Aesthetics Organization and Humanistic Management

<p>This book is a reaction to the reductionist and exploitative ideas dominating the mainstream contemporary management discourse and practice and an attempt to broaden the horizons of possibility for both managers and organization scholars. It brings together the scholarly fields of humanistic management and organizational aesthetics where the former brings in the unshakeable focus on the human condition and concern for dignity emancipation and the common good while the latter promotes reflection openness and appreciation for irreducible complexity of existence. It is a journey towards wholeness undertaken by a collective of management and organization theorists philosophers artists and art curators.</p><p>Reading this book’s contributions can help both academics and practitioners work towards building organizational practices aimed at (re)acquiring wholeness by developing aesthetic awareness allowing for more profound understandings of performativity insights into the dynamics of power appreciation of ambiguity and ambivalence and a much needed grasp of complexity. The varied ways of engaging with art explored by the authors promote imaginative insights into and reflection on the beauty and vicissitudes of organizing of management knowledge and collective expression.</p><p>It will be of interest to researchers academics practitioners and students in the fields of organizational theory and practice business and management history human resource management and culture management.</p>