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Metaphor elicitation: A new way to assess organizational culture.

The purpose of this paper is to advance breakthrough research that further extends, as well as enrichens, our understanding of organizations. This is a companion article to “CEO Archetype Identity Drives Organization Culture” previously published in this journal. Archetypes are merely a special case of metaphors. In this paper, we generalize the concept of leadership archetypes to organization metaphors, adding original dimensions to existing concepts and theories of organizational diagnosis. Thus, the present research brings a new enlightening perspective to this field. Data from the past organization studies featured in this article involve the Zaltman Metaphorical Elicitation Technique (ZMET) embedded in qualitative in-depth personal interviews. These studies explore the impact of management styles on organization structure and functions. In each study metaphors were elicited from leaders and followers, and generated insights and action-oriented strategies to meet organizational challenges. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)

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Posted in: Journal Article Abstracts on 02/09/2022 | Link to this post on IFP |
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