ANALOGICAL REASONING is the WAY to GO BEYOND ORTHODOXY in FORMULATING ORGANISATIONAL PROBLEMS: THE USE of an IMPROVED VERSION of MORGAN’s METAPHORS REVISITED
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The paper aims to promote skills of managers to gain greater insight into organisations and to frame their problems through the use of several organisational metaphors, which build on the concepts underpinning organisation theory. The paper briefly reviews Morgan’s metaphors and their associated sociological paradigms that are commonly recognised in social theory, and then improves and rephrases questionnaires on the basis of intrinsic and recent theoretical developments of each metaphor. This paper is concerned with encouraging managers to become creative in viewing problem situations through different metaphors and paradigms. If managers want to act creatively and in an all-embracing manner to address management problems and to improve their organisations, services, and operations, they have to think innovatively and comprehensively. Predictable, conventional and restricted ways to view organisational concerns should be abandoned
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Ayrıntılar
Birincil Dil
İngilizce
Konular
İşletme
Bölüm
Araştırma Makalesi
Yazarlar
N. Gökhan Torlak
Bu kişi benim
Yayımlanma Tarihi
27 Ocak 2011
Gönderilme Tarihi
27 Ocak 2011
Kabul Tarihi
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Yayımlandığı Sayı
Yıl 2007 Sayı: 53