Big Hat No Cattle: Using Animal Metaphors to Frame Strategic Human Resource Management

Tricia Cleland Silva

Big Hat No Cattle: Using Animal Metaphors to Frame Strategic Human Resource Management

Tricia Cleland Silva

Management and Organisation, Helsinki

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Abstract

What’s in a metaphor? This chapter explores interpretations of the metaphor ‘big hat, no cattle’ and what potential implications these interpretations have on practices within a scientific field of study. In this case, Strategic HRM. The chapter opens a discussion to the limitation of research within human management fields and calls for the vital importance of more open-minded, inductive, and inclusive approaches to research that involves or at least acknowledges all the species within the context of study. This requires researchers to be held accountable for the stories they tell and being critical of the limitations to human-centric storytelling.

Keywords: Accountability, Metaphor Conceptual Frame, Multispecies Strategic HRM, Storytelling,

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Oxford Handbook of Animal Organization Studies
Editors	Linda Tallberg, Lindsay Hamilton
Place of Publication	London
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Publication date	2023
ISBN (Print)	9780192848185
Publication status	Published - 2023
MoE publication type	A3 Book chapter

Keywords

512 Business and Management
ethics
animals
CSR
sustainablity
equality
metaphors
reconciliation

Areas of Strength and Areas of High Potential (AoS and AoHP)

AoS: Responsible organising

UN SDGs

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Big Hat No Cattle: Using Animal Metaphors to Frame Strategic Human Resource Management

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Areas of Strength and Areas of High Potential (AoS and AoHP)

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Big Hat No Cattle: Using Animal Metaphors to Frame Strategic Human Resource Management

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Areas of Strength and Areas of High Potential (AoS and AoHP)

UN SDGs

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Public sector renewal and the strategification of cities

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