Spiritual Motivation: New Thinking for Business and Management

ISBN-13: 9780230542914 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 217 str.

Jeremy Ramsden; Shuhei Aida; Andrew Kakabadse

Opis

Spiritual Motivation draws on centuries of Japanese tradition in honourable behaviour, comparing and contrasting it with developments in the West, to create a new approach powerful enough to meet the challenges of operating in today's global business environment.

Spis treści

PART I. CORE ELEMENTS Contemporary Challenges to Sustainable Industrial Civilization; H. Takenaka The Book of Five Concepts for Management; S.Aida A View of Bushido; M.Shinagawa Chivalry; J.Ramsden Christianity; L.Denny Complexity and Identity: The Evolution of Collective Self; P.Allen PART II. SYNTHESIS New Thinking: A Synthesis; J.Ramsden Bushido in the IT Era; K.Hamada & Y.Ujiie PART III. A SPIRITUAL METHOD BASED ON BUSHIDO The Road to the Spiritual Mind for Entrepreneurs; M.Koyanagi "Shin-shin-toitsu-ho" for Dynamic Meditation; T.Ono PART IV. PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS EcoDesign and Human Media; S. Aida Eco-design and Sustainability; W.Batty Corporate Social Responsibility and Business Decision-making; S. Knox The Need for Spirituality in the Public Sphere; N.Kakabadse , P.Collins & A.Kakabadse Creating a Sustained Performance Improvement; P.Hunter Epilogue; S.Aida, J.Ramsden & A. Kakabadse

O autorze

JEREMY RAMSDEN is Professor of Nanotechnology at Cranfield University, UK, and Director of Research at Cranfield University at Kitakyushu, prior to which he was a member of the Faculty of Natural Philosophy at the University of Basel. Previous books include The New World Order (1991) and Bioinformatics: an Introduction (2004). He has published about 150 research articles, and is Editor-in-Chief of Nanotechnology Perceptions

ANDREW KAKABADSE is Professor of International Management Development at Cranfield School of Management, UK, and the H. Smith Richardson Fellow at CCL, North Carolina, USA. His research covers boards, top teams and the governance of governments. He has published twenty-six books, 169 articles and sixteen monographs, and is co-editor of the Journal of Management Development and Corporate Governance: International Journal of Business in Society.

SHUHEI AIDA is Chairman and CEO of the Human Media Foundation in Japan, professor emeritus at the University of Electro-Communications in Tokyo, Director-General of Cranfield University Japan Centre and visiting Professor at Cranfield University, UK. He has published about 150 research papers and thirty books in the fields of system engineering, information technology and global environmental issues, and has received the Mainichi Cultural and Publishing Award. He has been decorated 'AL MERITO DELLA REPUBBLICA ITALIANA' by the President of Italy.