Contents:Introduction: Organisation Development and metaphor - mapping the territory / Cliff Oswick and David Grant -- 1. Understanding organisations through metaphor / Ian Palmer and Richard Dunford -- 2. Organisation Development as a journey / Dawn Inns -- 3. The organisation as a human entity / Savita Kumra -- 4. Working with metaphor towards organisational change / Mike Broussine and Russ Vince -- 5. Culture: the search for a better organisational metaphor / Joy Hocking and Adrian Carr -- 6. The metaphoric gap as a catalyst of change / Jimme A. Keizer and Ger J. J. Post -- 7. Organisational culture as personality: lessons from psychology? / Cliff Oswick, Sidney Lowe and Philip Jones -- 8. English football as a metaphor for organisational change / Graeme Currie and Maire Kerrin -- 9. Insights into diagnosis: an exploration using visual metaphors / Cliff Oswick -- 10. The use of metaphor in the client-consultant relationship: a study of management consultants / Timothy Clark and Graeme Salaman. 11. Organisational change interventions: a new set of beliefs? / Nic Beech -- 12. Metaphors, human resource management and control / David Grant -- 13. Outdoor management development: a journey to the centre of the metaphor / Philip J. Jones -- 14. Small business development: explorations using biological metaphors / Lew Perren.