Organisation behaviour: Organisation analysis — the alternatives

The actual shape of organisations is very much an unintended affair, not a conscious design by any group of managers, of union representatives, or any other single group. We should try to imagine that organisations contain several major groupings, some of which are members of coalitions, and others who represent an opposition. All play their part — albeit unintended. Further, the organisation is shaped by both past decisions and by the images which people have of the future.