Revisiting Organisational Personality: Organisations as Functional and Metaphysical Entities

Mary Louise Brown1
1Robert Gordon University

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Previously called Multiple Personality Disorder.

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Morgans book sets out to explore the most popular examples.

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It is noteworthy that in recent years several management or organisational behaviour texts have apparently recoiled from the prescriptive approach, e.g. Rollinson (Organisational Behaviour and Analysis 4th Edn. Essex: 2008 p xvii) who ascribes it to ‘most American texts’. But many still assume that ‘the (aspiring) manager’ is the recipient of the textual advice.

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For example, Lund Dean and colleagues describe social science researchers ‘putting positivist methodological rigour before intellectual rigour’: Lund Dean, K, Fornaciari, CJ and McGee JJ Research in Spirituality, Religion and Work Journal of Organisational Change Management 16. 4. 2003 pp 378–395. Similarly, Morgan refers to the parallels drawn by economist Ely Devons between quantitative analysis and shamanism. Like the shaman, the magical analyst does not lose credibility when proved wrong — at least not until recent events in the banking industry (Morgan, op. cit. p 140).

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The paraphrases are from an interview with Bronk on BBC Radio Start the Week. His book, The Romantic Economist, is to be published in February 2009.

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