Valerie Myers

Conversations about Calling

Advancing Management Perspectives

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Conversations About Calling explores management perspectives on the concept of a calling to work. Using Max Weber's seminal book, Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, as a starting point, Myers seeks to enrich management perspectives on calling by integrating the contributions of other disciplines to the literature.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780415507455
• ISBN-10: 0415507456
• Artikelnr.: 36812019

Autorenporträt

Valerie L. Myers, PhD, is a faculty member at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business at Ann Arbor, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface 1. Conversations about Calling I. Management
Conversations About Calling, 1980-2012 2. Secular-Individualistic Calling
3. Transcendent Calling 4. Sacred Calling 5. Calling in the Iron Cage II.
Other Conversations About Calling 6. Practitioner Perspectives (1980-2012):
The Essence of Calling 7. Case Example: Unthinkable 8. Practitioner
Perspectives (1980-2012): Calling in Business 9. Ideologies & Industrialism
(16th to 21st Centuries) III. Connecting Conversations in Theory and
Practice 10. A Cross-cultural Theory of Calling 11. Case Study: Not Your
Average Working Joe 12. Cultivating Calling in Emerging and Established
Adults