Organizational Metaphors: Faith as Key to Functional Organizations

Book Overview

1. From Dysfunction to Function: An Expansion of the Organizational Metaphor

Part I: Organizational Dysfunction

2. An Introduction to Organizational Dysfunction

3. White Blood Cell Behavior as an Organizational Metaphor

4. Organization of the Living Dead: The Zombie Enterprise

5. Pygmalion Mirage as an Organizational Metaphor

Part II: Moving from Organizational Dysfunction to Organizational Convergence

6. Introducing Workplace Spirituality as a Catalyst to Transform from Dysfunction to Organizational Convergence

7. Shepherding the Flock: Shepherd Leadership in Multi-Cultural Environment

8. Climbing the Corporate Ladder: Using the Ladder as an Organizational Metaphor

9. Vineyard as an Organizational Metaphor

10. Music as an Organizational Metaphor: Deadpan and Expressive Organizations

Part III: Organizational Convergence

11. Dystopia as an Organizational Metaphor

12. The Organization as a Mixed Martial Artist: A Metaphor for Environmental Uncertainty

13. The Book Metaphor and its Representation of an Organization

14. Conclusion

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 303041714X
• ISBN13: 9783030417147
• Release Date: May 2021
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 185 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.8" x 8.3"