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Pages 66-75
Published online: 28 Dec 2017
 
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The Game Pentagon identifies organizational and cultural dimensions of games. Reflection on experience on a Bombay train and connections made with Berne's and Karpman's work on games gave rise to identifying the societal dimension of game analysis, distinct from the individual dimension commonly used in TA. Organizational game analysis is not simply the application of models of individual game analysis to organizations, communities, groups, and cultures. Rather, the Game Pentagon provides a new kind of game analysis, and hence names of the five most common roles are summarized: Stage Manager, Spectator, Savior, Sniper, and Scapegoat. An organizational example of the practical utility of the Game Pentagon paradigm is provided.

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Oswald Summerton

Oswald Summerton, S.J., is an ITAA Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst, a Clinical Teaching Member of Transactional Analysis Society of India (TASI) and the Western Pacific Association for Transactional Analysis (WPATA), and Director of the Transactional Analytic Centre for Education, Research and Training (TACET) in New Delhi, India. His address is: St Xavier's School, 4 Raj Niwas Marg, Delhi-110054, India. The Game Pentagon, copyright Oswald Summerton, 1990.