ABSTRACT
How do managers and leaders know what to do when they are caught off guard or taken by surprise? How do they create when they do not know what to do next? These are challenges of an organizational world of existential uncertainty; one where the future does not conform to but challenges our expectations and assumptions. Steven Segal demonstrates that creating in a world of existential uncertainty requires a new understanding of the relationship between management inquiry and the lived experience of organizing. Using existential philosophy he demonstrates how moods of concern serve as a framework to integrate management theory and practice, thereby providing a framework for managers, management educators, and consultants to share a common framework. In a globalized free market characterized by unexpected disruptions management inquiry is not a science conducted from an objective distance. The book advocates an existentially reflexive and participant observer perspective to management inquiry. By participating in managing, a felt sense of being a manager develops. Through existential observation new ways of organizing are made possible. It is inquiry from within rather than from an objective distance. Such inquiry opens new doors and opportunities. Existential hermeneutic phenomenology and the free market phenomenon of creative destruction are linked to each other. The former provides a framework to work through the breakdown in conventions of organizing that occur in creative destruction.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |16 pages
Introduction: Existential Anxiety and Management Inquiry
part |18 pages
Existential Experiences of Creative Destruction
chapter |16 pages
Uncertainty in the Marketplace of Management
part |88 pages
Introduction to Martin Heidegger's Being and Time
chapter |12 pages
Heidegger's Existential Hermeneutic Phenomenology in Management
chapter |18 pages
The Hermeneutic Circle of Existence
chapter |18 pages
Being-in-the-World
chapter |22 pages
Disruption as the Existential Basis of Being-in-Question
chapter |16 pages
The Existential Experience of Disclosing New Worlds
part |70 pages
Existential Crisis of Management Research, Education and Development
chapter |24 pages
Existential Reading of the Paradigm Crises in Management Scholarship
chapter |20 pages
Heidegger in Organizational Theory and Management Studies
chapter |24 pages
Existential Philosophical Reflection
part |40 pages
An Existential Hermeneutic Approach to Management Research
chapter |16 pages
Existential Crises as the Basis of Research Questions
part |56 pages
The Hermeneutic Circle of Becoming a Manager