Work, death, and life itself: essays on management and organization Sievers, Burkard

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Sievers, Burkard

Series: De Gruyter studies in organization: Vol. 51Publication details: Walter de Gruyter and Co. 1994 BerlinDescription: xviii, 346 pISBN:

9783110138696

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DDC classification:

658 S4W6

Summary: This unusual and thought-provoking work questions current mainstream approaches to organizational psychology. Grounded in organizational symbolism the author depicts the potential meaning of work in the broader context of life and death. Thus Siever's book is a fundamental critique of motivation, participation and leadership research. With human mortality in mind, organization and management appear in a different light: motivation as a surrogate for meaning, participation and management as a quarrel about immortality, and leadership as a perpetuation of immaturity. Sievers advocates a "management of wisdom". (http://www.degruyter.com/view/product/173776?rskey=zR46gZ&format=G)

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Book	Ahmedabad General Stacks	Non-fiction	658 S4W6 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		189933

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This unusual and thought-provoking work questions current mainstream approaches to organizational psychology. Grounded in organizational symbolism the author depicts the potential meaning of work in the broader context of life and death. Thus Siever's book is a fundamental critique of motivation, participation and leadership research. With human mortality in mind, organization and management appear in a different light: motivation as a surrogate for meaning, participation and management as a quarrel about immortality, and leadership as a perpetuation of immaturity. Sievers advocates a "management of wisdom".

(http://www.degruyter.com/view/product/173776?rskey=zR46gZ&format=G)

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