About Organization Paremiology
Organization Paremiology is a field aimed at improving organizational performance and impact. Paremiology means the study of proverbs. Organization Paremioloy is the use of the indigenous wisdom in the proverbs to improve performance in organizations.

The four key tools of Organization Paremiology are: parables, metaphors, aspects of (African Culture), and African Proverbs and Folktales.

Introduction
Organization Paremiology fills a big need in Organizational improvement studies and practice in Africa and the world today (Malunga, 2010). In the face of increasing organizational challenges, the level of knowledge and practice to deal with them remain significantly low. All the models accepted and employed so far have been developed in the West. These models have a worldview that may not always be congruent with the local realities in Arica. The fact that Organization Paremiology originates from and is rooted in Africa ensures more effectiveness in the Organizational Improvement efforts of practitioners on the continent, especially in ensuring more legitimacy, relevance, and sustainability of results.

Organizational Consciousness
Organization Paremiology is based on the African worldview of Ubuntu – the African concept and philosophy of community and the essence of being human. The Ubuntu cosmos is holistic. It encompasses the material and the spiritual. The spiritual reality is accepted without question. It is believed the human being is a spiritual being. However, this consciousness is absent from the modern worldview we mostly work with. As a result, most people are unconscious of this fact of their spirituality.

In Ubuntu thinking, a person becomes ‘spiritually conscious’ or ‘spiritually alive’ the day he or she discovers why they were put on earth. Spirituality relates closely to purpose. For some, this occurs spontaneously. For some, it is a gradual evolution which unfolds almost unconsciously. For others, it does not happen at all throughout all their life. They sleepwalk their way through life. The same is true for an organization.
Human beings are trinity beings. They comprise the body, the mind (the soul or the self) and the spirit. The current worldview causes human beings to be more conscious of their outer elements than their inner elements. For example, all human beings are aware that they have a body. Most are aware that they have a mind, and very few are aware that they have a spirit. In fact, not many people can locate where their spirit is. The same is true with organizations. Organization Paremiology shows that organizations have bodies, minds, and spirits. The body of the organization includes its material and financial resources. The organization’s mind consists of its skills and competencies; policies, systems, and procedures; its structure: roles and responsibilities and its strategy. The spirit of the organization comprises its culture, values and norms; leadership; and vision and mission.

From Dr. Malunga’s last book Organization Paremiology: A new Approach to Organizational Performance Improvement