Organizational Behavior

Roles: employee, manager, hierarchy, promotion, competence, dysfunction, bureaucracy

How human organizations structure authority, allocate roles, and produce both productive coordination and systemic dysfunction. As a source domain, organizational behavior exports models of hierarchy (promotion ladders, chains of command), institutional pathology (the Peter Principle, Parkinson’s Law), and the gap between formal structure and actual practice. Its metaphors are potent because everyone who has worked in an organization has experienced the friction between individual capability and institutional logic.

As Source Frame (3)

• Peter Principle
• Shirky Principle
• Software Peter Principle → software-programs

Applied To This Frame (91)

• food-and-cooking → A La Minute
• architecture-and-building → A Room of One's Own
• architecture-and-building → Alcoves
• food-and-cooking → All Day
• manufacturing → Andon
• ecology → Apex Predator
• military-history → An Army Marches on Its Stomach
• ecology → Biodiversity Loss
• war → Boots on the Ground
• architecture-and-building → Break Down Barriers
• fire-safety → Burnout
• ecology → Carrying Capacity
• military-command → Chain of Command
• software-architecture → Chain of Responsibility
• food-and-cooking → Chef de Partie
• food-and-cooking → Cleaning As You Go
• life-course → Coming of Age
• horticulture → Cross-Pollination
• food-and-cooking → Dead Plate
• hydrology → Dead Sea Effect
• war → Defense-to-Offense Transition
• food-and-cooking → Dying on the Pass
• ecology → Ecological Niche
• ecology → Ecological Resilience
• ecology → Ecological Succession
• ecology → Edge Effect
• food-and-cooking → Eighty-Six
• military-history → Every Soldier Carries a Marshal's Baton
• food-and-cooking → Expo
• architecture-and-building → Facade
• agriculture → Fallow Period
• agriculture → Feed the Soil, Not the Plant
• food-and-cooking → Fire
• ecology → Food Chain
• food-and-cooking → Front of House / Back of House
• horticulture → Grafting
• carpentry → Heartwood and Sapwood
• manufacturing → Heijunka
• narrative-and-storytelling → Hero's Journey
• containers → Holding Environment
• manufacturing → Hoshin Kanri
• food-and-cooking → In the Weeds
• fire-safety → Incident Command System
• ecology → Indicator Species
• physics → Influence Is Physical Force
• manufacturing → Jidoka
• manufacturing → Just-in-Time
• manufacturing → Kaizen
• manufacturing → Kanban
• martial-arts → Kata
• ecology → Keystone Species
• vision → Mirror Role of Mother
• food-and-cooking → Mise en Place
• ecology → Monoculture
• military-history → Moral Is to Physical as Three Is to One
• ecology → Mutualism as Metaphor
• horticulture → Nemawashi
• ecology → Old Growth vs. Clear-Cut
• food-and-cooking → On the Fly
• geology → Organizational Memory Is Archaeological Layers
• ecology → Panarchy
• architecture-and-building → Parasitic Architecture
• manufacturing → PDCA Cycle
• ecology → Pioneer Species
• manufacturing → Poka-Yoke
• ecology → Pollinator as Metaphor
• food-and-cooking → Prep
• horticulture → Pruning for Growth
• agriculture → Put Out to Pasture
• fluid-dynamics → Scaling Is Dilution
• religion → Scapegoat
• architecture-and-building → Something Roughly in the Middle
• food-and-cooking → Sous Chef
• journeys → Stages of Development
• economics → Status Transactions
• food-and-cooking → Stretch It
• ecology → Symbiosis As Metaphor
• manufacturing → System of Profound Knowledge
• geometry → T-Shaped People
• food-and-cooking → The Line
• food-and-cooking → The Pass
• food-and-cooking → The Rush
• food-and-cooking → Ticket Rail
• game-theory → Tragedy of the Commons
• ecology → Trophic Cascade
• performance → True Self / False Self
• military-command → Unity of Command
• biology → Vestigial Structure
• economics → White Elephant
• manufacturing → Work in Progress
• improvisation → Yes, And