Integrating Embodied Practice and Transformational Wisdom for Sustainable Organization and Leadership

Action, Prâxis, and the Art of Sustainable Living
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-0-367-89676-8
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 290 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 577 g

Reihe: The Practical Wisdom in Leadership and Organization Series

A multifaceted ecological and socio-cultural crisis confronts us, and the irresponsible and unsustainable operations and actions encouraging this predicament are bound up with contemporary societal, economic, organisational, and managerial practices. The recent and on-going global economic crisis with its failures of responsibility and pervasive (or existential) threat posed to natural ecologies are among many more manifestations of a profound disintegration, unwise forms of practices, and non-integral ways of living. The current crisis, scandals, and tensions between corporations and civil society, and numerous examples of unethical practices that are partly validated by common practice have helped to intensify demands to scrutinise corporate behaviour and practices. The increasingly instrumentalised contexts and impositions of neoliberal regimes with their systemic constraint call for a rethinking of phrónêtic capacities and dispositions for wise practices in prâxis and corresponding sustainable actions. This book explores how practical wisdom can be conceptualised and applied to practices that respond to the life-worldly realities of organisations. At the same time, it relates to prâxis, understood as situated conduct in an ethico-political configuration. It is this nexus that is mediating between individual and social actions (micro), organisations (meso), and economy/society (macro). This book invites dialogue for thought-provoking reflection on how wisdom can help organisations and leaders deal with our age’s most pressing challenges. It opens a path to considering how such an understanding can help us to more effectively and more critically understand and appropriately respond to complex, multifaceted, emerging phenomena. It will be of value to researchers, academics, and students interested in leadership, organisational studies, wisdom, and business ethics.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Küpers, Wendelin M.

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Personalwesen, Human Resource Management
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Unternehmensorganisation, Corporate Responsibility Unternehmensethik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Management: Führung & Motivation
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Unternehmensorganisation & Entwicklungsstrategien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction Part I. Understanding Practice, Action, and Praxis as Configuration 2. Understanding Practice and Action 3. Understanding Praxis Part II. Embodied, practical ‘transFormative’ Wisdom - Perspectives on Nietzsche’s philosophy and the art of living wisely 4. Re- and deconstructing virtue and practical wisdom 5. Perspectives on Nietzsche’s post-&-heroic Wisdom of Overman as Leader 6. Non-repressive Sublimation and Affirmations and Eternal Recurrence as wise Practice 7. Earthly wild Wisdom out of Spirit of Tragedy & ‘Gelassenheit’ 8. Elitism and Shortcomings in Nietzsche and perspectives on the art of wisdom 9. Conclusion: Wisdom as Artistry & Integration

Über Autor(innen)

Wendelin M. Küpers is Professor of Leadership and Organization Studies and academic vice-president at Karlshochschule International University in Karlsruhe, Germany. Combining a phenomenological and cross-disciplinary orientation, his research focuses on the embodied, emplaced, emotional, creative, and aesthetic dimensions of organising and managing. In his current research and teaching, he is focusing on more responsive, responsible, and wiser forms of organisations and management/leadership that are contributing towards more integral and sustainable practices. He is Associate Editor of the journal Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility and serves as an editorial board member and reviewer for various journals. He is the editor of the book series 'The Practical Wisdom in Leadership and Organization Series' with Routledge.