ABSTRACT
This chapter introduces various cultural enacted elements that help shape and serve as resources for effective individual, team, and the organizational culture performances. Physical objects or icons that may formally represent the organization, yet informally constitute varied organizing processes. For some of the employees the metaphor captured role division and the gender status differences within the agency, as well as the values of interdependence and competitiveness of the environment. In another analysis across organizations, metaphors surfaced as a primary means for describing the experience of workplace bullying. For instance, the role of “situational irony” based in incongruities has also been explored in the context of the international relief organization, “Doctors without Borders”. History involves knowledge of the purposes of its founding, and how it has evolved over the years; it also involves knowing the information about the founders of the organization.
