Activity 2.2
Reading
What are your current perspectives on, and about, organisations? Begin by reading the
following section of your main key text:
• Mullins (2010) Chapter 1 ‘The nature of organisational behaviour’, pp.2–10.
1. How we view the world of work will influence what discipline we prefer to use to
understand business. Use the classification in this reading to identify your own orientation
to work. Also look at the orientations mentioned in Section 3.7 in the subject
guide – these are discussed in the work by Goldthorpe et al.
2. Which of Morgan’s metaphors do you favour to describe an organisation? What disciplines
do you think have influenced the different organisational metaphors mentioned
in the reading?