Organizational Structure Questions

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One part of this paper presents a summary of three text book chapters, on two metaphors for an organization (the organism and the brain) as well as a chapter on corporate culture and how to assess it. The other part of the paper is an essay proposing a metaphor to describe an organization, and how and why it does so. In this case, the metaphor chosen was that of the family.

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"Organization as a Metaphor. One metaphor that almost immediately comes to mind, especially these days, is that of the organization as a family. On one level, the similarities (at least if we look at it idealistically) are so marked that this almost does not seem like a metaphor at all. After all, if two things are analogous, or if they are meant to fill the same niche or function in a similar way, they are not metaphors for each other."

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