So perhaps notions such as ‘organizational goal’ create a modern myth that obscures a threatening possibility, that organizations are not consensual or at least they should not be presumed to be always consensual. However, conceiving an organization in such terms might also serve to reinforce power structures and legitimizes the status quo by creating a deceptive aura of objectivity and neutrality around what is a very partisan conception of organization. This is because we may be inadvertently giving conceptual priority to the concerns and activities of particular organization members at the cost of those of other groups, both ‘inside’ and ‘outside’ the organization,
by according their particular preferences the status of ‘organizational’ goals – a
status that accords an impression of neutrality.