Bringing Morgan’s metaphors in organization contexts: An essay review

Tohidian, Iman; Rahimian, H.

doi:10.1080/23311975.2019.1587808

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“…La concepción de las organizaciones, como organismos o ecosistemas biológicos, permite entenderlas como sistemas vivos abiertos que necesitan sobrevivir y crecen en medio ambiente del cual dependen para satisfacer sus variadas necesidades (Tohidian et al, 2019). Tanto los sistemas de las organizaciones o biológicos "involucran múltiples actores que interactúan positiva y negativamente como pares y como grupos, y flujos de recursos que pueden formarse o desarrollarse a partir de estas interacciones" (Mars et al, 2012).…”

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Las relaciones interespecíficas de las universidades con sus grupos de interés: metáfora biológica

2020

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El presente artículo tiene como objetivo identificar las diferentes relaciones interespecíficas a las que se enfrentan las universidades con sus grupos de interés, a través del uso de la metodología del desarrollo de metáforas biológicas. Las universidades conscientes de su misión reconocen la importancia de las relaciones con sus grupos de interés porque de ellas depende en gran medida su prestigio y reconocimiento. Se encontró que estas relaciones pueden asociarse con las interespecíficas que se dan a nivel biológico. El mutualismo, que puede llamarse "gana-gana", se observa en las relaciones entre la universidad y los estudiantes, los profesores, los funcionarios administrativos, y el sector privado y público; y el parasitismo, que puede ser generado desde adentro por varios grupos con interés individual. Se concluye que los modelos metafóricos biológicos son aplicables en la gestión de las relaciones interespecíficas de las universidades con sus grupos de interés.

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Las relaciones interespecíficas de las universidades con sus grupos de interés: metáfora biológica

2020

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“…THE USE OF METAPHORS TO ELICIT MEANING An extensive body of work demonstrates the pervasive nature of metaphors, how they have been used to describe complexities and how they shape the way people think and behave (Hendricks et al, 2018;Thibodeau & Boroditsky, 2011). To date, there has been significant emphasis on metaphors primarily as linguistic devices (Lakoff & Johnson, 2003;Marshak, 1993;Tohidian & Rahimian, 2019).…”

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The Evolution of Personal Frames of Reference: Metaphors as Potential Space

Flotman

Barnard

2022

IJDS

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Aim/Purpose: The aim of this study was to explore the value of metaphors as part of a reflexive practice in the context of the evolving frame of reference journey of PhD students in a consulting psychology programme. Background: This study reports on the journey of how the personal frames of reference of PhD students in consulting psychology had evolved at a large open-distance and e-learning university in South Africa. As their respective journeys of becoming consulting psychologists unfolded, participants’ evolutionary journeys were viewed through metaphors. Few studies have investigated how metaphors could be used as a powerful evocative tool to go beyond the rational, conscious and sanitized responses of participants, to explore their underlying frames of reference by surfacing and eliciting implicit meaning. Methodology: This study was based on a hermeneutic phenomenological methodological stance and congruently employed principles of socio-analytic inquiry. The context of this inquiry was a PhD programme in consulting psychology presented at a large open-distance e-learning tertiary institution. Participants comprised ten PhD students. These students were required to engage in various self-reflective exercises throughout their first year, such as journaling and self-reflective essays. Their final exercise was to present their evolving frame of reference as a consulting psychologist, in the form of a visual or tangible metaphor. These final presentations became the protocols for hermeneutic phenomenological analysis in this study. Metaphors were selected through purposive sampling, and they became the “data sources” of the study. Contribution: The study contributes to the teaching of reflexivity in consulting practice. It has implications for the training of doctoral students by making a process available through which students and consultants could access and develop their personal frames of reference. The study shares valuable pedagogical and growth experiences from the perspective of the student in consulting psychology. The research advances the field of consulting psychology by introducing the notion of metaphors as potential space and stimulates further engagement in art-based qualitative inquiry from a socio-analytic stance. Findings: The findings suggest that metaphors have value because they create a connection to emotions, emotional processes and emotional work, facilitate the professional identity construction and reconstruction process and enable a shift from self-reflection to self-reflexivity. It is proposed that metaphors have the inherent capacity to act as potential space. Recommendations for Practitioners: Identity tensions could be alleviated through conscious identity work, when psychologists from different categories transition into consulting psychologists. We pose questions for practitioners to consider. Recommendation for Researchers: Doctoral programmes and research on doctoral studies should explicitly engage with both conscious and unconscious dynamics. This could relate to identity work, relationships and the power of reflexive practices. Impact on Society: Dropout rates of doctoral students are high. The time to complete the degree is also long. This comes at a price for the student, the institution and society. Aspects related to frame of reference, philosophical assumptions, and identity work to be done by the doctoral student should be considered as critical to doctoral programmes and doctoral education. Future Research: Future studies could investigate how consulting frames of reference relate to anxiety, identity and the well-being of doctoral students. Studies could also be conducted to see how the participants’ frames of reference in this study have further evolved over their consulting careers.

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“…Metaphor has extensively used in organization studies (e.g. see Armenakis & Bedeian, 1992;Boxenbaum & Rouleau, 2011;Cafferata, 1982;Carr & Leivesley, 1995;Cassell & Lee, 2012;Cleary & Packard, 1992;Cornelissen, 2006;Cornelissen, Kafouros, & Lock, 2005;Daft & Weick, 1984;Faghih, Bavandpour, & Forouharfar, 2016;Inns, 2002;Kendall & Kendall, 1993;McCourt, 1997;Meyer, 1984;Örtenblad, Putnam, & Trehan, 2016;Palmer & Lundberg, 1995;Putnam, Phillips, & Chapman, 1999;Smith & Turner, 1995;Tohidian & Rahimian, 2019;Van Engen, 2008;Walsham, 1991). According to Faghih et al (2016, p. 3), "Metaphors efficiently simplify the most complex phenomena and issues by putting emphasis on their key qualities.…”

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The anatomy and ontology of organizational power as a fractal metaphor: A philosophical approach

Forouharfar

2020

Cogent Business & Management

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Fractal metaphor could be introduced to organization studies to elaborate on those organizational concepts that call for self-organization, self-similarity, similarity persistence in different organizational levels, symmetrical expansion, homogeneous discipline and quality, omnipresent controlling measures, and growth, as well as the organizational processes and procedures that require recursion. Organizational power is an abstract entity which could precisely be explained via a metaphorical fractal. Thus, Sierpinski Triangle, a familiar geometrical fractal has been applied in the paper with the purpose to unfold the fractal characteristics of the power within organizations. Such an approach presumes power characteristics as hierarchical, pyramidal, distributive, recursive, accumulative, dependent, comparative, and unequal. The discussions through the paper could contribute to future organization theorists to form an idea on two ubiquitous concepts of organizational power: directionality and dimensionality. Moreover, the paper theorizes the triangular combination of need, interest, and relationship as ontological elements of potential power and a fourth entity (enforcement) in combination with the three previous elements as the necessary elements of every pragmatic power.

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Bringing Morgan’s metaphors in organization contexts: An essay review

Cited by 15 publications

References 22 publications

Las relaciones interespecíficas de las universidades con sus grupos de interés: metáfora biológica

Las relaciones interespecíficas de las universidades con sus grupos de interés: metáfora biológica

The Evolution of Personal Frames of Reference: Metaphors as Potential Space

The anatomy and ontology of organizational power as a fractal metaphor: A philosophical approach

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