Comments on: Organisational Change is Not a Relay Race

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By: Stephen

Stephen — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:58:00 +0000

I agree with Chris Rodgers that the organism metaphor is an improvement on the machine metaphor.

In your example, Chris Jones, the cells in a living organism would be similar to the people in an organisation. While the cells are adjusting to each other as you say, they cannot really be said to be interacting with consciousness, the way humans do. The interaction of cells is limited to their function for the organism – whether they are brain cells, heart, liver, muscles or whatever.

So I think the living organism analogy is of very little use, even though it’s better than the machine analogy.

By: Chris Rodgers

Chris Rodgers — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 13:57:50 +0000

Hi Chris,

I agree with you (and Stephen) that the machine metaphor is wholly inadequate when thinking about organizations in general and organizational change in particular. Unfortunately, because of its ‘promise’ of predictabilty and control, it still exerts a strong grip on managerial thinking and practice. How easy it would be if change did indeed happen by ‘pulling the right levers’ or ‘pushing the right buttons’. And how soul-destroying!

The organic metaphor offers a definite improvement. For me, though, there is still a problem in viewing organizations as “living organisms”. In particular, this does not take account of such things as power and politics; the dynamics of conversational interaction; the paradoxical nature of organization; or the fact that human beings have the capacity for self-consciousness and self-reflection.

All of these are unique to the human world. And it is dynamics such as these, I believe, that are fundamental to how change happens in organizations.

By: Chris Jones

Chris Jones — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 14:22:20 +0000

I agree with your analysis. I tend to frame this problem as two distinct visual metaphors: organization as machine (which you argue against) vs. organization as living organism. In the latter, there are transformations taking place in every cell. Granted, there are communication and control processes present in the organism also; each cell plays a vital role, as in a machine. But in a living organism, just as within an organization, success (survival and adaptation) depend on symbiotic adjustments from every minute part of the system. Machines excel at repetition. Organisms excel at change. No doubt the industrial age has influenced the thinking of executive management. We must choose our paradigms carefully, especially at critical times like organizational change.