Organization.
Organizational behavior.
LC no. 88028288
ISBN 0803934440