This book contains ideas, stories, cases, exercises, and pieces of information that will help the reader gain a broad-based understanding of the nature and functions of modern organizations. Preface, Acknowledgements, Mind stretchers, Flexibility and Intelligence, The Need for a Tool Chest, Developing Multiple Interpretations, Escaping from Dominant Ideas, Some Thought Patterns, Readings and Stories and Other Resources, The Evolution of Organization Theory, How to Kill Creativity, Working Under Mechanized Systems and Production, Organizational Technologies, Collaboration and Control, Some Sources of Organizational Conflict, Gender and Corporate Politics, Hooked on Work, The Bhopal Disaster, Cases and Exercises, Eagle Smelting, Arnold: Paradox of Creativity, The Nomizu Sake Company, Pluralist Management, Conflict at Riverside, The Hand Grenade, Quality Co-Op, Tipdale Engineering, Problems in the Machine Shop, Final Offer.