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Gareth Morgan’s monumental book, Images of Organization, revolutionized the field of organization theory. In honor of Morgan’s classic text, this edited volume, Exploring Morgan’s Metaphors: Theory, Research, and Practice in Organizational Studies, illustrates how Morgan’s eight metaphors inform research, practice, and organizational intervention in a variety of contexts. Including contributions from well-known experts in their fields, specifically, Joep Cornelisen, Cliff Oswick, David Grant, and Gareth Morgan, this new text offers fresh perspectives and sets forth new metaphors for conceptualizing organizations in today’s workforce. Readers will gain insights and guidelines into the different ways that Morgan’s metaphors and metaphorical thinking can be used to better understand organizational life, as well as how to study and develop organizations.
Exploring Metaphors of Leadership
Exploring Metaphors of Leadership
Key Learning Points
- Understand that all colorful expressions are not metaphoric.
- Know how metaphors of organization and leadership are linked to each other.
- Recognize that quantitative methods are helpful when we want to know how people relate individual metaphors to each other without intentional discretion and how these connections constitute underlying leadership culture.
- Understand that the reactions of organizational members to positive as well as negative metaphors of leadership show the nature and degree of the legitimacy of organizational leadership.
- Understand that metaphorical behavior of organizational members may contribute to both the self-understanding of individual leaders and attempts to develop the effectiveness of their leadership communication.
- Recognize that the underlying structure of organic, human relations type of leadership metaphors implies the existence ...
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