TITLE:
Metaphor, Women’s Studies and the Gender Category as Instruments for the Study of University Organizations
AUTHORS:
Nohemí Roque Nieto, Augusto Renato Pérez Mayo, Pablo Guerrero Sánchez, Beatriz Lizbeth Rodríguez Bahena
KEYWORDS:
Metaphor, Women’s Studies, Gender Category, Organization Study
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Human Resource and Sustainability Studies,
Vol.13 No.3,
August
14,
2025
ABSTRACT: Educational organizations and their organizational problems are becoming increasingly complex and cannot be explained solely through the lens of rational science, the theoretical bodies of administration, and organizational theory. Doing so has entailed “observing” them solely from “the metaphor of the ‘thing’” according to Kosic, from the perspective of measurement. This quantitative perspective has necessarily forced us to look at them with different eyes, recognizing the subjectivity and intersubjectivity of the subjects, as well as how they construct organizational realities, and therefore the configurations of organizations through social interaction and any type of communication in the language and in the language where the social is constituted. It creates new possibilities and new nuclei of intelligibility. The perspective on the organization must be from another horizon of analysis: The discourse and narrative of the actors. The objective of this paper is to expose the importance of alternatives of conceptual categories such as metaphor that allow the analysis and study of phenomena that occur in university organizations.