Comparison between chapters of Gareth Morgan and Daft views on organisation theory

1 Introduction

In this paper the content of two different chapters of respectively Daft and Gareth Morgan are summarized and then analysed. It firstly starts with a summary of Daft’s chapter “Managing Organizational Culture and Ethics”. Though the main focus is on Daft, there also are treated some aspects that Morgan is mentioning concerning organizational culture. Then Morgan’s metaphor, where the organization is compared to a brain, is summarized. Sometimes examples or information from other sources than these two chapters are used in order to clarify the content of these chapters.
In the analysis the two chapters will be compared. Hereby the brain metaphor will be used as a means to understand various aspects of an organizational culture and the difficulties surrounding changing organizations. Finally the findings are discussed in the conclusions.

2 Summary:“Managing Organizational Culture and Ethics”

2.1 What is organizational culture?
It is very...