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Area of Science:

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  • Public Health
  • Problem-Solving Dynamics

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  • Limited understanding of the fundamental nature of organizational problems.
  • Need for novel frameworks to address issues that evade leader awareness.
  • Relevance of public health crisis management to organizational challenges.

Purpose of the Study:

  • Introduce the
  • virus-like
  • problem metaphor for organizational issues.
  • Analyze characteristics of these problems: hidden nature, difficult source identification, and rapid spread.
  • Leverage COVID-19 pandemic lessons for organizational problem management.

Main Methods:

  • Conceptual framework development using a public health (virus) metaphor.
  • Integration of organizational psychology principles with pandemic management insights.
  • Qualitative analysis of problem characteristics and spread dynamics.

Main Results:

  • Defined
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  • problems as a distinct category within organizations.
  • Identified key attributes: stealth, attribution difficulty, and contagion.
  • Demonstrated parallels between managing pandemics and organizational crises.

Conclusions:

  • The
  • virus-like
  • problem metaphor provides a novel lens for understanding organizational challenges.
  • Leaders can apply public health strategies to detect and mitigate hidden, spreading problems.
  • Further research can explore specific interventions for these types of organizational issues.