Managing VUCA through integrative self-management : how to cope with volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity in organizational behavior /: how to cope with volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity in organizational behavior. ([2017])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Sharda S. Nandram, Puneet K. Bindlish, editors.
• Editors: Nandram, Sharda S; Bindlish, Puneet K
• Contents: Foreword; Life Is a Journey; Words of Praise; Whole World Is a Family; Preface; Contents; Editors and Contributors; About the Editors; Contributors; List of Abbreviations; Part I: Swadharma: Self-Righteousness: Towards Intrinsic Guidance by Our Inner Life; Introduction to VUCA; 1 Understanding VUCA; 2 Integrative Self-Management as a Way Forward; 3 Structure of the Book; 3.1 Part 1 Swadharma; 3.2 Part 2 Swavalamban; 3.3 Part 3 Swaraaj; 3.4 Part 4 Integrative-ness; References; Spiritual Discernment as a Method of Judgment; 1 The Nature and Practice of Spiritual Discernment. 2 Hannah Arendtś Discovery of Judgment as a Separate Faculty of the Mind3 Difference Between Reasoning and Judging; 4 The Role of Taste, Imagination and Feelings; 5 How to Validate Our Feelings of Taste?; 6 From Arendtś Theory of Judgment to a Spiritual-Based Practice of Leadership; 7 Leader as Facilitator of Good Judgment: Story of Oticon; 8 Conclusion; References; Perspectives of Saint John Chrysostom for the VUCA World; 1 Introduction; 2 Why Chrysotomś Work Is Pertinent for a Mindfulness-VUCA Analysis?; 3 The Integrative Mindfulness Program; 3.1 An Anthropological Anchorage. 3.2 A First Step: Get Lucidity: New Vision3.3 A Second Step: Get Discernment by Identifying Virtues and Passions in Management; 3.3.1 Example of Natural Passion: Anger; 3.3.2 Example of a Non-natural Passion: Greed; 3.4 A Third Step: Get Wisdom by Practice and Exercises: The Nepsis Manager; 4 Conclusions; References; Making Sense of Organizational Change in Times of Dynamic Complexity: Change Managerialism and Reflexivity; 1 Introduction; 2 The Dominant Logic of Change Managerialism; 3 Case Illustration: ServiceCo; 3.1 Research Design; 3.2 Empirical Context; 4 Enacting Change Managerialism. 4.1 Instrumental Rationality4.1.1 Categorization, Uniformity, and Standardization; 4.1.2 Assumption of Fixed Reality/Stability; 4.1.3 Assumption of Homogeneity; 4.1.4 McDonaldization; 4.2 Grandiose Change Discourse; 4.2.1 `Professional ́Discourse; 4.2.2 Discursive Amplification of Change; 4.2.3 Repackaging of Emptiness; 4.2.4 Reduction of Complexity to Simplicity; 4.2.5 Crisis and Market Pressure Rhetoric; 5 Impact of Change Managerialism on Sense-Making Micro-Processes; 5.1 Colonization of Lifeworld; 5.2 De-familiarization; 5.3 Discursive Disconnection. 5.4 Suppression of Reflexive Capabilities6 Conclusion: The Role of Reflexivity in a VUCA Context; References; Living and Leading in a VUCA World: Response-Ability and People of Faith; 1 Introduction; 2 Globalization and the VUCA World; 3 Religion: A Source of Grievances or the Power to Heal?; 4 Living and Leading in the VUCA World: Unity in Diversity; 5 Paradox and Contradictions: The Seedbed for Engaging in the VUCA World?; 6 Management Education as a Catalyst for Transformation; 7 Conclusion; References.
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Springer
• Publication Date: 2017
• Copyright Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 650; Business; Organizational behavior; Management -- Employee participation; Adjustment (Psychology); BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Management; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Reference; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Skills; Adjustment (Psychology); Management -- Employee participation; Organizational behavior; Business and Management; Human Resource Management; Organization; Faith, Spirituality and Business; Business Strategy/Leadership; Business & Economics -- Strategic Planning; Business & Economics -- Business Ethics; Organizational theory & behaviour; Business ethics & social responsibility; Business strategy; Management science; Personnel management; Organization; Leadership; Business & Economics -- Human Resources & Personnel Management; Personnel & human resources management; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319522319; 3319522310
• Related ISBNs: 9783319522302; 3319522302
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Vendor-supplied metadata.
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