Elements of a Philosophy of Management and Organization

by Peter Koslowski
Elements of a Philosophy of Management and Organization
Author: Peter Koslowski
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2010-03-10
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3642111408
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Managing as a form of human action has an inherent link with philosophy, which is also concerned with choosing the right action and the best way to lead our lives. Management theory and philosophy can join forces in epistemology (the philosophy of knowledge), ethics, and cultural theory. The epistemology of management concerns the question of how management can improve its ability to create knowledge about managing companies and about using management theory in the task of managing. Management ethics investigates the question of what the right management actions are. The cultural theory of management examines how corporate culture can increase the cooperation within the firm and how the cultural surplus value of products and brand management can increase the firm’s value creation in its products. This book introduces the readers to central approaches in this new field, which represents a synthesis of management and philosophical theory.

Organizational Project Management

by Ralf Müller
Organizational Project Management
Author: Ralf Müller
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2019
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1788110978
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This concise text introduces an integrated view of all project management-related activities in an organization, called Organizational Project Management (OPM). Practical cases from several organizations, as well as popular theories such as the Resource-Based Theory and Institutional Theory provide for an insightful yet realistic understanding of OPM as an integrative tool for organizations to improve their efficiency and effectiveness.

The Elements of Knowledge Organization

by Richard P. Smiraglia
The Elements of Knowledge Organization
Author: Richard P. Smiraglia
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 104
Release: 2014-09-02
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3319093576
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The Elements of Knowledge Organization is a unique and original work introducing the fundamental concepts related to the field of Knowledge Organization (KO). There is no other book like it currently available. The author begins the book with a comprehensive discussion of “knowledge” and its associated theories. He then presents a thorough discussion of the philosophical underpinnings of knowledge organization. The author walks the reader through the Knowledge Organization domain expanding the core topics of ontologies, taxonomies, classification, metadata, thesauri and domain analysis. The author also presents the compelling challenges associated with the organization of knowledge. This is the first book focused on the concepts and theories associated with KO domain. Prior to this book, individuals wishing to study Knowledge Organization in its broadest sense would generally collocate their own resources, navigating the various methods and models and perhaps inadvertently excluding relevant materials. This text cohesively links key and related KO material and provides a deeper understanding of the domain in its broadest sense and with enough detail to truly investigate its many facets. This book will be useful to both graduate and undergraduate students in the computer science and information science domains both as a text and as a reference book. It will also be valuable to researchers and practitioners in the industry who are working on website development, database administration, data mining, data warehousing and data for search engines. The book is also beneficial to anyone interested in the concepts and theories associated with the organization of knowledge. Dr. Richard P. Smiraglia is a world-renowned author who is well published in the Knowledge Organization domain. Dr. Smiraglia is editor-in-chief of the journal Knowledge Organization, published by Ergon-Verlag of Würzburg. He is a professor and member of the Information Organization Research Group at the School of Information Studies at University of Wisconsin Milwaukee.

The Philosophical Foundations of Management Thought

by Jean-Etienne Joullié
The Philosophical Foundations of Management Thought
Author: Jean-Etienne Joullié
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2020-10-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 179363016X
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The book's premise is that the theories taught in management schools are based on unacknowledged philosophical perspectives that are significant not so much for what they explain, but for what they assume. Rarely made explicit, these perspectives cannot be reconciled, with the result that the study of management has been dominated by contradictions and internecine intellectual warfare. However, the ability critically to analyze these diverse perspectives is essential to practicing and aspiring managers if they are to evaluate expert opinion. 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 foundations. Managing is a prime example of applied philosophy.

An Introduction to the Philosophy of Management

by Paul Griseri
An Introduction to the Philosophy of Management
Author: Paul Griseri
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2013-04-17
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 144627523X
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An introduction to key philosphical concepts applied to the funamental issues in management and organizations.

The Company Democracy Model

by Evangelos Markopoulos
The Company Democracy Model
Author: Evangelos Markopoulos
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 326
Release: 2022-03-14
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1000484688
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Company democracy is often misunderstood in the business context as democracy is usually related to politics. In this book, the authors present a different dimension. They focus first on democracy from an organizational culture perspective and then offer employees opportunities to understand and apply democracy from the company floor level. The Company Democracy Model (CDM) is an industry-wide, practical methodology for knowledge management utilization under applied philosophical thinking. The model progresses through a framework in which an organizational evolutionary spiral method empowers the creation of knowledge-based democratic cultures for wise and effective strategic management and leadership. This new innovative methodology, supported with techniques and processes, can gain/create many ideas, insights, innovations, new products, and services that can benefit a company. One purpose of using the model is to create a robust conceptual framework as a theoretical basis for a business strategy that promotes sustainable, continuous, and democratic development. Another purpose is to emphasize the importance of intellectual capital and compare capital-related and human-related business issues in shaping a company’s competitiveness, profitability, productivity, performance, and shared value. A third purpose is to use its symbolic infrastructure that builds solid democratic systems for viable business development and management. Finally, the described purposes give the reader new ideas to change and improve the design of business activities in a collective and modern democratic way.

The Philosophy of Management Research

by Eric W.K. Tsang
The Philosophy of Management Research
Author: Eric W.K. Tsang
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2016-08-19
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1315463202
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The field of management research is commonly regarded as or aspires to be a science discipline. As such, management researchers face similar methodological problems as their counterparts in other science disciplines. There are at least two ways that philosophy is connected with management research: ontological and epistemological. Despite an increasing number of scattered philosophy-based discussions of research methodology, there has not been a book that provides a systematic and more comprehensive treatment of the subject. This book addresses this gap in the market and provides new ideas and arguments for guiding management researchers.

Principles of Management

by David S. Bright
Principles of Management
Author: David S. Bright
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-05-16
Genre:
ISBN: 9781998109166
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Black & white print. Principles of Management is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of the introductory course on management. This is a traditional approach to management using the leading, planning, organizing, and controlling approach. Management is a broad business discipline, and the Principles of Management course covers many management areas such as human resource management and strategic management, as well as behavioral areas such as motivation. No one individual can be an expert in all areas of management, so an additional benefit of this text is that specialists in a variety of areas have authored individual chapters.