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Existentialism and Organization Theory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 May 2020

Yearn H. Choi*
Affiliation:
Jackson State University

Extract

The field of organization theory includes the individual human being, small group, human institution, and entire social system. Existential writings are concerned with individual morality, authenticity, human selfactualization and the same time with cognitive and intellectual variables which are relevant to human growth. Existentialism provides some very useful insight to the conventional organization theory. Existential literature explores the shrinking of consciousness, the blocking off of awareness, and feelings of depersonalization and apathy. Students express their discontent to the depersonalizing effects of the modern organization, society and bureaucratic world of their lives, and their community. Public administrators face scientific management on points where the nature of the matter is not rational. If help is to be found, it may very well come from poets and writers who often deal with the limits of rational certainty.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © American Political Science Association 1981

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