Heidegger and Executive Education: The Management of Time

ISBN-13: 9781138211896 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 222 str.

Toby Thompson

Opis

Global corporations, and the senior executives within them, have been subject to great criticism in recent times, not only because corporations hold extreme concentrations of wealth, but also because they continue to sanction staggering pay inequalities between the haves and the have-nots. At the same time, university-based business schools are conducting programmes of executive education seemingly customised to sanction these same inequalities. Heidegger and Executive Education is a piece of critical philosophy that has been written from within the business school in order to examine how this sheltered process of educating in-role corporate executives operates. In this book, Thompson claims that executive education is based on a very simple premise: that an executive executes an order, and that executive education is an amelioration of that process. Thompson argues that the easiest way to conceive of executive education is to treat order and execution as cognates, as a single conceptual entity. Thus, he asks, if educating executives in line with the order-execution cognate involves swapping the boardroom for the classroom, and in keeping with the 'critical' tag, shouldn't executive education be about questioning not only the execution, but the dominant order? This book will use 'time' as the philosophical method by which to undo the order-execution cognate, as a way to question the sanctity of the cognate and thereby halt the seemingly inexorable temporal sequence from order through to those orders becoming executed. In order to mount a philosophical challenge to the temporal sequentiality of executive education, this book will use Martin Heidegger's exotic philosophy of time and will therefore be of great interest to academics, researchers and postgraduates who are interested in Heidegger, the philosophy of education and executive education. It should also be essential reading for those involved in training, developing, and educating corporate executives.

Spis treści

Preface  Acknowledgements  1. Introduction  2. The False Necessity of Executive Orders  3. Death and the Executionless-Execution  4. Anxiety is Nothing  5. No Time for Boredom  6. The Gods of Technology  7. Being Mindful of History  8. The Event of Appropriation  9. Ideal Romantic Remainders  10. Considerations

O autorze

Toby Thompson is the Networked Learning Director at the Centre for Customised Executive Development, Cranfield University School of Management.