Organizational Management Week 4 Assignment Public University Organizations are interpreted by a theory which explains how things happen There are several perspectives that can explain the complexity of organizations People that are open minded can see an organization through many perspectives which gives them multiple ways to deal with problems and guide the organization As the world changes and becomes more diverse it is important to get an understanding on the complexity of the world and ways to deal with it There have been approaches developed and adopted to assess and investigate corporate culture The use of metaphors is a common approach to organizational culture and it provides the importance on an individual area of an idea Metaphors are a process people use to explain and understand how an incident takes place as it relates to a different incident Gareth Morgan analyzed the following eight metaphors of an organization Morgan 1986 1 Organization as a Machine the organization is based on quality efficiency and the timeliness of processes which are made up of intertwining parts Those intertwining parts are products real machines people or groups that have jobs to do to in order to make an organization function