Mindful unlearning in unprecedented times: Implications for management and organizations. Issue 5 (November 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Vu, Mai Chi; Nguyen, Loi A
• Is Part Of: Management learning. Volume 53:Issue 5(2022)
• Page Start: 797
• Page End: 817
• Publication Date: 2022-11
• Subjects: Crisis management -- mindfulness -- unlearning; Industrial management -- Study and teaching -- Periodicals; Executives -- Training of -- Periodicals; Organizational learning -- Periodicals; Knowledge management -- Periodicals; 302.35
• DOI: 10.1177/13505076211060433
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1461-7307

Abstract

Crises trigger both learning and unlearning at both intra-organizational and inter-organizational levels. This article stresses the need to facilitate unlearning for effective crisis management and shows how we could use mindfulness practice to enhance unlearning and transformative learning in a crisis. This study proposes the conceptualization of mindful unlearning in crisis with different mechanisms to foster unlearning in three stages of crisis (pre-crisis, during-crisis, and post-crisis). These mechanisms include mindful awareness of impermanence and sensual processing (pre-crisis stage), mindful awareness of interdependence and right intention (crisis management stage), and mindful awareness of transiency and past experiences (post-crisis stage).