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The Company Democracy Model
Creating Innovative Democratic Work Cultures for Effective Organizational Knowledge-Based Management and Leadership
Evangelos Markopoulos, Hannu Vanharanta
- 396 pages
- English
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The Company Democracy Model
Creating Innovative Democratic Work Cultures for Effective Organizational Knowledge-Based Management and Leadership
Evangelos Markopoulos, Hannu Vanharanta
About This Book
Company democracy is often misunderstood in the business context as democracy is usually related to politics. In this book, the authors present a different dimension. They focus first on democracy from an organizational culture perspective and then offer employees opportunities to understand and apply democracy from the company floor level.
The Company Democracy Model (CDM) is an industry-wide, practical methodology for knowledge management utilization under applied philosophical thinking. The model progresses through a framework in which an organizational evolutionary spiral method empowers the creation of knowledge-based democratic cultures for wise and effective strategic management and leadership. This new innovative methodology, supported with techniques and processes, can gain/create many ideas, insights, innovations, new products, and services that can benefit a company.
One purpose of using the model is to create a robust conceptual framework as a theoretical basis for a business strategy that promotes sustainable, continuous, and democratic development. Another purpose is to emphasize the importance of intellectual capital and compare capital-related and human-related business issues in shaping a company's competitiveness, profitability, productivity, performance, and shared value. A third purpose is to use its symbolic infrastructure that builds solid democratic systems for viable business development and management. Finally, the described purposes give the reader new ideas to change and improve the design of business activities in a collective and modern democratic way.
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1 APPLIED PHILOSOPHY
Chapter 1 Science and Theory Precede Practice: A Scientific Framework for the Applied Philosophy Approach in Management and Leadership
Executive Summary
1.1 Introduction
- How do you keep the system in operation through full and free communication, regardless of rank and power?
- How do you reach and improve the reliance on consensus in the decision-making process?
- How do you appreciate how technical competence and knowledge can influence change without any whims or prerogatives of power?
- How do you encourage people to express their emotional intelligence and their task-oriented behavior?
- How do you minimize the inevitable conflict between organizations and individuals? (cf. Slater, Bennis, 1990)
1.2 Creation of the Scientific Framework
1.2.1 Scientific Background (âEpistemeâ)
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Series
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Authors
- Book Structure
- SECTION 1 APPLIED PHILOSOPHY
- SECTION 2 HUMAN FOCUS IN LIVING SYSTEMS
- SECTION 3 THE COMPANY DEMOCRACY MODEL
- Conclusions
- Glossary
- Index