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Figure 9.3
A school in its environment

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management. In Part III we shall explore further what this involves, and how
to influence the environment’s demands.
MODELS OF ORGANIZATIONS
The way in which managers conceptualize organizations influences the way
they manage them, so it is worth exploring some of the main models that are
used in relation to organizations, in addition to the simple one described in
the last section. Managers familiar with the various models or schools of
thought about organizations are better able to select an appropriate one to
deal with the particular situation they need to manage.
There is no one ‘right’ model of so complex an entity as an organization:
different models are different approximations to the truth. On management
courses we have found that people are helped by having a map of the various
models or schools of thought which have had an important influence. Such a
map appears in Figure 9.5.
Figure 9.4
The learning organization model (after Garratt, 1987)

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