It may, in fact, require caricature. In many different organizations, the same myths apply. Cultural forces and basic assumptions influence people's behaviors in ways that reappear year after year, even decade after decade. People like to see those forces appear in stories, and especially in stories set in some other context. I am better able to hear my myth in your story.
Systems archetypes have a mythic component.
But there is also a danger in consciously seeking out old myths and archetypal story lines. In any story involving human beings, there are a series of myths at play. Our challenge, as artists, is to find the most powerful of those stories as they rise out of the material . We want, with all our intellect and intuition, to get to the heart of the matter. We look for soul.