ABSTRACT
The technological project is not just a new way of engaging with the world. It is also a new way of understanding ourselves. Modern science, and the technological project that emerges from it, is different from classical science, which focused on careful observation. Firms will be more than willing to accommodate a large variety of idiosyncratic practices precisely because the technological project cannot proceed without this kind of individual. For the past 200 years, a particular intellectual vision the technological project has dominated the modern industrial and technologically advanced countries of the world. Democratization movements in management theory essentially attempt to replicate democratic socialism within the firm. Some recent attempts to introduce spirituality into the workplace are no more than the use of theological terminology to advance a social-democratic model of the workplace by clergy and others who have lost any real direct and daily sense of the transcendent.
