Abstract:
In Sociology of Work and Sociology of Organizations, there are several concepts related closely to the metaphors of social organizations. We can call them the nature of organizations as well. Since metaphors are able to develop theories of organizations and management, we would like to describe one of them as precisely as we can do it. The famous sociologist Morgan Gareth in his book named "Images of Organization" proposed several interesting metaphors of organization [Morgan G. Images of Organization. Sage publications, Thousand Oaks, London, New Delhi, 2006, p 6-7]. All metaphors raised interests in Sociology of Work and Sociology of Organizations as independent subjects. Looking through them carefully, we prefer to focus attention on human factor in organizations in the concept of "Organizations as Machines" in this scientific article.
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