ORGANIZATIONS AS ORGANISMS

Organizations as Organisms



Organizations as Organisms

Introduction

Metaphor is a major force through which humans create meaning through the use of an element of experience to understand others. Metaphor becomes a tool to create an understanding of what we now recognize as an organization and management. Gareth Morgan suggests a way of thinking and a way of looking at organizations such as metaphors several organizations as a machine (mechanistic approach), the organizations and agencies (ecological approach), and organizations as cultures, etc (Hewlett 2006)

In this article I will discuss an issue raised by Gareth Morgan, 1986, one of the greatest ...