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The philosophical foundations of management thought Joullie, Jean-Etienne

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Rowman and Littlefield Publisher 2015 LanhamDescription: xiv, 347 pISBN:
  • 9780739186022
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 658.001 J6P4
Summary: This book proposes a review of important Western philosophies and their significance for managers, management academics, and management consultants. Management theories taught in management schools that managers and consultants are supposed to apply are built upon different perspectives of the world, man, and society that are important not so much for what they lead to, but for what they assume. Although rarely made explicit, these assumptions cannot be reconciled and are at the source of many incompatibilities that management academia has been busy ignoring or obfuscating. The ability to evaluate critically these perspectives is essential to managers if they are to make sense of what experts profess, however. Moreover, since management is primarily an exercise in communication, managing is impossible in the darkness of an imprecise language, in the absence of moral references or in the senseless outline of a world without intellectual bases. Managing is an applied philosophical activity; any attempt at repairing management academia and the practices it has produced must accept this conclusion as its premise. https://rowman.com/ISBN/9780739186022/The-Philosophical-Foundations-of-Management-Thought#
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Table of Contents:

1. Ancient Heroism: Managing Heroically
2. Greek Rationalism: Managing Truthfully
3. Italian Renaissance: Managing For and By Power
4. French Rationalism: Managing Rationally
5. British Empiricism: Managing Empirically
6. Positivism: Managing Scientifically I
7. Critical Rationalism: Managing Scientifically II
8. German Romanticism: Managing as an Artist
9. Heroic Individualism: Managing as an Aristocrat
10. Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry: Managing Mind
11. French Existentialism: Managing, Freedom, and Responsibility
12. Postmodernism: Managing Without Foundations

This book proposes a review of important Western philosophies and their significance for managers, management academics, and management consultants. Management theories taught in management schools that managers and consultants are supposed to apply are built upon different perspectives of the world, man, and society that are important not so much for what they lead to, but for what they assume. Although rarely made explicit, these assumptions cannot be reconciled and are at the source of many incompatibilities that management academia has been busy ignoring or obfuscating. The ability to evaluate critically these perspectives is essential to managers if they are to make sense of what experts profess, however. Moreover, since management is primarily an exercise in communication, managing is impossible in the darkness of an imprecise language, in the absence of moral references or in the senseless outline of a world without intellectual bases. Managing is an applied philosophical activity; any attempt at repairing management academia and the practices it has produced must accept this conclusion as its premise.

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