Andere Kunden interessierten sich auch für
![Sense of Safety in Urban Public Spaces]( "Sense of Safety in Urban Public Spaces")
Sense of Safety in Urban Public Spaces66,99 €![Translatability of Metaphors]( "Translatability of Metaphors")
Translatability of Metaphors55,99 €![Biology as Society, Society as Biology: Metaphors]( "Biology as Society, Society as Biology: Metaphors")
Biology as Society, Society as Biology: Metaphors113,99 €![Grains of Sense]( "Grains of Sense")
Grains of Sense17,90 €![Making Sense of Motherhood]( "Making Sense of Motherhood")
Making Sense of Motherhood102,99 €![Sense and Sensibility, and Persuasion]( "Sense and Sensibility, and Persuasion")
Sense and Sensibility, and Persuasion34,90 €![The Spiritual Sense of Dante's Divian Commedia]( "The Spiritual Sense of Dante's Divian Commedia")
The Spiritual Sense of Dante's Divian Commedia20,90 €
This study explores metaphors we use to make sense of organizational reality. One hundred thirty-two mission statements collected across the University of North Carolina system comprise the textual source of analysis. Austin and Searle s speech act theory is employed to intertextually identify metaphors, which are then analyzed in line with Weick s framework of sensemaking. Elements of the sensemaking process are evidenced in hierarchical metaphors: (i) environment-screening: environment as change (organizations as positioned, time-pacer, and wind-catcher); (ii) enactment: enactment as changer (the university as a plate of loose sand, professional, and mission-setter); (iii) selection: organization as relevance-maker (the university as teacher, researcher, server, strategist, and goal-hitter); (iv) retention: organization as retainer (the university as value-keeper and role-player (center, community, leader, and leader-preparer); and (v) remembering: organization as rememberer (the university as history-defender and principle-observer). Together, they comprise metaphors we make sense by.