Instructions:
Please respond to following “Morgan’s Metaphor PSYCHIC PRISONS”250-275 words. The subject organizational context you need write about is an exact reflection of the “Morgan’s Metaphor, “Psychic Prison”. From the perspective of a leader/manager, discuss the benefit of identifying the functionality of your organization through the lens of the selected metaphor. What do you learn about your organization using that metaphor? What do you learn about your role in the organization through recognizing the metaphor at work “my role is restricted”?
Note: No citations/references required - First person is acceptable.
PSYCHIC PRISONS
Organisations are consciously and subconsciously created and sustained and people become imprisoned by mind maps to which these processes give rise. Socially constructed realities take on an existence and power of their own that control those who created them.
People in everyday life are trapped by their incomplete and flawed understanding of reality. They are able to free themselves from that, but many prefer to remain in the dark. People in organisations become trapped by success, by organisational slack, and by group processes that lead to groupthink.
Many organisations and industries failed because they were unable to move beyond the policies that made them successful to begin with. Secondly, in order to create certainty many organisations build in margins for error, which eventually leads to institutionalised inefficiency.
The psychic prison metaphor brings a set of perspectives that enable us to explore unconscious processes that trap people, it shows that our understanding of organisation is too rational, it draws attention to ethics, power relations, and it shows up barriers to innovation and change. But it also has limitations, namely that it ignores ideologies that control and shape organisations, it places a lot of emphasis on cognitive processes whereas exploitation, domination and control are rotted in material life, it encourages speculation, and it raises the risk of mind control.
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