Work, Death, and Life Itself

Essays on Management and Organization

By: Burkard Sievers

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Hardcover | 1 January 1993

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This unusual and thought-provoking work questions current mainstream approaches to organizational psychology. Grounded in organizational symbolism the author depicts the potential meaning of work in the broader context of life and death. Thus Siever's book is a fundamental critique of motivation, participation and leadership research.
With human mortality in mind, organization and management appear in a different light: motivation as a surrogate for meaning, participation and management as a quarrel about immortality, and leadership as a perpetuation of immaturity. Sievers advocates a "management of wisdom".

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Introduction
Motivation as a Surrogate for Meaning	p. 1
Motivation as Invention	p. 3
Beyond Motivation	p. 8
Fragmentation and Splitting	p. 12
Work and the Loss of Meaning	p. 26
Meaning beyond Surrogates	p. 39
Participation as a Collusive Quarrel about Immortality	p. 47
Participation as a Quarrel	p. 49
Participation as a Process of Mutual Collusion	p. 59
Participation as a Collusive Quarrel	p. 91
Participation as a Quarrel about Immortality	p. 99
Beyond Collusion: Participation among Mortals	p. 144
Leadership as a Perpetuation of Immaturity	p. 157
Introduction: Discontent with Contemporary Leadership Research	p. 159
Leadership Between Reification and Deification	p. 166
Towards a De-reification and De-deification of Leadership	p. 173
Leadership as a Myth	p. 181
The Mythology of Leadership	p. 185
Leadership as a Perpetuation of Immaturity	p. 198
Maturity and Immaturity	p. 201
Maturity and our Adult Roots in Immaturity	p. 213
Towards a New Myth of Management	p. 228
Leadership as the Management of Meaning	p. 246
The Management of Wisdom	p. 257
Excursus on the Category of Wisdom	p. 260
Wisdom as a Modality of Experience	p. 279
The Dialectical Function of Wisdom	p. 282
The Experience of Nothingness	p. 286
From Leadership Style to a Culture of Wisdom	p. 292
The Range of Wisdom and its Impact on Management Development	p. 303
References	p. 313
Author Index	p. 341
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