Gower Business Handbooks: A Handbook of Practical Wisdom - Leadership, Organization and Integral Business Practice

Editors: Kupers, Wendelin and Pauleen, David
Publication Year: 2013
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing

Single-User Purchase Price: $119.95
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ISBN: 978-1-40-943993-6
Category: Business, Finance & Economics - Business
Image Count: 12
Book Status: Available
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The Handbook of Practical Wisdom presents a critically informed understanding of wise practices, contributing to more integrative organizational and leadership studies and practice. The focus on integration emphasises the interdependencies of practical wisdom in relation to members, groups and cultures of organisations in their socio-cultural spheres.

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Table of Contents

  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgement
  • Introducing a Handbook of Practical Wisdom for Our Times
  • Chapter 1 The Art of Practical Wisdom: Phenomenology of an Embodied, Wise ‘Inter-practice’ in Organization and Leadership Wendelin M. Küpers
  • Chapter 2 Phrónêsis in Action: A Case Study Approach to a Professional Learning Group Claire Jankelson
  • Chapter 3 Cultivation of Wisdom in the Theravada Buddhist Tradition: Implications for Contemporary Leadership and Organization Peter Case
  • Chapter 4 Being a Wise Organizational Researcher: Ontology, Epistemology and Axiology David Rooney
  • Chapter 5 ‘Wise Women or Caring Women’: the Paradoxical Nature of the Representation of Women in Management Maree Boyle and Amanda Roan
  • Chapter 6 Evaluating the Process of Wisdom in Wise Political Leaders Using a Developmental Wisdom Model Roberto Biloslavo and Bernard McKenna
  • Chapter 7 Transformation and Transcendence for Wisdom: The Emergence and Sustainment of Wise Leaders and Organizations Jay Hays
  • Chapter 8 Students of Wisdom: An Integral Meta-competencies Theory of Practical Wisdom Ali Intezari and David J. Pauleen
  • Chapter 9 University Presidents as Wise Leaders? Aristotle's Phrónêsis and Academic Leadership in Germany Bernd Kleimann
  • Chapter 10 Wisdom and Integrity: Metatheoretical Perspectives on Integrative Change in an Age of Turbulence Mark G. Edwards