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Chapter Analysis

Based on the raves that this book has received, it is safe to say that a book of more substance was expected. After finishing this chapter, the overall effect I felt was much the same as the feeling I had when I finished Gareth MorganÆs book, Images of Organization (1986).

Morgan, like Eisenberg & Goodall, also tried to find new and exciting ways to discuss organizational behavior and drew on a number of metaphors to describe and analyze the organization, all the way from comparing them to brains to new systems. In MorganÆs view, applying metaphor to an organization requires ôapplication of ideas associated with the brain metaphor thus requires both a æpower shiftÆ and a æmind shift.Æ Few will probably quarrel with the ideal of creating ælearning organizationsÆ that are able to evolve and adapt with the challenges they encounterö (Morgan, 1986, 118).

MorganÆs book is a particularly apt book for comparison to this chapter, since the authors quote him as the first expert in the chapter. ôViewing organization as a mode of domination...forces...us to appreciate the wisdom of Max WeberÆs insight that the pursuit of rationality can itself be a mode of domination....we should always be asking the question, ôRational for Whom?ö

I am inspired to apply that quote, slightly paraphrased to this chapter, and ask ôrelevant for whom?ö This is because the authors, grown men, seem slightly surprised and upset that organizations can be unfeeling:

In a world where work is often associated with oneÆs identity and where making a living is a key to social status, sudden changes that negatively affect oneÆs work status can be devastating. As companies downsize and redefine the roles of their employees, many people fear the loss of their jobs in an uncertain future. The preceding examples of work-hate narratives point to an insidious form of hegemony: a narrowly defined but pervasively enforced s

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