Investigating Being in Organizations and Leadership: A Phenomenological Alternative
Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction to the Philosophical Investigation of Being in Organizations -- The Logic and Building of the Book -- References -- Chapter 2: The Individuality of Experience in Organizational Life -- The Human Being and Knowing the World -- Consciousness and Intentionality -- Understanding as Being in the Lifeworld -- The Movement in Understanding -- The Lifeworld: The "I" Being in the World -- References -- Chapter 3: The I and the Becoming of Social Being -- The Intersubjective Puddle -- References -- Chapter 4: Organizational Dialectics and the Becoming of the Organization -- The Dialectic of Being -- The Dialectic of Organization -- The Context -- Interaction as the Dialectical Ground -- The Organizational Dialectic in the Totality -- References -- Chapter 5: Leadership as the Direction of Being -- References -- Chapter 6: Existential Morality -- Being Together -- Thinking and Analyzing -- Ability and Empathy -- Time and Memory -- Alternatives and Self-Reflection -- References -- Chapter 7: A Commentary on Sustainability and Organizational Life -- The Complexity of the Human Being -- Organizational Life -- The Ending: Reflections on Science and Criteria for an Organizational Understanding -- References -- Index.