Sievers, Burkard,  1942- <br/><br/>
Work, death, and life itself :  essays on management and organization / 
Burkard Sievers. 
 - Berlin ;  New York :  Walter de Gruyter,  1994, c1993. 
 - xviii, 346 p. ;  24 cm. 
 - De Gruyter studies in organization : organizational theory and research ;  51 .
 - De Gruyter studies in organization ;  51. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-340) and index. 
<br/><br/>I. Motivation as a Surrogate for Meaning. Motivation as Invention. Beyond Motivation. Fragmentation and Splitting. Work and the Loss of Meaning. Meaning beyond Surrogates -- II. Participation as a Collusive Quarrel about Immortality. Participation as a Quarrel. Participation as a Process of Mutual Collusion. Participation as a Collusive Quarrel. Participation as a Quarrel about Immortality. Beyond Collusion: Participation among Mortals -- III. Leadership as a Perpetuation of Immaturity. Introduction: Discontent with Contemporary Leadership Research. Leadership Between Reification and Deification. Towards a De-reification and De-deification of Leadership. Leadership as a Myth. The Mythology of Leadership. Leadership as a Perpetuation of Immaturity. Maturity and Immaturity. Maturity and our Adult Roots in Immaturity. Towards a New Myth of Management. Leadership as the Management of Meaning -- IV. The Management of Wisdom. Excursus on the Category of Wisdom. Wisdom as a Modality of Experience. The Dialectical Function of Wisdom. The Experience of Nothingness. From Leadership Style to a Culture of Wisdom. The Range of Wisdom and its Impact on Management Development. 
<br/><br/> This unusual and thought-provoking work questions current mainstream approaches to organizational psychology. Grounded in organizational symbolism the author depicts the potential meaning of work in the broader context of life and death. Thus Siever's book is a fundamental critique of motivation, participation and leadership research. With human mortality in mind, organization and management appear in a different light: motivation as a surrogate for meaning, participation and management as a quarrel about immortality, and leadership as a perpetuation of immaturity. Sievers advocates a "management of wisdom" 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>3110138697 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Corporate culture.<br/>Employee motivation.<br/>Management--Employee participation.<br/>Leadership.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>658  / SIE