Handbook of Organizational and Managerial Wisdom

Eric H. Kessler, James R. Bailey

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Year: 2007
• Print ISBN: 9781412915618
• eBook ISBN: 9781452261775
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Business Ethics
• Index: Business

"A brilliant and comprehensive introduction to the most seminal component of leadership: wisdom. The diversity of the readings and wisdom of the authors make this a most original and valuable addition to the management canon."

—Warren Bennis, Distinguished Professor of Management, University of Southern California and author of On Becoming a Leader

"This wonderful compilation proves that management is as much art as science, and that deep thinking can inform and inspire practice to be more humane, ethical, and, yes, wise."

—Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Harvard Business School Professor and best-selling author of Confidence: How Winning Streaks and Losing Streaks Begin and End

"If you?ll forgive a pun, this is a wise book about organizational and managerial wisdom. It shows what?s possible when some of our best thinkers turn their collective attention to such timely subjects as EQ, negotiation, global politics, and individual and organizational ethics."

—Steve Kerr, Chief Learning Officer, Goldman Sachs, and Past President of the Academy of Management

"One of the ?most promising? forthcoming management books."

—EUROPEAN ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT

"To wade into the topic wisdom is to see organizing differently. To wade into this volume is to see wisdom differently. Both forms of effort embody a wonderful moment of wisdom itself."

–Karl E. Weick, Distinguished Professor of Organizational Behavior and Psychology,University of Michigan

Some interesting issues emerge when one views organizations from a wisdom-based perspective. Does technology promote or inhibit wisdom? How do HR systems, organizational forms, management practices, and operational capabilities relate to wisdom? What are the ethical and social dimensions of wisdom? What makes a wise leader? Can wisdom be developed and utilized strategically? Do conceptions and manifestations of wisdom vary across cultures? Can one teach wisdom?

Editors Eric Kessler and James Bailey have produced a ground-breaking compendium of globally renowned thinkers in the Handbook of Organizational and Managerial Wisdom. This Handbook systematically explores the characteristics of understanding, applying, and developing organizational and managerial wisdom.

Key Features

• Organizes wisdom around the five primary philosophical branches—logic, ethics, aesthetics, epistemology, and metaphysics
• Applies wisdom in organizations and management through international examples that synthesize a set of practical principles for academics and practicing managers
• Offers an outstanding collection of world-renowned scholars who give profound insights regarding wisdom

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Foreword
• Introduction: Understanding, Applying, and Developing Organizational and Managerial Wisdom
• PART I: Logic
• 1 - Individual Logic: Wisdom in Organizations: A Balance Theory Analysis
• 2 - Interpersonal Logic: Team Wisdom: Definition, Dynamics, and Applications
• 3 - Organizational Logic: Institutionalizing Wisdom in Organizations
• 4 - Strategic Logic: Toward a Wisdom-Based Approach to Strategic Management
• PART II: Ethics
• 5 - Individual Ethics: The Virtue of Prudence
• 6 - Interpersonal Ethics: The Wise Negotiator
• 7 - Organizational Ethics: Acting Wisely While Facing Ethical Dilemmas in Leadership
• 8 - Strategic Ethics: Strategy, Wisdom, and Stakeholder Theory: A Pragmatic and Entrepreneurial View of Stakeholder Strategy
• PART III: Aesthetics
• 9 - Individual Aesthetics: Self-Interest
• 10 - Interpersonal Aesthetics: Emotional and Social Intelligence Competencies Are Wisdom in Practice
• 11 - Organizational Aesthetics: Aesthetics and Wisdom in the Practice of Organization Development
• 12 - Strategic Aesthetics: Wisdom and Human Resource Management
• PART IV: Epistemology
• 13 - Individual Epistemology: Interpretive Wisdom
• 14 - Interpersonal Epistemology: Wisdom, Culture, and Organizations
• 15 - Organizational Epistemology: Interpersonal Relations in Organizations and the Emergence of Wisdom
• 16 - Strategic Epistemology: Innovation and Organizational Wisdom
• PART V: Metaphysics
• 17 - Individual Metaphysics: The Getting of Wisdom: Self-Conduct, Personal Identity, and Wisdom Across the Life Span
• 18 - Interpersonal Metaphysics: “We Live in a Political World”: The Paradox of Managerial Wisdom
• 19 - Organizational Metaphysics: Global Wisdom and the Audacity of Hope
• 20 - Strategic Metaphysics: Can Wisdom Be Taught?
• PART VI: Synthesizing Commentary
• 21 - Wisdom: Objectivism as the Proper Philosophy for Living on Earth
• 22 - Wisdom as Learned Ignorance: Integrating East–West Perspectives
• Name Index
• Subject Index
• About the Editors
• About the Contributors