February Morgan Eight Metaphors

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1. Bendix explains that managerial ideology focuses on workers been obedient in the workplace to avoid conflict and their obedience would grant business’s unity in order to achieve the common beliefs and goals of the manager. In the 18-19th century industrial development had a massive impact across the world, giving the opportunity to implement the doctrine in order to eliminate obstacles of an organisation through developing bureaucracy to guide the workers into achieving perfection and their objectives. The manger would work out his relationship towards his employees through their attitude, skills and their ambitions to ultimately connect these elements to making the organisation effective and efficient.
Gareth Morgan’s established eight metaphors of organisation, organism, culture, brain, machines, political system, physic prison and instrument of domination, flux and transformation all portraying the power plays amongst people in organisations (The Eight Metaphors of …show more content…

The entire structure of rational- bureaucracy focused on having strong administrative practise, hierarchy of command and employees that possess different attributes and different skills that they specialise in order to achieve the company’s objectives. The bureaucratic structure’s weakness is the obsession of conformity and compliance of the workers. It can introduce unnecessary conformity to rules and procedures without critically thinking of the effectiveness on achieving the goals or efficiency in organization. Bureaucratic structure can change an individual’s personality from creative and critical thinker to a conformer in order to achieve the objectives the company must have thinkers’ not just workers to know the current situation and how deal with it, if it is filled with conformers then they will struggle to understand the businesses needs or how to achieve the company’s goals (Max Weber And The Idea Of Bureaucracy