Biological metaphor and analogy upon organizational management research within the development of clinical organizational pathology

The Organizational Position Metaphor

Biological pathology from an organizational perspective.

In contrast to the "normativist" view, "naturalist" theorists claim that the concept of health refers to natural or normal states and propose different characterizations of healthy and diseased conditions that are meant to be objectivist and biologically grounded. In this article, we examine the core concept of these naturalist accounts of disease, i.e., the concept of biological malfunction, a...

Organizational Support and Research Self-efficacy: The Moderating Role of Development of Teachers’ Capability of Futurology

This study aimed to assess the organizational support and research self-efficacy relationship. This study also investigated development of teachers’ capability of futurology as a moderator in the relationship mentioned above. This applied research had a descriptive, correlational design. The statistical population of the study was comprised of 359 elementary school teachers in Behshahr in 2018-...

islamic azad university shahrood branch department of management and accounting , faculty of management thesis submitted for the degree of m.a subject: relationship between organizational justice and organizational commitment contacts city minoodasht thesis advisor: d.r hassan forati ph.d by: jafar mamashli winter 2014

امروزه اندیشمندان دانش مدیریت با توجه به تغییرات و دگرگونی های پیوسته ای که سازمان ها با آن مواجه هستند، به این نتیجه رسیده اند که مهمترین عامل کسب مزیت رقابتی در سازمان ها، منابع انسانی است. تعهد سازمانی یک نگرش درباره وفاداری کارکنان به سازمان و فرآیند مستمری است که از طریق آن اعضای سازمان علاقه خود را به سازمان، موفقیت و کارایی پیوسته آن نشان می دهند. این پژوهش با بررسی مبانی نظری به بررسی ر...

Multi-metaphor method: organizational metaphors in information systems development

Conventional methods have been criticized for their positivist philosophy and for either ignoring the organizational context of information systems development (ISD) or using only a simplistic, machine-based conceptual model of organizations. We have developed an approach to enable systems developers to use a richer view of organizations and a more interpretive approach. MultiMetaphor Method (M...