Constructing shared understanding: The role of embodied metaphors in organization development
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A novel metaphoric approach to organization development, the use of embodied metaphors and uses of metaphor in organization development (OD), is discussed. This approach encourages OD practitioners to not only carefully identify metaphors in managerial discourse and reflect on what they reveal about the organization but rather to actively induce embodied metaphors that encompass underlying assumptions and tap into bodily, prereflexive forms of knowledge in the process of construction.
Publication Name: Journal of Applied Behavioral Science
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0021-8863
Year: 2006
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Creating the 'unfit': social Darwinism or social triage? Constructing a supply of patients in private psychiatric hospitals
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This article examines the concepts of social Darwinism and social triage in the context of the management of private psychiatric hospitals. Social Darwinism suggests that social fitness mediates survival but social triage suggests that certain groups, such as psychiatric patients, are labeled as socially unfit to benefit influential people or organizations.
Publication Name: Journal of Applied Behavioral Science
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0021-8863
Year: 2001
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Long-Range Studies of Mental Hospital Patients: An Important Area for Research in Chronic Disease
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The article, originally published in the journal in 1953 and currently available in online-only format, provides an overview of US psychiatric hospital admission and discharge rates and their economic, health, and social repercussions.
Publication Name: The Milbank Quarterly
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0887-378X
Year: 2005
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