Gareth Morgan

Gareth Morgan (born December 22, 1943 , Porthcawl , Wales ) is a British-Canadian organizational theorist , management consultant and Distinguished Research Professor at the Schulich School of Business at York University in Toronto . He became known as the spiritual father of the organizing metaphor concept and for his 1979 Gibson Burrell published work Sociological Paradigms and Organizational Analysis in 1986 published and Images of Organization (dt. Images of Organization).

Life

Morgen received his early school education at Grammar School in Bridgend , Wales, and then attended the London School of Economics and Political Science , where he graduated with a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) degree in Economics . He then worked as an accountant in the UK administration and became a registered member of a professional body in 1968, comparable to an accountant .

He moved to the University of Texas at Austin , where he graduated with a Masters in Public Administration in 1970 . As part of his studies, he completed a few learning units in organizational theory ( " organizational studies " ), whereby he questioned some of the assumptions and assumptions underlying the accounting profession. He pursued his thoughts as a lecturer at the University of Lancaster and gained 1980 his doctorate (Ph.D.) in Organization Studies , bringing his career as an author , speaker and business consultant began.

In the 1980s he became a faculty member of the School of Business at Pennsylvania State University . From there he moved to York University in Toronto. In 1988 he was appointed a lifelong fellow of the International Academy of Management and Economics in recognition of his exceptional contributions to the science and art of management, and in 1992 he was appointed Distiguished Research Professor at York University. In the 1990s, his book Images of Organization became a worldwide bestseller and was translated into sixteen languages ​​(Eng. Bilder der Organization , Klett, 1999).

In the late 1990s, Morgan turned to reinventing the doctrine of organization and management through the development of Internet technology. That led to the formation of NewMindsets Inc. in 2000, and its activities focused on internet entrepreneurship and research for its product.

He worked in the editorial offices of various specialist journals, including renowned papers such as Action Learning , Administration & Society , Organization , the Journal of Management and Organization Studies .

In 2014 he was appointed Associate Fellow of the Saïd Business School at Oxford University. Together with Gibson Burrell he was awarded the Academy of Management Trailblazer Award for his contributions to organizational and management theory and was honored with an honorary doctorate (dr.phil.hc) by the Syddansk Universitet .

job

Morgan tried to integrate theory and practice throughout his career. He wrote for both academic and practical target groups and firmly advocated the concept of action learning in research. The questioning of assumptions can be seen as a common thread in his work - to offer help with which new thinking is developed in the social sciences, organizational and management theory and practice and, implicitly, in daily life.

Morgan's best-known books are Sociological Paradigms and Organizational Analysis, written with Gibson Burrell, and Beyond Method: Strategies for Social Research .

Sociological Paradigms and Organizational Analysis

The work by Gibson Burrell and Gareth Morgan, first published in 1979, is considered a classic of organizational theory. It builds on Thomas S. Kuhn's concept of the paradigm , examines the hidden assumptions of social and organizational theories and presents a map-like representation of dozens of different schools of thought. The key message is that the various theories reflect very different implicit assumptions about the nature of social reality. This map reflects the paradigms of the “functionalists”, the “interpreters”, “radical humanists” and “radical structuralists” and how their assumptions and assumptions influence our perception and the way in which we view organizations. Morgan revisited the subject in the influential article The Case for Qualitative Research (1980), co- authored with Linda Smircich .

Since the publication of this work, this approach has been used by various scientists in a wide range of topics in order to challenge the fundamental theories of their respective fields and thus influence their work.

Images of Organization

In Images of Organization , Morgan challenges the reader's understanding to think of organizations as one of eight possible categories. These categories are tools Morgan uses to challenge the perception of the organization. There are the pictures of the organization as:

• a machine
• an organism
• a brain
• a culture
• a political system
• a mental prison
• Flow and change
• Instrument of power.

Today, these images are often understood as metaphors . And although the images clearly contradict each other in terms of content, they can still be applied to the same organization and used to solve problems. They are also not an exhaustive description of the organization, but a generalized approach to the characteristic features of the organizations. Morgan delves into the subject in his book New Mindsets for Seeing, Thinking and Managing .

bibliography

items

• Gareth Morgan, Linda Smircich: The Case for Qualitative Research. In: The Academy of Management Review. Vol. 5, No. 4, Oct. 1980, pp. 491-500.

Books

• Gibson Burrell, Gareth Morgan: Sociological Paradigms and Organizational Analysis. NH. Heinemann, London / Exeter 1979.
• Louis Pondy, Peter Frost, Gareth Morgan, Tom Dandridge (Eds.): Organizational Symbolism. JAI Press, Greenwich, CT 1983.
• Gareth Morgan (Ed.): Beyond Method: Strategies for Social Research. Sage Publications, Newbury Park, CA 1983.
• Gareth Morgan: Images of Organization, Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications. 1986.
• Gareth Morgan: Riding the Waves of Change. Jossey Bass, San Francisco, CA 1988.
• Gareth Morgan: Creative Organization Theory: A Resourcebook. Sage Publications, Newbury Park, CA 1989.
• Gareth Morgan: Teaching Organization Theory: An Instructor's Manual. Sage Publications, Newbury Park, CA 1989.
• Gareth Morgan, Karen Morgan: Beyond the Glitterspeak: Creating Genuine Collaboration In Our Schools. Ontario Teachers Federation, 1991.
• Gareth Morgan: Imaginization: New Mindsets for Seeing, Organizing and Managing. Sage Publications, Newbury Park / San Francisco, CA 1993.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Gareth Morgan - Author. Professor. Social Entrepreneur on Gareth Morgan's homepage, www.imaginiz.com; accessed on December 21, 2017.
2. ^ Morgen Witzel: Fifty key figures in management. 2003, pp. 232-239.
3. ↑ Malcolm Warner: International encyclopedia of business and management. Volume 5, 2002, p. 4572.
4. ↑ http://vpap.info.yorku.ca/awards-and-recognition/distinguished-research-professors/
5. ↑ Gareth Morgan - Founder and Chairman, NewMindsets Inc ( Memento of the original from January 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Accessed June 22, 2011.  
6. ^ ^{A b c d} Sociological Paradigms and Organizational Analysis: Elements of the Sociology of Corporate Life ; at www.GoodReads.com; Retrieved December 20, 2017.
7. ↑ Stewart Clegg : Book Reviews: Gibson Burrell and Gareth Morgan: Sociological Paradigms and Organizational Analysis. In: Organization Studies . Volume 3, issue 4, October 1, 1982, pp. 380-381. doi: 10.1177 / 017084068200300409
8. ^ Ann L. Cunliffe: Crafting Qualitative Research: Morgan and Smircich - 30 Years On. In: Organizational Research Methods. 14 (4), 2011, pp. 647-673. doi: 10.1177 / 1094428110373658 .
9. ↑ Images of Organization book review at www.Goodreads.com, accessed December 20, 2017.
10. ↑ Mohammed Fahad Alsobaie: Book Review: Images of organization by Gareth Morgan. In: Journal of Education and Practice. Vol. 7, No. 17, 2016. ISSN  2222-1735
11. ^ Matthew J. Lambert: A review of Images of Organization, by Gareth Morgan, 2006. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, xv + 504 pp. ISBN 1-4129-3979-8 . In: Complicity - An International Journal of Complexity and Education. Vol. 6, No. 2, 2009.
12. ↑ ^{a b} Book review by Images of Organization ( Memento of the original from April 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on www.easternity.com on May 27, 2013. 

Web links

Wikiquote: Gareth Morgan  - Quotes

• imaginiz.com , website of Gareth Morgan